from the Daily Chart of The Economist online:

An alternative timeline for the past two millennia

SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Others tell history from below, arguing that one person's life is just as much a part of mankind's story as another's. If people do make history, as this democratic view suggests, then two people make twice as much history as one. Since there are almost 7 billion people alive today, it follows that they are making seven times as much history as the 1 billion alive in 1811. The chart shows a population-weighted history of the past two millennia. By this reckoning, over 28% of all the history made since the birth of Christ was made in the 20th century. Measured in years lived, the present century, which is only ten years old, is already "longer" than the whole of the 17th century. This century has made an even bigger contribution to economic history. Over 23% of all the goods and services made since 1AD were produced from 2001 to 2010...

Some Joseph Nechvatal drawings from the 1980s

The audio is a Nechvatal audio collages from the 1980s: "Bung Juice." It appeared on Empty Shadows: Sound of Pig cassette 1987 (SOP 90)

hermapOrnOlOgy OvOid maxism

From:
DIGITAL BRUSHSTROKES:
DIVERSE TECHNIQUES IN CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL PAINTING

By
Michelle A. Tavano

A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Master of Arts
with a concentration in Media Studies
in the Department of Art

lOng rear view
by Joseph Nechvatal

all paintings (2010-11) by Joseph Nechvatal

Stephane Sikora : C++ programming

audio:

"pOstmOrtem"

From the New York Times:

June 28, 2011 BEIJING — Ai Weiwei, the artist and government critic who was released last week from nearly three months in police custody, is facing almost $2 million in fines and unpaid taxes, his mother and an associate said Tuesday.

Eye Full by Joseph Nechvatal

All art (2010) and audio (Ego Masher (1983)) by Joseph Nechvatal

Ego Masher appears on: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music /6- Sixth A-Chronology 1957-2010 [Disc 1]

from Reuters:

BEIJING | Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:34am EDT

(Reuters) - No talking, no tweeting and no travel for a year -- these are some of the conditions of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's release from more than two months in detention, underscoring Beijing's efforts to muzzle dissent.

The comprehensive gag on Ai, who is not allowed to post anything on Twitter or accept interviews for a year, raises questions about the Chinese government's repeated claims that his detention was based on economic crimes.

We send our best wishes to Ai Weiwei on his release from three months of Chinese government detention. We sincerely hope that he will be able to resume his activist role as provocateur, dissident and gadfly within China, continually offering a critique of the entrenched Communist Party bureaucracy.

Stephen Moreno and Austin Arnold discuss Joseph Nechvatal's cOncerning Abu Ghraib and Jasper Johns' Green Flag.