This week on Motherboard Cory Arcangel invites us into his Brooklyn studio to give us a peek behind-the-scenes to see how his clever brand of Youtube-infused digital art gets made. For the last ten years, Cory’s been the rare sort of guy who can work extensively with technology without losing his creative intuition or being broken by the cold boringness that traps so many others in the medium. As one of the very few art-world savants who actually understands the raw beauty contained in a video mash-up, we ask for and receive a run down of his favorite internet videos. He also briefs us on everything from his earliest work to the infamous “Mario Clouds” and on through his enlightened treatise on jpeg compression and his recreation of Arnold Schoenberg’s 1999 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke comprised entirely of Youtube cats playing piano.
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