CORY ARCHANGEL lecture at UCSD
VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES
Thursday, April 14, 7:00 p.m.
VAF Performance Space, Free
CORY ARCHANGEL
Cory Arcangel works with early computers and video game systems. He is best known for his Nintendo game cartridge hacks, and his subversive reworking of obsolete computer systems of the 1970s and ’80s, such as the Commodore 64 and Atari 800. Arcangel often works with art collective/record label Beige, a loosely defined ensemble of artists and programmers who work collaboratively in digital media. Beige, with members in New York City and Chicago, has produced videos, Web projects, and albums of electronic music, as well as modified Nintendo video game cartridges. Beige members include Arcangel, Paul Davis, Joe Buckman and Joseph Bonn.
Cory Arcangel was born in 1978. He received a B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He has received grants from Turbulence and Harvestworks. Arcangel has performed and exhibited his work at various institutions and festivals, including the American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, Queens; the Whitney Museum of American Art’s artport website; Anthology Film Archives, New York; the New York Video Festival; Eyebeam, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the 2004 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Arcangel lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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