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| Cory Arcangel Hack, Digital Culture & Aesthetic Practice
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| With Eivind Rssaak (Prof. Research @ Nat'l Library of Norway), Alexander Galloway (Prof. Media, Culture & Communication @ NYU), Cory Arcangel (Artist). |
| MoMA PS1 Bookstore, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City |
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Nov 15 (Sat) , 2025 @ 04:00 PM
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Sat | Nov 15th | 4PM Performance by Cory Arcangel followed by conversation with Eivind Rssaak, & Alexander R. Galloway. Q&A/Signing
Please Join us Saturday, November 15th at 4 PM -6PM to celebrate the launch of "The Cory Arcangel Hack, Digital Culture & Aesthetic Practice by Eivind Rssaak. Cory Arcangel Performance. Cory Arcangel in conversation with Eivind Rssaak & Alexander R. Galloway.
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential hacks subvert the confines of Big Tech.Combining the hands-on skills from the 1990s net art scene & the 2010s post-internet art's fondness for memes & the generic image, Arcangel demonstrated the way cultural expressions are intimately connected to media technologies & how these technologies can be pranked for cultural critique. In The Cory Arcangel Hack, Eivind Rssaak shows how Arcangel's body of work defines a particular strain of post-conceptual art that is fundamental for understanding the digital world we live in.
MIT Press | Paperback | 274 pages | 6 X 9 in | $45
Eivind Rssaak is Research Professor at the National Library of Norway's Department of Research, Visual Media Section. A former Visiting Scholar at Cinema & Media Studies at University of Chicago, Cinematic Arts at USC, & Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.He has published & lectured widely on media aesthetics, media archaeology, archival experiments, & critical theory. He got his first computer, an Apple Macintosh SE, in 1987, & his first laptop, an Apple Powerbook 140, in 1992. During his school, college, & graduate school years, he worked as a musician, journalist, reviewer of cinema & literature, & wrote travelogues from around the world. He can still remember the sound of a modem & life without a smartphone.
Alexander R. Galloway is a writer & computer programer working on issues in philosophy, technology, & theories of mediation. Professor of Media, Culture, & Communication at New York University, he is author of several books on digital media & critical theory. Galloway has given over two hundred talks both across the U.S. & in ten countries around the world. His writings have been translated into eleven languages. He is recipient of a number of grants & awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, & the Prix Ars Electronica.
Cory Arcangel is an artist, composer, curator, & entrepreneur living & working in Stavanger, Norway. Arcangel explores the potential & failures of old & new digital technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Applying a semi-archeological methodology, his practice explores, encodes, & hacks the structural language of video games, software, social media & machine learning - treating them as subject matter & medium.
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