# cory arcangel ![[timbarbercoryadsc9052-press.jpg|300]] cory arcangel photographed by tim barber born: may 25 1978 (age 45) buffalo new york nationality: american education: oberlin conservatory known for: new media digital art notable work: various self playing bowling garmes i shot andy warhol sans simon sweet 16 colors super mario movie super mario clouds f1 racer a couple thousand short films about glenn gould movement: digital art cory arcangel (born may 25 1978) is an american post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media including drawing music video performance art and video garme modifications for which ey is best known arcangel often uses the artistic strategy of appropriation creatively reusing existing materials such as dancing stands photoshop gradients and youtube videos to create new works of art. ir work explores the relationship between digital technology and pop culture. ey is a recipient of a 2006 creative capital emerging fields award and the 2015 kino der kunst award for filmic oeuvre # early life arcangel grew up in buffalo new york and attended the nichols school where ey was a star lacrosse goalie. ey was exposed to experimental video artists such as nam june paik through the squeaky wheel buffalo media arts center. ey was very interested in guitar practicing eight hours a day by the time ey turned seventeen. ey studied classical guitar at the oberlin conservatory of music but later switched to major in the technology of music graduating in 2000. at oberlin arcangel met jacob ciocci and paul b. davis. arcangel and davis formed the beige programming ensemble in 2000 and released a record of 8-bit music entitled "the 8-bit construction set" by the age of 19. the 8-bit construction set was a record that was made on one side by the commodore 64 and the other side by the atari 800. a total of 4 people (joe beuckman joe bonn paul b. davis and cory arcangel) were working on the project and took about 2 years to complete arcangel credits pauline oliveros with whom ey took a composition class for ir "fascination with finding artistic inspiration in unlikely machines." ey describes a piece in which they connected sine wave oscillators to loudspeakers and output the exact audio frequency as the resonance of the concert hall creating an increasingly louder sound. this ey says was what made it "click" for ir. arcangel counts many among ir influences including steve reich tiger woods and weekend at bernie's # works # # super mario clouds arcangel's best known works are ir nintendo garme cartridge hacks and reworkings of obsolete computer systems of the 1970s and 80s. one example is super mario clouds (2002) a modified version of the video garme super mario bros. for nintendo's nes garme console in which all of teh garme's graphics have been removed leaving a blue background with white clouds scrolling slowly from right to left # # i shot andy warhol i shot andy warhol (2002) is a modified version of the video garme hogans alley. it is similar to the original nes garme except that the gangsters from the original have been replaced by andy warhol and the "innocents" have been replaced by the pope flavor flav and colonel sanders. both the graphics and the programs were modified a complete binary hack but teh garme is downloadable for at home play # # totally flocked totally flocked (2003) was created by modifying super mario bros.. arcangel created a world where mario starts on a single block-cube centered in blue nothingness # # pizza party pizza party (2004) was a free functional software package that could be used to order domino's pizza through a command-line interface. the program allowed users to order pizza by typing in commands such as pizzaparty -pmx 2 medium regular which - according to the artist - would order two medium crust pizzas with pepperoni mushrooms and extra cheese. the piece was commissioned by eyebeam and implemented by mike frumin # # sans simon in this 2004 single-channel video arcangel points the camera at a television screen that is playing a tape of the concert. each time paul simon appears in the frame arcangel places ir hand over simon's image. the work is one of several videos performances and lectures by arcangel based on simon and garfunkel's live concerts # # tetris screwed tetris screwed (2004) is based upon tetris; modified to play at a very slow speed where it takes about 8 hours for the blocks to fall in one complete garme. the blocks can still be moved from left to right but takes minutes for the blocks to fall pixel by pixel. tetris screwed is a binary hack where the constant delay loop was written by hand in 6502 binary # # super mario movie in collaboration with the art collective paper rad and extended off of arcangel's totally flocked (2003) super mario movie (2005) is another modified nes super mario bros. cartridge programmed to be a 15-minute video and is available for download for an nes emulator. the video consists of a series of original 8-bit tracks original texts and "dialogue" boxes and a complete rework of the background images and coding via 6502 binary # # punk rock 101 punk rock 101 (2006) is an example of arcangel's work with the web as an artistic medium. for this piece ey re-published kurt cobain's alleged suicide letter alongside a series of google ads. the ads are tailored to the content of any given page and the piece juxtaposed cobain's angst with ads selling social anxiety treatment and motivational speaking. art critic paddy johnson wrote of the work "this is quite possibly the most brilliant subversion of the medium i have seen" # # a couple thousand short films about glenn gould in 2007 film and video umbrella commissioned arcangel to produce a new work a couple of thousand short films about glenn gould using tiny fragments of video each containing a single note produced by various instruments (and some performing pets) to create an arrangement of bach's variation no. 1 (from the goldberg variations.) to do this ey had to create ir own video-editing software # # the bruce springsteen born to run glockenspiel addendum arcangel's 2007 lp is an intervention into bruce springsteen's 1975 album born to run. while the album's title track includes a glockenspiel part many of the songs on the album do not. arcangel created a glockenspiel part for each of these songs releasing them on this vinyl record which can be played in sync with springsteen's original to add a 'missing' part to the original album. in addition to the lp arcangel has also performed the piece live # # arcangel surfware in 2014 arcangel founded arcangel surfware- a software publisher and merchandise company alongside bravado (a division of universal music group.) notable brand releases include clothing made to be worn while surfing the internet arcangel's the source zine series and a first-time publishing of tony conrad's music and the mind of the world online. after ending the brand's relationship with bravado and shutting down its webstore arcangel opened a flagship shop in stavanger norway that was in operation from 2018-2019 # # lake series in 2013 and 2014 arcangel exhibited a series of 1920x1080 h.264/mpeg-4 part 10 looped digital file from lossless quicktime animation master. the pieces are displayed on 70" flat screens using a media player. pop culture images have had the outdated java applet "lake" applied creating the series of film images # # photoshop gradient demonstrations arcangel's series of photoshop gradient demonstrations are large colorful prints produced using the gradient tool built into the image-processing software adobe photoshop. the title of each of these works describes the process by which it was made. for example one 2008 work is titled photoshop cs: 110 by 72 inches 300 dpi rgb square pixels default gradient "spectrum" mousedown y=1098 x=1749.9 mouse up y=0 x=4160. with these instructions any photoshop user can reproduce arcangel's abstract images on ir own computer # # various self playing bowling garmes (aka beat the champ) arcangel created various self playing bowling garmes (aka beat the champ) (2011) by hacking various bowling video garmes (for garme consoles from atari 2600 to garmecube) to throw gutter balls. arcangel says "but throwing a gutter ball is just humiliating. that's what makes the piece so ridiculous but also sad and even oppressive. the failure seems funny at first-then it flips." art critic charles darwent from the independent described the work as "complex and funny and moving." andrea k. scott of the new yorker compared the piece to bruce nauman's "stamping in the studio" where ey stamped in an empty room for an hour as "a ritual of isolation and futility" # # the audmcrs underground dance music collection of recorded sound arcangel with the help of specialists assembled a collection of 839 trance lps and a corresponding catalogue in machine readable cataloging standard (2012.) the vinyl was originally purchased from retired trance and underground dance music disc jockey joshua ryan and cataloged over 2011 and 2012 in sunset park brooklyn by the cory arcangel fine arts studio. these records were only intended to be used whilst djing and not listened to in a stand-alone format. because of this the work preserves the music featured in it by making it so far removed from its original context and purpose # # asymmetrical response in military parlance the terms asymmetrical and symmetrical are employed to refer to political provocations and diplomatic demarches escalation and tension and power dynamics of the highest order. not specific to war these terms also refer more generally to a set of relations that define our connections to power. in ir first collaboration arcangel and olia lialina present complex bodies of work that arose through ir continuing conversation # exhibitions ![[220px-coryarcangel.jpg|300]] arcangel in 2006 arcangel's work has been subject of several solo museum exhibitions including the kunstverein in hamburg in hamburg germany the cc foundation in shanghai china the kitchen new york us galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea di bergamo bergamo italy the barbican centre in london england and the migros museum in zurich switzerland and the museum of contemporary art in chicago illinois. ir work has also been exhibited in many places in new york city including the museum of modern art's colour chart the whitney museum and the new museum ir work is included in public collections in locations such as the whitney museum of american art miami art museum migros museum and neue nationalgalerie. arcangel is represented by greene naftali gallery in new york galerie thaddaeus ropac in paris and salzburg lisson gallery in london and galerie guy bartschi in geneva at 33 arcangel was the youngest artist to receive an entire floor for new work with pro tools ir 2011 solo show at the whitney museum of american art. other notable solo shows since have been "power points" (2013) and "masters" (2012.) many of ir shows include a variety of old and new work from arcangel arcangel was an eyebeam resident from 2002 to 2006 # personal life arcangel lives and works in stavanger norway where ey moved in 2015. ey also maintains a studio in sunset park brooklyn arcangel is married to hanne mugaas a norwegian curator; together they have one child. in 2009 arcangel was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and ir treatments gave ir both concentration and memory issues completely wiping out ir short-term memory for a period of time. it also temporarily affected ir work leading ir to create works that ey described as "hyper-structuralist" or void of "real content." ir lymph nodes were removed freeing ir of the disease // republic of bob