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 <with <computational articulations through specific aesthetic clashes and disjunctions, identified in the book as critical “flow-cut arrangements.” This book explores three dominant arrangements in Arcangel’s work--the flow-break hack, the flow-remix hack, and the flow-parody hack--which pinpoint areas of both creativity and concern before and after platform capitalism.

Autorentext

Eivind Røssaak; preface by Alexander R. Galloway

Inhalt
Acknowledgment
Preface by Alexander R. Galloway
Introduction: Cracking the Code

1. The Alchemy of Hacks and Flows
2. Flow-Break: Super Mario Clouds and ROM Hacking
3. Flow-Remix: From Supercuts to Working on My Novel
4. Flow-Parody: Bots and MonkeyRunners
   Conclusion: Withdrawal or Social Innovation?
   Notes
   List of Works
   List of Figures