Ever since posting pictures of my show at UMMA in Jan, I’ve gotten a ton of questions about the strange looking sculptures. So, I’m pleased to present a video of another in the series above. They are my new “kinetic sculptures” made from Dancing Stands modified to spin at slightly different speeds. More info and Perma link here.

If you are in Miami, please come check out my show, “The Sharper Image” @ The Museum of Contemporary Art Miami. Im showing a ton of new and old stuff. In fact, it’s the most of my stuff ever assembled in one place at one time, ……….think tons of Photoshop gradients, cats, dancing stands, bowling games, Guns n Roses vidz, a lonely invader, fake structural films, drawings, scans, etc, etc. The opening is tonight from 6-9pm. Also of note, …. running concurrently to my show, is a show by one of my fav artists Ceal Floyer called “Auto Focus”.

The Sharper Image
March 11 – May 9, 2010
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NORTH MIAMI
Joan Lehman Building
770 NE 125th Street,
North Miami, Florida 33161
T +1 305 893 6211

The Guggenheim has a show up right now called “Contemplating The Void” where they have solicited proposals from 200(ish) different artists / designers / etc, etc, etc as to what they would do in the spiral if they had a chance. Check the web version of the show here. I submitted a proposal. My proposal wasn’t so much to to do something in the spiral, but more to research a bit about its renovation. My submitted text read:

I would like to work with the contractors involved in the renovation to produce a publication detailing the issues they found with the original building (cracks, shifting, etc, etc) and technologies used to address these in the renovation.

Usually when I’m asked to do site specific proposals like this I always over think it and end up with something stupid. Anyway, much to my surprise, I would actually like to realize this idea one day ¹ Over at http://www.forconstructionpros.com/ there is an interesting article which deals with a bit of the things I would like to explore more. For example apparently, “the renovation team set out to map every visible crack in the museum wall.” Awesome, Id love to see that spreadsheet! ps – My crude imagined rendering is above.

As long as we are talking about youtube, recently I was included in the youtube grid show 3 Hours in 1 Second along with some other great people. Check the show out here, and my contribution here.

In 2008, I was asked by Frieze Foundation to pick my top ten youtube videos. These were then to be featured on Frieze’s website (which is not maintained). I had envisioned the project as a kinda performance that would take place over as many years as that site stayed online. Well, it’s 2010, and checking back it seems things are moving along nicely.

Ive posted some pictures from my show Creative Pursuits here. The show is at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and up till April. Im not sure if it comes across in the pictures, but the show has a “Radioshack in the 90’s” kinda feel…

So, there have been some changes around here ……a new decade, a new design (thanks Intuit Small Business “web tools”!), a new URL, a new back end (wordpress), and even some new projects / things / whatever have been added to the “things i made” section………….I hope you like all these changes, ….(ps – if u r reading this in a feed reader of course nothing seems different, so please click here to see what i’m talking about)

So, first things first,…. I have new XML feeds. My news feed, which used to be here: http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/rss.xml, is now located here: http://www.coryarcangel.com/feed/atom/. I have put a redirect in, so you all should be fine, but some feed readers are pretty wonky, and also i’m pretty bad with these things, so i would suggest u unsubscribe from the old one, and subscribe to the new one,…thanks!.

Also I have added a new feed, one for my Hot Links, which is a combination of my activity on my delicious, my buzzfeed, my youtube, and my supercentral accounts. If you like web junk, this is the feed for you. That feed is here: http://www.coryarcangel.com/feed/lifestream-feed/, but of course you can just peep these on the home page as they are running in the left column, or the archive which is here.

So yeah, I’ve been meaning to do all of this for like 3+ years, so I am happy I finally got around to it. In the words of Jermaine Dupri, ”Cuff links come into your life when you get past 25, 30 years old.” Please shoot me an email if you notice anything not working or whatever…….& thanks again for visiting my website(!).

note: So basically its a totally improv’d perfomance with a bunch of instruments I have never seen before. There is a high probabilty it will be a total disaster (but that’s kinda the idea). I am looking forward to it

To Recap:

University of Mighican Museum of Art: Helmut Stern Auditorium
MASTER CLASS IN REVERSE
a NEW premiere performance…
Jan 16th @ 8 PM

University of Mighican Museum of Art: Project Gallery
CREATIVE PURSUITS
an art show
January 16 through April 11, 2010, Reception –> January 16, 6-8pm.
additional info here

ps – Also there is an “artist walkthrough” of the show at 130pm on Sunday………
pps – I just realized it’s the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and not the University of Michigan Art Museum, so please note that wherever I’ve screwed it up…..

Internet experts DRX and OLIA, have released a new book(!!!!), The Digital Folklore Reader. UPDATE: I’m such a moron that when I posted this yesterday, I forgot the link. One more time, its HERE.

The book features works and texts by me, Julia Boger, Manuel Buerger, Helene Dams, Dragan Espenschied, Jorg Frohnmayer, Mark Grimm, Christopher Heller, Yunchul Kim, Dennis Knopf, Stefan Krappitz, Florian Kroner, Tobias Leingruber, Olia Lialina, Leo Merz, Bernadette Neuroth, o+ro, johannes p osterhoff, Isabel Pettinato, Michael Rub, Theo Seemann, Alexander Schlegel, Bert Schutzbach, and Siegfried Zielinsky.

Here is a bit of text from the book:

Users’ endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.

Basically, if you r a geocities, or ASCII art, or BLINK, or marquee freak, this book is 4 u. The Internet is a wonderful place, and DRX and OLIA have tried to articulate this in the most archival form known to man …..the book. So in 2000 years people will still be able to read about the things that were once in the land called Anglefire. Christmas tree’s all across the world need this!!!!!.

So, if your in London please stop by the Lisson Gallery. I have done a thing there called “Lisson Presents” which is a series they have where they invite people to rummage through their archives and show what ever catches their eye. Since Lisson at one time or another has shown a ton of my all time fav artists, this was pretty fun. Works by Stephen Willats (a work from the 60’s as well as a new commission!!!!!), John Armleder, Ceal Foyer, Daniel Buren, Art and Language, & Rodney and Dan Graham…..ps – a few of my things will be on show as well. UPDATE picts here. Also, note from the 27th on, my video, Drei Klavierstucke op. 11 is gonna be on show in Salzburg at Ropac gallery. Of course you can watch it here, but Austria is an equally appropriate place as well. I would encourage both! More info here.

There are some recent shows where I am presenting some of my projects,…..if u r near please check them out: UAM @ California State University, Long Beach, Insiders @ CAPC – Musee d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, and Infinitesimal Eternity @ Yale (ps – they have also made a great looking PDF catalog of the show here).

Update: Also Bomb just posted an conversation I had with my teacher / friend Pauline Oliveros here.

So, Rhizome has posted a video of my performance I did @ the New Museum last fall (above). It’s kinda funny, though since its an hour long (….way to long in Internet land) the PDF version of the performance is here. Also, for whatever reason if you are the type of person who prefers bootlegs, see 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5.

I am happy to say that this Friday at 1700 hours, I have a show opening at the Netherlands Media Art Institute aka Montevideo. The show (named Depreciated) has stuff I made from the last 7 years, and is the first time I put alot of this stuff together at once. More info here. ps – there is an interview with me here as well.

Im an “insert” (showing just one piece……my vid A Couple Thousand Short Films About Glenn Gould) in a fun show called “Deterioration, they said” at the Migros Museum opening on the 28th! If your in Zurich check it out…..UPDATE: my new vid Drei Klavierstucke will be shown on Sept 5 as a “sit down” video screening.

As promised (to the 3 people who actually keep up with this site), I am pleased to present on “the Internet” my new video Drei Klavierstucke op. 11,……You can watch it and read about it here.

ps – If you wanna see it in person, its up at Kunsthaus Graz, and at Team Gallery in NYC…. I would encourage seeing it both ways….