Joseph Nechvatal
Paris, France
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1 recording / 24 times speaking / 18 mentions / 3 exhibitions
About this artist
Joseph Nechvatal (born January 15, 1951) is an American post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom computer viruses.
Source: Wikipedia, “Joseph Nechvatal”, text available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Retrieved 24 September 2026.
Exhibitions and collaborations
- Techspressionism: Digital & Beyond (Southampton Arts Center)
Joseph Nechvatal, Viral Venture , 2009. Digital video, 480 × 360 pixels. Duration 51:37. Musical score by the composer Rhys Chatham. NFS.
Exhibition artist profile ↗
From the exhibition pages on techspressionism.com. "Watch on YouTube" opens the exhibition reel at this artist's entry (a separate video from the archive recordings, so it opens on YouTube itself).
Speaking in the archive
Newest first. WATCH opens that recording here in the archive, at the turn quoted.
Mentioned by others
- “… also this idea, like, I've often talked about this idea of social sculpture, which I was introduced to by Joseph Nechvatal, who's one of the People involved in Techspressionism early on, and I think Loop is also a social sculpture …”WATCH1:34:55
Colin Goldberg · Salon 110 · September 3, 2026 - “Joseph Nechvatal is an artist whose work I first saw again in 1986, seemed to be a big year at Brook Alexander Gallery.”WATCH06:44
Gregory Little · Presentation 4 · May 18, 2026 - “Where I met Patrick, and it was actually Joseph Nechvatal that recommended that place to me, because he said, you know, I have this friend and colleague, Greg Little, who teaches there, and then, you know, I found out two things.”WATCH46:17
Colin Goldberg · Interview 29 · December 8, 2025
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- “And Joseph Nechvatal, like…”WATCH44:56
Colin Goldberg · Interview 29 · December 8, 2025 - “It reminded me of Joseph Nechvatal's work, who he's a friend, and he's also been involved with the group with Techspressionism for a while.”WATCH1:12:32
Colin Goldberg · Salon 97 · August 7, 2025 - “But Joseph Nechvatal came to visit Queens College when I was a graduate student there, and he told me the most important thing to a sustainable life as an artist was not selling your work.”WATCH14:55
Tommy Mintz · Salon 94 · May 1, 2025 - “Joseph Nechvatal is A digital artist who's on one of the screens here, and I'm doing a bad job giving a tour of the exhibition and talking through it.”WATCH14:46
Tommy Mintz · Salon 94 · May 1, 2025 - “When I was in graduate school, Joseph Nechvatal came to visit and let's see through the Joseph Nechvatal right here.”WATCH14:33
Tommy Mintz · Salon 94 · May 1, 2025 - “We have Joseph Nechvatal over here.”WATCH36:01
Tommy Mintz · Salon 86 · September 5, 2024 - “So we have books by Victor Acevedo, Davonte Bradley, Holly Gordon, Patrick Lichty, DJ Spooky, Steve Miller, Joseph Nechvatal, and Spalter and Sasha Stiles.”WATCH1:23:22
Jaime Bautista · Salon 71 · June 7, 2023 - “Miller, aka DJ Spooky, Steve Miller, Joseph Nechvatal, Michael Rees, Christine Schooley, Nina Sobell, Anne Spalter, and Nina Yankowitz.”WATCH06:10
Colin Goldberg · Roundtable 1 · October 3, 2022 - “There is an artist, Joseph Nechvatal, who's sort of he hasn't been to a salon, but he was one of the people that his interviews on the page on expressionism.”WATCH1:02:18
Colin Goldberg · Salon 36 · February 2, 2022 - “Joseph Nechvatal.”WATCH06:54
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid · Salon 18 · May 25, 2021 - “ito Well, Joseph Nechvatal was the guy that connected me to Greg and then, you know, and then I found out that Bowling Green had this …”WATCH26:55
Colin Goldberg · Interview 11 · April 6, 2021 - “So this is actually an idea that was introduced to me by another artist member of ours, Joseph Nechvatal, who is really a pioneer in digital art and new media art.”WATCH36:36
Colin Goldberg · Interview 1 · January 22, 2021 - “And his name is Joseph Nechvatal.”WATCH45:59
Colin Goldberg · Salon 8 · January 5, 2021 - “I'm here with Joseph Nechvatal, technology artist and writer.”WATCH00:07
Colin Goldberg · Interview 4 · 2000 - “Here I am with Joseph Nechvatal.”WATCH00:00
Colin Goldberg · Interview 4 · 2000
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