The Final Warning

Drawing: graphite, charcoal, and oil stick on paper
11 x 14 inches
Date: 1983

Nechvatal uses his own manipulations of computer programs as the basis for what he calls his “robotically assisted” work. Here, the forms are based on patterns made by artficial organisms—computer viruses—programmed to use particular colors from a digital image they have “infected.”

All works by Joseph Nechvatal
Tours
To Have It About You: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Institution
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota

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