Event Item: 00262

Cory Arcangel: Beat the Champ

Exhibition: 10th Feb 2011 to 22nd May 2011

Source: http://www.barbican.org.uk

Brooklyn-based Cory Arcangel is one of the leading media artists of his generation. He often appropriates, manipulates and subverts new media, including video games, computer software and the internet.

Arcangel's project for The Curve, a co-commission with Whitney Museum of American Art, is an installation featuring 14 bowling video games from the 1970s to the 2000s. Using custom manufactured electronics, Arcangel has hacked each unit to play a loop of a game in which the bowler fails to score.

For more information please see The Barbican's listing here