The first thing that I have heard about Nechvatal is his involvement with working with computers to create artwork. The reading starts out with just that, stating that the artist's work uses "computer-robotic assisted" paintings.
This sentence alone sparks my interest. As I have said before, I am minoring and have a high interest in computers, and most computer related things (including my involvement in this class). Since most artwork is in fact done by humans, this new idea of robot assisted paintings seems to be a wave from the future. Thinking more deeply about this idea, I am then curious to who is the "actual" artist, th painter or robot.
Continuing on in the reading, a form of virus-like program preforms "degradation and transformation of the image". This idea seems to be a three-step (or even three-artist) piece. Step 1 being the human artist, step 2 being the computer, and step 3 being this virus that manipulates the work. To describe the process the author starts out by explaining the file, traveling over the internet to "computer-driven robotic painting machine". The author describes that the artist himself is not involved in the painting. This again, relates me back to the idea of this piece of artwork being created by three "things".
Some of his works are intermixed with human body parts (usually intimate) and flowers or fruit. This reminds me of the relationship that the human artist has with the robot. It is as if his paintings are representing him (the human parts) and the robot is represented with the "non-living" (non-human) fruit and flower parts. This combination seems almost collage-like. As though, mixing the ideas of human (science) and virtual (technology).
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