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Digital Art

Wolf Lieser, pioneer in the digital arts world, has written a new book titled Digital Art telling the history of the medium from its very early days until the present. Included in this publication are interviews, conversations, and essays from numerous figures in the digital art world. Wolf mentions Joseph Nechvatal in his text along with his imagery as a relative and considerable character in the field. The 276 page texts covers 3-D animations, video games, movies, the internet and more as valuable platforms for digital media as art. The book is available through Amazon.com.

Painting and Digital Video

Art collecting moguls Dorothy and Hebert Vogel personally amassed an extensive collection of contemporary art together as a couple starting with their first Picasso vase when they got engaged and have since added some 4,000 pieces to their estate. Without a venue to display the entire personal collection they have decided to disperse works of art to be exhibited in every state with the “Fifty Works for Fifty States” project, selecting a contemporarily relevant gallery or museum to temporarily house 50 selected works of art by various artists, including work from Joseph Nechvatal. Joseph’s work can be found at the group show “Herb and Dorothy: A Glimpse into Their Extraordinary Collection” at the Mississippi Museum of Art through September 12, 2010, open from 10-5 Tuesday-Saturday and noon-5 on Sunday.

Joseph is also having a solo exhibition entitled “Retinal Art Revisited: Story of the Eye” at Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard in Paris. The show will hang September 4^th-29^th with gallery hours posted Tuesday-Saturday 11-7. The show will include paintings accompanied with digital video regarding the relationship between audio and visual during the creative process.