I am very happy to announce that I have joined the Table of the Elements roster of artists/musicians with TWO book/CD releases coming this Fall: Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) and The Marriage of Orlando and Artaud, Even. Thanxs tableoftheelements #tableoftheelementsrecords

1994 Computer Virus Project spread in Bomb Magazine (Winter)

Nuclear Winter (1981) 14x17" graphite on paper: an early No Wave drawing of mine is going on auction on Thursday (26th) for a good cause at the 2025 White Columns Benefit Auction. Here is the online bid space: whitecolumns.org/artwork-benefi… #nowave #drawing #nechvatal #josephnechvatal

If you can, please help Kickstart the Table of the Elements avant-garde record label membership drive relaunch HERE: kickstarter.com/projects/tote/… Table of the Elements is a rigorous curatorial network and publishing platform, lauded by Pitchfork as “a national treasure.”

Because: Divine by Marcia Resnick

At squat U122AE noise music duo Forceps performed last night at Nicolas Ballet's launch of his comprehensive and image full English-edition book Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music that has just been published by Intellect Books IntellectBooks.

My artificial life assisted painting Orlando in the Briar Patch (2019) 30x30cm is in the GALERIE RICHARD summer group show, entitled Made in France, that runs from July 5th to July 26th. When in Le Marais, stop in at 74 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris.

Hmmm (1984) 47x115.5 cm, private collection in L.A.

Cool this painting is part of The Mirror Effect, a conceptual art history exhibition at Château de Montsoreau of Contemporary Art @CmontsoreauMuseum curated by Lara Pan. Celebrating 60 years of the pioneering collective Art & Language, it runs from July 11 – Nov 3.

My book review of More Fugitive than Light: Poems of Rome, Venice, Paris, 2016-2017 by Richard Milazzo & Daniel Rothbart has been published at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art Noah Becker/Whitehot Magazine - the best art here: whitehotmagazine.com/articles/rome-…

My 30x60cm computer-robotic assisted painting Sashaying Orlando on the Moonlight (2018) part of The Mirror Effect conceptual art history exhibition at Château de Montsoreau, Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Lara Pan. July 11 – Nov 3, 2025 in Montsoreau, France.

My Review of the Rick Owens: Temple of Love show at Palais Galliera Palais Galliera has been published at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art here: whitehotmagazine.com/articles/furni… RICK OWENS

If in Paris this summer, drop by to see four of my computer-robotic assisted acrylic on canvas paintings hung in the Made in France summer exhibition at Galerie Richard, 74 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris. GALERIE RICHARD

Robert Raushenberg, Surface Series from Currents (1970) 35x35" edition of 100, collection Joseph Nechvatal #RobertRaushenberg

Melian relief of Herakles killing the centaur Nessos (middle of the 5th c.BC) from a grave at Troizen now preserved at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus

studio hang of ~eO feerique fOrtune cOde meets the Computer Virus Project 2.0~ (2001) six 22x10” stacked computer-robotic assisted acrylic paintings on canvas that show the progression of one of my artificial life viral attacks.

RIP Robert Wilson ~ who made our world a much more interesting place. My 2013 review of the Robert Wilson show at the Louvre was published at hyperallergic here: hyperallergic.com/98736/blowing-… image: Shaker Chair from Robert Wilson, Living Rooms, Louvre Paris 2013 #robertwilson

Ravished 1½ Trillion Faces Upturned, 1½ Trillion Tongues Wagged, 1½ Trillion Dollars Spent (1981) 11x14" graphite on paper

One of my first pieces of creative writing was published in 8 pages in my long hand in WhiteWall #3 in 1979. This is page 4/5.

Very happy to announce my upcoming exhibition at Magenta Plains titled Information Noise Saturation November 6–December 20, 2025 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 6–8 PM Without Chains (1990) 267x203cm computer-robotic assisted acrylic painting on canvas