Research in Motion (Kinetic Sculpture #6), 2011. (Installation view, Pro Tools, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2011; Photo: Sheldan Collins). Modified silver dancing stands. © Cory Arcangel, Courtesy of Cory Arcangel.
Cory Arcangel
Power Points
21 June – 24 November 2013
at DHC/ART, Montréal
DHC/ART presents the first major Canadian exhibition of Brooklyn based artist Cory Arcangel. Trained initially in classical guitar and music technology at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Cory Arcangel is now recognized as a major exponent of a pop-tinged, computer-centred art.
Arcangel embraces the Internet’s anarchic potential and its Utopian open source culture, making works that question authorship, the status, and value of the art object. Exploring both the promises and deceptions of software, electronic gadgets, games and other devices—with an emphasis on how they become old and quickly out-dated—Arcangel’s art eulogizes technology’s built-in obsolescence while also wittily celebrating its noise, mindless repetitions, and inevitable failures.
He plays serious pranks with computers: famously disabling Nintendo games; hacking, modifying or otherwise manipulating software; re-appropriating and re-editing print media or YouTube videos to coax new and unexpected meanings, trigger sardonic humour, reference art-historical traditions, or just have some honest fun. All this seems orchestrated from a sincere, layman’s perspective and, simultaneously, from a conceptually savvy and specialist position. [read the full text here]
DHC/ART
451 & 465, St-Jean Street
Montreal, Quebec
H2Y 2R5
Canada
dhc-art.org
Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday: 12h00 – 19h00
Saturday – Sunday: 11h00 – 18h00
Cory Arcangel, I Shot Andy Warhol, 2002, handmade hacked video game, game system, gun. Curtesy the artist.
Cory Arcangel, Self Playing Nintendo 64 NBA Courtside 2, 2011. Modded N64 video game controller. Courtesy the artist.
Cory Arcangel, Photoshop CS: 84 by 66 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient “Spectrum”, mousedown y=8900 x=15,600, mouse up y=13,800 x=0, 2009 Unique c-print, 84 x 66 inches, Image courtesy of the artist and Team Gallery, NY, Collection of Ninah and Michael Lynne.