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February 20, 2011
Cory Arcangel creates Art from hacked video games
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Cory Arcangel hacks video games to make art. For his Super Mario Clouds piece in 2002, he took the original NES cartridge and deleted all the code apart from that required to paint clouds. His most recent work, Beat the Champ displays an array of live loops generated from bowling video games on a variety of game consoles, from the archaic 1978 Odyssey² up to the Gamecube and every generation in between. And every one has been programmed to throw only gutter balls.
I don't really know what to think about the works on the pictures above, but I do like the concept of hacking videogames and changing them. Gaming has become a very popular way of spending free time and generations grew up playing the same games over and over again. The original games look very familiar and become a good ingredient for contemporary (pop)art.
Read here a interview with Cory Arcangel about his exhibition 'Beat the Champ' at the Barbican Art Gallery, London until May 22.
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