Joseph Nechvatal

° 1951

Born in Chicago (US).

Artist bio

Joseph Nechvatal is an American painter/writer currently living in Paris. His book of essays Towards an Immersive Intelligence (2009) was published by Edgewise Press. He has also published three books with Punctum Press: Minóy (ed.) (2014), Destroyer of Naivetés (poetry, 2015) and Styling Sagaciousness (poetry, 2022). His book of art theory, Immersion Into Noise, was re-published in 2022 in a second edition by Open Humanities Press. His audio works, Selected Sound Works (2021), The Viral Tempest (2022) and Ex Stasis 69 (2025) have been published by Pentiments Records and in 2025 he joined the esteemed Table of the Elements avant-garde record label with two CD/book releases: (Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) and Marriage of Orlando and Artaud, Even). In November/December of 2025 his art exhibition Information Noise Saturation is on view at the Magenta Plains art gallery in New York City. Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God (2025) is the sequel to Nechvatal’s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ venus© ~ Ñ ~ vibrator, even novella (1995/2023). 

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The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

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