Here are two short extracts from the Viral Venture project (2009) for demonstration purposes.

Viral Venture is a digital art projection (and/or ongoing installation) by the artist Joseph Nechvatal with a musical score by the composer Rhys Chatham.

The Viral Venture projection consists of Nechvatal's most recent artificial-life computer virus attacking his digital images. It acts in real time as modeled on the biological viral mode as programmed by Stephane Sikora in C++.

Rhys Chatham's score consists of his 2005 composition for 400 electric guitars, entitled A Crimson Grail, commissioned by Nuit Blanche. It was performed and recorded at the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris. The score is looped so that the projection can run for an indefinite length of time without disruption.

cybersex novella ‘~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©-~Ñ~vibrator, even’ was written during my artist-in-residency at the Cite des Art International in Paris during 1995. I edited it to this final version in NYC in 1999.

Journal of Contemporary Art (Fall) 1992

PDF file attached of Philip Pocock "Interview with Joseph Nechvatal" from the Journal of Contemporary Art 1992

Publication of Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances

Joseph Nechvatal

Viral Art: consciousness in concurrency with mutation http://thefishpond.in/himanshudamle/2009/viral-art/
by Himanshu Damle

Towards an Immersive IntelligencePublished by EDGEWISE PRESS

Towards an Immersive Intelligence: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality
(1993-2006)

by Joseph Nechvatal

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Price of regular editions: $10.00 each.

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