Joseph Nechvatal’s 1995 cybersex novella ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even is based on the idea that any form of sexual order is only temporary and that social gender is therefore in a permanent state of becoming. The American artist describes a political-spiritual matrix of possibilities – full of androgynous eroticism and flowery virtuality. Embedded in sounds by experimental artist Arcane Device, Nechvatal had the text read aloud by a computer voice during his art exhibition vOluptuary: an algorithmic hermaphornology at the Gallery Universal Concepts Unlimited (NYC) in 2003. It begins like this:
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