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Digital artist.  Lives in Brooklyn, [[New York]]. His work is concerned with the relationship between technology and culture. Cory’s best known projects probably are his Nintendo game cartridge hacks and his sub-versive reworking of obsolete computer systems of the 70′s and 80′s. Cory’s work was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and has also been exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum. Blue “Tube” is a tiny but powerful structuralist intervention into the ubiquitous video sharing site YouTube – the one-second video turns the logo, which the company superimposes on all video embedded in other sites online, to blue. It is both a video and art work about YouTube as opposed to a video which treats YouTube as an invisible distribution system. It is a lighthearted critique of the popular file sharing system, as its users in-creasingly don’t notice or think about its structure.
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'''Cory Arcangel''' is an artist and composer living and working in [[Stavanger]], Norway. Arcangel explores the potential and failures of old and new digital technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Treating them as subject matter and medium, his practice interrogates, encodes and hacks the structural language of video games, software, social media and advertisement. With a background in classical guitar from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Arcangel's practice often incorporates a score-based approach and a keen interest in the history and cultural significance of electronic and pop music. His work has been exhibited widely and was subject of solo exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg (2022); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2012); The Barbican, London (2011); Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2015); Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2010) and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2005). [https://www.silent-green.net/en/programme/detail/2024/9/12/cory-arcangel-audmcrs (2024)]
  
Part of [[Beige]] artist collective.
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Arcangel Wikipedia]
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Latest revision as of 21:05, 5 January 2025

Cory Arcangel is an artist and composer living and working in Stavanger, Norway. Arcangel explores the potential and failures of old and new digital technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Treating them as subject matter and medium, his practice interrogates, encodes and hacks the structural language of video games, software, social media and advertisement. With a background in classical guitar from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Arcangel's practice often incorporates a score-based approach and a keen interest in the history and cultural significance of electronic and pop music. His work has been exhibited widely and was subject of solo exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg (2022); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2012); The Barbican, London (2011); Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2015); Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2010) and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2005). (2024)

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