ray thinks you will like Cory Arcangel

hello all, ( pics arn't working i'll try to fix later)
i found an article in Contemporary(my fave journal so far) no.84 2006 on pages 26-29
about Cory Arcangel.Who is a media artist from new york.He's done some very funny things.
the article jumped out at me cause it had these video game kind of pictures instead of the usual art
you tend to see and also when i got the journal there was a bit of card in it with music written on it
called sweet 16 which is said is a simple piece based on the guitar intro from guns and roses sweet child o' mine.
I thought someone had perhaps left it in there till the kind librarian pointed out that it has its edition on the back
and we saw the name cory arcangel signed on it and on the front of the journal.
anyhow i didn't even think of that when i came across the article but it all goes together so nicely.
if only i could keep it.wooo-hoooo a real art work for moi.
So back to mr.arcangel........... well he works a lot with video games,nintendo mainly and has made a re-made a game where you shoot mass culture icons called" I shot andy warhol"."Nintendo clouds" where he took out everything from super mario brothers except the clouds and some sneeky bit where he put the chip back into the original game i think.And "super slow tetris" which goes you guessed it super slow.He likes the idea of hacking into things, and antagonizing people with endurance(partly because he's a gittery nervous person)And working with obsolete things like super nintendo because in his field of media things keep frustratingly changing but these old obsolete ones don't because they are already obsolete so they will never change. Speaking of endurance i also found out on the web he made a video called "Colours" that is a 33 day long version of 1998 dennis hopper film colours. He also loves obsessive fan websites and he made a performance piece where he showed a dvd of a simon and garfunkle concert and slowed down and focused on the crazed fans.He seems to love simon and garfunkle because he did another funny one where he time coded all the spots where you could read tension between them.among others.I found a lot more about him on the net,the article didn't say too much more of an interview but a good one at that.he's interesting in a current,funny, non wanky way. Theres probably lots more i could say but you can check it out yourselves on his weblog at www.beigerecords.com/cory. he's also part of a few groups one being beige who do this sort of work. I will leave you with what i think is the funniest piece i found its called "doogle.com" and it was a google hack that looks just like google but would only return information on doogie howser md. please tell me you remember that show.
pure brilliance............................