viral pOrtrait of Donald Kuspit (2005) is from Joseph Nechvatal's "Computer Virus Project 2.0" portrait series. This work follows along the same lines as previous viral works by Nechvatal from 1992 - works where an unpredictable progressive virus operates on a degradation/transformation of an image. Using a C++ framework, Joseph Nechvatal and his programmer/collaborator Stephane Sikora have brought Nechvatal's early computer virus project into the realm of artificial life (A-Life) (i.e. into a synthetic system that exhibits behaviors characteristic of natural living systems).
@Joseph Nechvatal 2005
@Joseph Nechvatal 2009
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