Cory Arcangel's Official Portfolio Website and Portal

Welcome to my Official Portfolio Website and Portal - my small corner of cyberspace. Relax, and stay a second to look around. Hot tips: I definitely recommend the "Things I Made" section, or even the "Shows"! Also don't forget to check out my new webstore / (in) activewear brand Arcangel Surfware here......Thanks again! - Cory ;-)


Posted on: January 23, 2019

Verticals @ GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC

GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC - VILLA KAST
MIRABELLPLATZ 2, A-5020 SALZBURG

Opening Sunday 27th, noon.

C u then! Info (first sølø show in 3 years!)

Posted on: September 5, 2018

Arcangel Surfware Flagship

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, September, 29th.

Arcangel Surfware Flagship (second) Grand Opening

Lervigsveien 25, Stavanger, Norway

Smashed in-between Berlin Art Week & Frieze, the Arcangel Surfware Flagship shop & gallery celebrates our (second) grand opening. Promised: new merch, new software, & a new TBD masterpiece by TBD artist showing at our in-house gallery Flagship A.S. (we r working on it!). The event is open to the public, so please feel free to send along. If u r thinking of going 2 Frieze or Berlin Art Week, maybe consider a small detour 2 SVG 4 a night?

Info: http://www.arcangelsurfware.biz/

Posted on: June 28, 2018

Difference Engine

...a show at Lisson NYC. Lets do this!!~~~~info below re:pasted from lissongallery.com

‘Difference Engine’29 June – 10 August 2018


Lisson Gallery presents ‘Difference Engine’, an exhibition curated by Cory Arcangel and Tina Kukielski.

Emerging from two poles—the machine’s mechanistic logic on the one hand and the fetishistic objectivity of surrealism at the other—the works in ‘Difference Engine’ explore the art of contradiction.

André Breton’s surrealist doctrine of objective chance drew inspiration from a now well-known, singular quote by the young poet Comte de Lautréamont who tragically died at the age of twenty-four: “The chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.” Difference Engine explores a similar conceit, ripe with the undercurrents of our twenty-first century technological narcissism set in stark contrast to its utopian possibilities.

The exhibition’s title is taken from Charles Babbage’s name for his invention of a calculating engine powered by a cranking handle that, upon its completion in 1832, would be the first automated mechanical calculator. Furthering the allusion, a 1990 sci-fi novel of the same name by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling would play a significant role in the setting off of the genre of steampunk through its envisioning of a speculative reality sprung from this historical turning point.

The works in Difference Engine embrace an uncanny or nauseated condition that is nonetheless replete with humor and comic relief. The miracle and misery of the information age is explored. The beauty and grotesque of pop syncopates against a curious and contradictory surrealist imaginary. Artists include Cory Arcangel, Carol Bove, Jacob Ciocci, Aleksandra Domanović, Lonnie Holley, Jamian Juliano-Villani, JODI, Konrad Klapheck, Guthrie Lonergan, Michel Majerus, Jayson Musson, Deborah Remington, Hayley Silverman, Jessie Stead, Paul Thek and Ernest Trova.

Posted on: June 1, 2018

Sorry I Havn’t Posted ;-(

Hey all,

So sorry I havnt posted in a while. I guess, tho, I have done a few news items, but havnt really posted to the “Things I Made” or “Exhibitions” sections in a few years. I’m feeling pretty ashamed! And, TBH, the time went so fast I hardly noticed. Also - possible TMI - it hz been a wild ride on this end. I moved to S/W Norway, became a father(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), worked with Tony Conrad on Music and the Mind of the World, toured around the world with Olia Lialina, oh yah, and opened a store, .... so many new things, I just kinda lost track of stuff, so I just havn’t had time to sort through things to post here. I promise Ill post soon, just give me a sec to sort it!

Anyway, thanks, I appreciate your support, and 4 sticking with me.

Cory

Stavanger, Norway, 2018

Posted on: September 20, 2017

Arcangel Surfware @ NYABF 2017

The New York Art Book Fair
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY
September 22–24, 2017
Table #C12

Arcangel Surfware is pleased to announce our participation in the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 this weekend. We will be presenting this years’ two showcases in a totally new format – a trade-show styled booth featuring a custom fast-food style liquid crystal display menu designed in collaboration with Wax Studios.

Our featured presentation will be a series of new items from Cory Arcangel’s currentmood series, which premiered in an eponymous exhibition at Lisson Gallery, London, in Summer 2016. A limited edition of three new Fidget Spinner sculptures by Arcangel, titled 3 Celebs Who Treat Their Fans Like Trash (SRF-047), 3 Celebs You Didnt Know Were Smokers (SRF-048), and 3 Celebs Who Were Born Rich (SRF-049)––priced at $19.95 each, or $39.95 for all three––will be available for purchase EXCLUSIVELY at this year’s NYABF. Additionally, Arcangel Surfware will be selling a currentmood t-shirt for $39.95, featuring an installation still from the 2016 Lisson exhibition (SRF-050). We will also have on hand Arcangel’s 2016 Triple Canopy currentmood edition – a set of five canvases housed in a custom box.

In our second release, we will be launching our bespoke Music and the Mind of the World Twitter bot (https://twitter.com/on_this_day_mmw). Pulling from Tony Conrad’s Music and the Mind of the World (1976–1982), a multipart composition published by Arcangel Surfware in April of this year, the Python-built bot (engineered in-studio) recalls Conrad’s entries that were recorded on each specific day of the year. The bot-generated tweets include the recording location, Tony’s company at the time, and the piano that was recorded. This function allows followers to absorb the project over time––experiencing the work in the way it was created.

Arcangel Surfware will also be hawking some classic products, re-stocked just in time for NYABF––if you’ve been waiting to pick up a pair of our recently re-stocked Fuck Negativity Slides (SRF-032), White Logo Tee (SRF-034), or copy of The Source Digest (SRF-038), this is your chance! If you’re new to Surfware, we’re compiling a special Starter Kit, available for $79.95 at our booth.

We hope 2 c u there!

ABOUT ARCANGEL SURFWARE

Arcangel Surfware is a non-aspirational lifestyle, software, and publishing company founded by artist Cory Arcangel in 2014.

ABOUT CORY ARCANGEL

Cory Arcangel (b. 1978, Buffalo, NY) is an artist and entrepreneur who lives in Stavanger, Norway and works in New York, who makes work in a wide range of media. He recently opened the touring two-person show, “Asymmetrical Response” with Olia Lialina which traveled to the Western Front in Vancouver, the Kitchen in New York, and Art Projects Ibiza in Ibiza. His work is included in many public collections, including the MoMA in New York, the Tate in London, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.

ABOUT MUSIC AND THE MIND OF THE WORLD

From 1976 to 1982, Tony Conrad (1940-2016) created “Music and the Mind of the World,” a piano composition comprising over 200 hours of recorded music. During this time everything Conrad played on the piano was recorded (with the incidental exception of perhaps three or four hours). In this endeavor––which includes the sounds of practicing, banging on the keys, formal exercises, experiments with the harmonic sonority of the piano itself, and even “On Top of Old Smokey”––we witness what might in essence be described as the total encounter between an improvising performer and the central instrument of Western musical culture. Now, for the first time, this influential yet largely unknown work has been published by Arcangel Surfware and is now available online for free at the domain musicandthemindofthe.world.

HOURS

Preview Thursday, September 21, 6-9 pm

Friday, September 22, 1-7pm

Saturday, September 23, 11am-9pm

Sunday, September 24, 11am-7pm

For further press inquiries, contact [ info AT arcangelsurfware DOT biz].

Posted on: September 1, 2017

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