The Cory Arcangel Hack

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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

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 edited several books and articles in English and Norwegian.

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