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Cory Archangel explores the expressive potential of consumer software. With Photoshop Gradient and Smudge Tool Demonstration (2007 – 2023) he foregrounds Photoshop’s gradient tool, which fades one color into another. These two works, made 15 years apart, were created using similar commands. The contrast between the gestural dynamism of the earlier version and the minimalist geometry of its later counterpart reveals a trend towards reduction and simplification – contradicting common assumptions about technological advancement.
Photographed in the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles.
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What is art? That’s not an easy question to answer, and art critics and artists have been debating the topic for a long time. For instance, when photography first emerged, people said it was not an art form. The same happened with film, and with readymade objects like Duchamp’s classic Fountain, which was simply a signed urinal. Over the years, many have suggested that anything can be art when an artist calls it art or it is displayed in a gallery. Since the 1980s, there has been a new debate: are video games art? As you would expect, many people claim that video games are indeed an art form while many others vehemently refute that video games can be art.
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For this installation, entitled Super Mario Clouds (2002), Cory Arcangel hacked into and modified a cartridge of a Super Mario Bros, the blockbuster Nintendo videogame released in the United States in 1985. By tweaking the game’s code, the artist erased all of the audio and visual elements except for the iconic, fluffy white clouds that scroll endlessly across the bright blue sky.
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