Cybernetic Futures
Online Art Exhibitions
Cyberception
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even
By
Joseph Nechvatal
Joseph Nechvatal’s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even (1995/2023) is both a novel and a digital artwork—a hallucinatory, techno-erotic immersive experience exploring the dissolution of love, identity, and desire at the dawn of the World Wide Web. The text unfolds as a performance of language, code, and consciousness, where the techno-goddess Venus presides over a cybernetic bacchanal of bodies, machines, and hybrid dry-and-moist media. Nechvatal’s writing merges philosophical critique and digital poiesis, blending sensuality, satire, and theory in a hypertextual world of erotic VR rituals and ecstatic abandon.
In this pioneering hybrid of art and literature, the artist extends his long-standing inquiry into the aesthetics of noise, AI, and viral systems—proposing a Venus love system, venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even that reimagines intimacy as a networked cybersex, and technoetic- cyberception of perpetual desire and transformation.
Curator's text by Dr Lila Moore
The audio tracks feature selected texts from the book, read by a computerized voice using the technologies available at the time.
Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even audio files are a selection from the 12 sound/text audio files created by Joseph Nechvatal in collaboration with David Lee Myers (aka Arcane Devise) in 2003. They draw from Nechvatal's cybersex farce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even text that Nechvatal wrote during his artist-in-residency at the Cite des Art International in Paris during 1995-96 and published as a book in 2023 by Orbis Tertius Press. These ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even audio tracks were first presented in concert in an audio computer reading during Nechvatal's art exhibition vOluptuary : an algorithic hermaphornology at Gallery Universal Concepts Unlimited (NYC) in the Spring of 2003.