About this Event
Please join us Saturday Nov 15th 4PM-6PM EST at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore to celebrate the launch of The Cory Arcangel Hack, Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice by Eivind Røssaak.
Cory Arcangel Performance. Cory Arcangel in conversation with Eivind Røssaak and Alexander R. Galloway.
Q&A. Signing. Refreshments
In-person and livestreamed at @artbookps1
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"Arcangel’s trajectory as an artist maps the palette of computing over the past decades. From beige to candy-colored and rainbow-hued to toxic orange and dollar blues, Eivind Røssaak captures this faithfully and in telling detail." - Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London
"Like Duchamp, Arcangel is a sly prankster. His media hacks are serious, challenging, and deeply funny. Røssaak shows why these aspects must be thought together to understand Arcangel’s conception of a contemporary art practice. Weaving together the technical and social mechanics through which we are threaded, Røssaak’s infrastructural analysis reveals Arcangel’s jokes as a window into the unconscious of our 21st-century media culture." - Andrew V. Uroskie, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
"Any one of Cory Arcangel’s artworks could hardly have been produced a day earlier, because he conjures ideas and materials from the cultural and technological ferment of the now. Røssaak studies a quarter century’s worth of Arcangel's groundbreaking work in order to shed light on where we've been, how we were got here, and how one might resist the flow."- Seth Price, artist
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. Arcangel's notable works include Super Mario Clouds (2002), a modified version of the video game Super Mario Bros. in which all of the game's graphics have been removed, leaving a blue background with white clouds, and /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD (2017-2021), an AI video game playing computer. In 2014, Arcangel founded Arcangel Surfware, a software publisher and merchandise company. Notable brand releases include Arcangel's The Source zine series, and a first-time publishing of Tony Conrad's Music and the Mind of the World. Arcangel is the youngest artist since Bruce Nauman to have been given a full floor solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011).
Eivind Røssaak is Research Professor at the National Library of Norway’s Department of Research, Visual Media Section. A former Visiting Scholar at Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago, Cinematic Arts at USC, and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.He has published and lectured widely on media aesthetics, media archaeology, archival experiments, and critical theory. He got his first computer, an Apple Macintosh SE, in 1987, and his first laptop, an Apple Powerbook 140, in 1992. During his school, college, and graduate school years, he worked as a musician, journalist, reviewer of cinema and literature, and wrote travelogues from around the world. He can still remember the sound of a modem and life without a smartphone.
Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, he is author of several books on digital media and critical theory. Galloway has given over two hundred talks both across the U.S. and in ten countries around the world. His writings have been translated into eleven languages. He is recipient of a number of grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and the Prix Ars Electronica.
The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines of Big Tech.Combining the hands-on skills from the 1990s net art scene and the 2010s post-internet art’s fondness for memes and the generic image, Arcangel demonstrated the wal critique. In The Cory Arcangel Hack, Eivind Røssaak shows how Arcangel’s body of work defines a particular strain of post-conceptual art that is fundamental for understanding the digital world we live in.
https://artbookstores.com/The-Cory-Arcangel-Hack-Digital-Culture-and-Aesthetic-Practice-Rossaak
MIT Press | Paperback | 274 pages | 6 X 9 in | $45
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, United States
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