Cory Arcangel is an American artist and composer born in Buffalo, New York, in 1978. He works across modified video games, software, video, music, performance, sculpture and the internet. His practice treats digital technology and popular culture as both artistic materials and systems to be examined.
Arcangel became widely known for altering familiar video games and removing their expected goals. In Super Mario Clouds, he modified a Nintendo cartridge until only clouds remained moving across a blue sky. Other works transform virtual competition into repetition, error or inevitable failure. Humour makes these interventions immediately accessible, but it also exposes the rules hidden inside technological entertainment.
Obsolete consoles, outdated software, social media and online images become records of rapidly ageing digital cultures. Arcangel’s work asks what happens when technologies disappear but their habits and aesthetics remain. It also challenges the distinction between programming, appropriation and artistic authorship. This tag brings together articles, exhibitions and critical perspectives on Cory Arcangel’s practice.
Immersion and interaction: the 1990s helped define digital art as an experiential space. Post-Internet Art: When the Internet Stopped Being Somewhere Else Post-Internet Art sounds like a historical contradiction because we are clearly
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