The Cory Arcangel Hack - Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice

The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert pop culture and the digital vernacular. Cory Arcangel (b. 1978), perhaps best known for Combining the hands-on skills from the 1990s net art scene and the 2010s post-internet art’s fondness for memes and the generic image, Arcangel demonstrated the way cultural expressions are intimately connected to media technologies and how these technologies can be pranked for cultural critique. In Today, the question is not what comes first, humans or machines, but what the forces regulating expressive flows are. Arcangel’s aesthetic and micropolitical critique of mediation at the level of codes and chips enables us to think critically

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Eivind Røssaak; preface by Alexander R. Galloway

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• Authors: Alexander R. Galloway, Galloway Alexander R., Eivind Rossaak, Rossaak Eivind
• Assisted by: Galloway Alexander R. (Foreword)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.11.2025
• EAN: 9780262552547
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55254-7
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Leonardo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Individual artists, art monographs