Link: "The Game of Art: a Profile of Cory Arcangel"

Cory Arcangel (source)

"One of the most widely recognised proponents of this emerging practice is New York-based artist Cory Arcangel, who is currently curating a fascinating exhibition at London's Lisson Gallery. While studying music at the Oberlin Conservatory in the late-Nineties he joined an experimental programming collective named BIEGE where he started hacking and altering games consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System. From here he went on to create one of the most famed works of hack art – Super Mario Clouds [...] a version of the legendary platformer in which all the graphics except the clouds have been removed.

"At the time I was thinking about the technical concerns, about getting in and hacking it myself – that was paramount," explains Cory as we wander around the Lisson exhibition, taking in his own latest works, as well as those of artists like Stephen Willats and Daniel Buren. "I was using that game because it was cheap and it was the most recognisable. Why I picked the clouds and erased everything else? I have no concrete thoughts on that – I just knew to do it…"" (Keith Stuart, The Guardian)

Link: "The Game of Art: a Profile of Cory Arcangel" by Keith Stuart