Cory Arcangel

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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 examine the relationship between technology and culture .

Life

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

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Cory Arcangel develops his works from elements of internet culture , from pop and experimental music and from video games and computer programs . He uses his experience as a musician and his programming skills. The approach can often be assigned to Appropriation Art in the broader sense. Christiane Paul , as curator of his first major solo exhibition “Pro Tools” at the Whitney Museum , pointed out that in the artist's work there is a theoretical difference that is important for digital art: digital technology is not only, as it has become customary, as Instead, the digital is understood and explored as a separate medium, sometimes also to reflect on digital media. Practices and myths of internet culture and trends in the entertainment industry can be experienced with the senses. Arcangel presents its mostly multimedia works in different 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 ” to the collection of the National Gallery of the State Museums in Berlin , the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart presented Cory Arcangel's first solo exhibition in Berlin: “Here Comes Everybody”.

Super Mario Clouds

Super Mario Clouds is one of the "Nintendo Game Cartridge Hacks" that made Cory Arcangel famous. He modified a Super Mario Bros. module for the Nintendo Entertainment System by removing the program chip from the classic computer game of the 1980s and replacing it with a self-made chip. All that remained of the video game's graphics was a blue background on which white clouds slowly and endlessly move from right to left.

A couple of thousand short films about Glenn Gould

The video installation consists of 1106 individual images, taken from the Internet, of various people on different instruments, each playing a note from the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach . In a double projection , the images run synchronously with the music at breathtaking speed. Glenn Gould's method of putting together different recordings for his records is taken ad absurdum .

Exhibitions

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

External overview:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Andrea Scott: Futurism . Ed .: The New Yorker. May 30, 2011, p. 30-34 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d Music works by visual artists. Friends of Good Music Berlin eV, November 30, 2010, accessed on May 1, 2012 .
  3. ^ Roberta Smith : A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. The New York Times, May 26, 2011, accessed May 1, 2012 : “The pieces on view are full of savvy echoes of early video art and structuralist film; kinetic, Conceptual and Pop art and their current derivatives; abstract painting; and, above all, appropriation art - all of it often updated by his generation's democratic attitude toward information sharing. "
  4. ↑ Pro Tools by Cory Arcangel in the Whitney Museum, introduction by Christiane Paul and Cory Arcangel (English)
  5. ^ Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart: Cory Arcangel. Here comes everybody. State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, accessed on April 27, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Interview in: Stefan Goldmann : "Presets - Digital Shortcuts to Sound", The Bookworm, London, 2015, pp. 170–189. ISBN 978-1-874104-02-5

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personal data
SURNAME Arcangel, Cory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American multimedia artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York