Week 4
Cory
Arcangel is a Brooklyn, New York post-conceptual artist. He is well known for
using different kinds of media in the work, such as drawing, music, video,
performance art, and video game modifications. Arcangel often uses the artistic
strategy of appropriation, creatively re-using existing materials such as
dancing stands, Photoshop gradients and YouTube videos to create new works of
art. He explores the relationship between digital technology and pop culture
from his work.
Title of the artwork: Super Mario Clouds
Date: 2002
Medium: Handmade
hacked Super Mario Clouds Brothers cartridge and Nintendo NES video game system
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Edition information: 2/5
Super
Mario Clouds is based on the Super Mario game for Nintendo’s NES game console.
Cory Arcangel hacked the game and modified it so that all that remains of the
game are the white clouds on a blue sky. Gone is the main character, Super
Mario, who the player had to guide through a labyrinth in the original jump and
run game, just like the obstacles, landscapes and opponents that lend the game
its narrative structure. Those people who are familiar with the game can
imagine them on the empty background; everyone else will just see the cartoon
like display of a sky. The work was created on the basis of a manipulation of
the hardware and software. Cory Archangel had to open the cartridge, on which
the game was stored, and replace the Nintendo graphics chip with a chip on
which he had burned a program he had written himself. He is a member of the
Beige Programming Ensemble who have focused their artistic programmed on the
hacking ethic of manipulating existing technology, thereby taking the
modification of legacy technology to absurd extremes: the group have published
computer programs pressed on records and organize an annual competition for
cassette disk jockeys.
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