Joseph Nechvatal

The Profile

Joseph Nechvatal is an American artist known for computer-assisted generative visual and sound works, including the album Viral symphOny.

Works often use custom software and generative processes; the reviewed album Viral symphOny is described as a 1 hour 40 minute work generated using C++ and intended to give voice to the computer.

The available review treats Joseph Nechvatal's Viral symphOny as a machine-originated, unsettling generative work. The reviewer finds it fascinating, disturbing, and hard to categorize. The album is described as lasting around 1h40 and generated in C++.