Dear digital culture,
I teach a course in theories of VR at the School of Visual Arts in
NYC. Now I am looking to augment this activity with guest lecture slots
based on my Ph.D. dissertation "Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances :
A Study of the Affinity Between Artistic Ideologies Based in Virtual
Reality and Previous Immersive Idioms". This dissertation was written
in candidacy for a Ph.D. at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the
Interactive Arts (CAiiA), University of Wales College, Newport, Wales,
U.K. My research into Virtual Reality technology - and its central
property of immersion - has indicated that immersion in Virtual Reality
electronic systems is a significant key to the understanding of
contemporary culture as well as considerable aspects of previous cultures
as detected in the histories of philosophy and the visual arts.
The introduction to the thesis, entitled "Frame and Excess", can be read
on-line at: http://www.dom.de/groebel/jnech/ideals.htm
I hope that you at digital culture find it of interest and that you might
know where I might deliver a workshop based on my research.
Please let me know if you think such a workshop / lecture might be possible
somewhere at email: [log in to unmask]
Best Regards,
Joseph Nechvatal
143 Ludlow Street (14)
New York, NY
10002 USA
and
1, Rue Pecquay
75004 Paris FRANCE
Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual information
and computer-robotics since 1986. His computer-robotic assisted paintings
and computer animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums
throughout the world. He has recently worked as artist in-resident at the
Louis Pasteur studio and the Ledoux Foundation's computer lab in Arbois,
France on 'The Computer Virus Project': an experiment with computer viruses
as a creative stratagem. He is collected by the Los Angeles County Museum,
the Moderna Musset in Stockholm, Sweden and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Nechvatal's work was included in Documenta 8. His www site is at:
http://www.dom.de/arts/artists/jnech/
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Joseph Nechvatal
http://www.dom.de/groebel/jnech/
http://www.dom.de/groebel/jnech/ideals.htm
http://www.cybertheque.fr/galerie/jnech
"all history is really the history of perception"
-Deleuze/Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
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