long-time digital artist and writer Joseph Nechvatal updates me about his exhibition Contaminations in the Beecher Center of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. By programming randomized computer viruses which interact with the structure of a digital image, Nechvatal explores the dynamic and metaphoric interrelation between healthy host and the contaminations and mutations of viral attack. given the current excited state of global epidemic both virtual and carnal, these re-presentations exploring that intersection are especially relevant.