Joseph Nechvatal

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Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal (* 1951 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American conceptual artist .

life and work

Nechvatal studied art history and art from 1974 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale , from 1974 to 1975 at Cornell University and from 1977 to 1978 at Columbia University .

In 1985 and 1986 Joseph Nechvatal was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts . Since 1986 he has been working in the field of computer-controlled painting and sound art at the interface of traditional and new media .

His dissertation was entitled: A Study of the Affinity Between Artistic Ideologies Based in Virtual Reality and Previous Immersive Idioms .

“Like the fax machine , Nechvatal exchanges material reality for time. He begins with original drawings (dots made of dust and charcoal), which are again reproductions of reproductions. Then he photographs the drawings (series of points and light) and finally enters them into a computer, which carries them out with the help of a robotic arm (points and electronics). "

- Claudia Gould

Nechvatal is a professor at the School of Visual Arts and the Stevens Institute of Technology .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 172; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  2. ↑ Dissertation Introduction to: Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances by Joseph Nechvatal , accessed on February 27, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ art and education Joseph Nechvatal ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on February 27, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artandeducation.net
personal data
SURNAME Nechvatal, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois