Cory Arcangel along with Beige presented two works: one a large-scale, three-projection installation, the other a monitor piece. Arcangel, and his accomplices -- a collective who call themselves "Beige" -- hack Nintendo game chips and alter their contents. By traveling backward to the nascent technology of "interactive" video, Arcangel and company rewrite science in reverse, chucking "advancement" out the window. One work, Shoot Andy Warhol, is a working video game that can be played by visitors to the gallery -- we gain points by shooting Warhol, but lose points if we accidentally shoot Colonel Sanders, the Pope or Flavor Flav. A large wall projection of wondrous blue with white digital clouds is simply a Mario Bros. game chip with all of the human figures removed.
Cory's work has been shown as part of the 2004 Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as at LISTE, The Young Art Fair, in Basel, Switzerland and in Team's booth at the 2004 Armory Show. He will be included in the upcoming Liverpool Biennial as well as a solo exhibition and residency at FACT in London.