Cory Arcangel was born on May 25,1978 and is an American post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance art, and video game modifications, for which he is best known.
22 Facts About Cory Arcangel
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Cory Arcangel's work explores the relationship between digital technology and pop culture.
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Cory Arcangel is a recipient of a 2006 Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award and the 2015 Kino der Kunst Award for Filmic Oeuvre.
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Cory Arcangel grew up in Buffalo, New York and attended the Nichols School, where he was a star lacrosse goalie.
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Cory Arcangel was very interested in guitar, practicing eight hours a day by the time he turned seventeen.
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Cory Arcangel studied classical guitar at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, but later switched to major in the technology of music, graduating in 2000.
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At Oberlin, Arcangel met Jacob Ciocci and Paul B Davis.
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Cory Arcangel describes a piece in which she connected sine wave oscillators to loudspeakers and output the exact audio frequency as the resonance of the concert hall, creating an increasingly louder sound.
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Cory Arcangel's best known works are his Nintendo game cartridge hacks and reworkings of obsolete computer systems of the 1970s and 80s.
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Cory Arcangel created a world where Mario starts on a single block-cube centered in blue nothingness.
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The work is one of several videos, performances and lectures by Cory Arcangel based on Simon and Garfunkel's live concerts.
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Cory Arcangel's 2007 LP is an intervention into Bruce Springsteen's 1975 album Born to Run.
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Cory Arcangel created a glockenspiel part for each of these songs, releasing them on this vinyl record, which can be played in sync with Springsteen's original to add a 'missing' part to the original album.
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In 2014, Cory Arcangel founded Cory Arcangel Surfware, a software publisher and merchandise company, alongside Bravado.
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Cory Arcangel created Various Self Playing Bowling Games by hacking various bowling video games to throw gutter balls.
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Cory Arcangel's work has been subject of several solo museum exhibitions, including the Kunstverein in Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, the CC Foundation in Shanghai, China, The Kitchen, New York, US, Galleria D'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, the Barbican Centre in London, England and the Migros Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois.
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Cory Arcangel's work has been exhibited in many places in New York City, including the Museum of Modern Art's Color Chart, the Whitney Museum, and the New Museum.
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Cory Arcangel's work is included in public collections in locations such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Miami Art Museum, Migros Museum, and Neue Nationalgalerie.
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Cory Arcangel is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery in New York, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris and Salzburg, Lisson Gallery in London, and Galerie Guy Bartschi in Geneva.
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At 33, Cory Arcangel was the youngest artist to receive an entire floor for new work with Pro Tools, his 2011 solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Cory Arcangel is married to Hanne Mugaas, a Norwegian curator; together, they have one child.
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In 2009, Cory Arcangel was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and his treatments gave him both concentration and memory issues, completely wiping out his short-term memory for a period of time.