2024/07/29

Cory Arcangel Reflects on the “Existential Stupidity” at the Heart of His Work

“There isn’t much difference between what I did with Super Slow Tetris and getting a team together to use machine learning to play the Kim Kardashian cellphone game. Both are defined by a kinda existential stupidity.”
– Artist Cory Arcangel, describing how his pratice has been “quite stable” over the two decades between his Nintendo Tetris mod (2004) and the computer he trained to play Kim Kardashian: Hollywood (2017-21)
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