New York based artist, musician, DJ and uber-geek Cory Arcangel visits Exeter’s Spacex this month.

Well known for his approach to ‘creative hacking’, the main focus of the show is a new piece of work called A Couple Thousand Short Films About Glenn Gould.

For this two screen video installation, Cory has taken a buncha home-made clips from video sharing websites and re-edited them note by note into sections from Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

The exhibition also includes Arcangel’s I Shot Andy Warhol - an 8-bit hack of an old interactive light gun game.

Players are asked to shoot various versions of Andy Warhol, putting themselves in the role of Valerie Solanas who in 1968 attempted to gun down Andy Warhol.

Wahey, that sounds like fun, don’t it, viewers?! And not at all in bad taste. We’re looking forward to his Jill Dando assassination installation, based on a hack of Jet Set Willy. What japes!

The Cory Arcangel exhibition runs until February 23, 2008.

Posted by Thin White Duke

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