[USA] ~ 1978

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“F1 Racer Mod (Japanese Driving Game)” ~ 2004

Modified NES cartridge, wall projection.

Courtesy Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

Cory Arcangel cut his teeth at Oberlin College, where he studied music and began working with Paul B. Davis. Together they founded Beige, a programming ensemble into multidisciplinary explorations of alternative uses for technology, all with a decidedly low-tech approach. Super Mario Clouds (2002), a NES cartridge running just an electric blue sky, was followed by other modified cartridges, such as I shot Andy Warhol (2002), Super Mario Movie (with Paperrad, 2005) and Japanese Driving game (2004), which does away with the car race to focus on the landscape (the American dream of life on the road).

Arcangel’s work was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and the Greater New York exhibition at PS1 in 2005. He has also shown his work in New York at MOMA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and The Guggenheim Museum, and he staged a solo exhibition at Zurich’s Migros Museum in 2005.

More infos on this work: http://beigerecords.com/cory/ Things_I_Made_in_2004/f1racer_2004.html