Cory Arcangel

Cory Arcangel ( born May 25, 1978) in Buffalo, New York, is an American artist who combines different media. Drawings, music, video, the modification of video games, own performances and installations are used to investigate the relationship between technology and culture.

Vita

Arcangel grew up in Buffalo NY and attended the Nichols School. He was impressed by exhibitions of video art in the Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Arts Center, including an exhibition of Nam June Paik. He studied classical guitar at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, but then changed to a degree course in Music Technology, graduation in 2000. At the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he met Paul B. Davis, with whom he founded the Beige Programming Ensemble in 2000.

Work

Cory Arcangel developed his works from elements of the Internet culture, from pop and experimental music and for video games and computer programs. He uses his experience as a musician and his knowledge of programming. The approach can often be attributed to the appropriation art in a broader sense. Christiane Paul, curator of his first major solo exhibition " Pro Tools " at the Whitney Museum, pointed out that the artist's work is an important digital arts theoretical difference to the fore: Digital technology is not only, as it has become common, as used tool, but the digital is seen as its own medium and explored, partly to reflect on digital media. Practices and myths of Internet culture and trends in the entertainment industry come to life. Arcangel presents his most multimedia works in various genres: video installations, kinetic sculptures and performances.

On the occasion of the donation of the video installation "a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould " in the collection of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin was the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Contemporary Art 's first solo show by Cory Arcangel in Berlin: " Here Comes Everybody ".

Super Mario Clouds

Super Mario Clouds is one of the "Nintendo Game Cartridge hacks " with which Cory Arcangel was known. He modified a Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System module by the program chip removed from the computer game classic of the 1980s and replaced by a self-built chip. From the graphics of the video game just a blue background on the White Clouds remained slow and endlessly moving from right to left.

A couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould

The video installation consists of 1106 drawn from the Internet frames from different people at different instruments, each playing a note from the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach. In a double projection, the images are synchronized to music at a breathtaking pace from. Glenn Gould's method of assembling different shots for his records, is an absurdity.

Exhibitions

• 2005: Nerdzone version 1 Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich
• 2011: Here Comes Everybody. Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
• 2011: Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

External Overview:

• Exhibitions by Cory Arcangel on kunstaspekte.de