Exhibition Information

Cory Arcangel Related to Your Interests
2020
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Cory Arcangel ~3.2022.057~2x1.2~E6
2022 (BWB-Bausilber 2 E6) 200 x 120 cm
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			Energy is the foundation of our world, it makes everything go. 
— Cory Arcangel, 2023

For his first solo exhibition in South Korea, American-born artist Cory Arcangel assembles a group of works that embodies his enduring interest in technological developments, the digital realm and how images and commodities circulate in a global context. Presenting video, performance, wallpaper and wall-mounted works, the exhibition encapsulates the breadth of Arcangel’s practice, and asserts his position as a pioneer of digital technology-based art.

In 2020, using a machine learning technology, Arcangel programmed a bot to scrape clickbait gossip websites. The artist explains that by ‘toggling between two different articles, as if weaving sites together,’ this bot would identify key themes in the articles, passing them through Google Images to create a series of slideshows. These slideshows were accompanied by an automated voice that reads a nonsensical text generated by the bot using material sourced from the articles. From 2020 until late 2021, the videos were then uploaded to YouTube by the bot without the artist’s intervention.
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