Status Updates From Cory Arcangel: Beige

“Seen in formal aesthetic terms, the abstract videos belong to the tradition of German Absolute Films of the 1920s, which sought to attain a filmic, that is to say, time-determined form of painting - major protagonists of this movement were Walter Ruttmann with his film Lichtspiel Opus I (1921) and Viking Eggeling's Diagonal-Symphonie (1924).”

“A video clip lasting almost ten-minutes is produced, featuring colorful, wildly dickering patterns in squares, which recognize no rules or repeating schemes. The visuals are accompanied by a dark, background noise - an attempt to visualize the computer's unconscious.”

“In their artistic works Arcangel and BEIGE consists formulate a media critique that highlights how mud creative artistic process is now dependent on and die by computer programs and their already determined parameters.”

“The moment the mampulated cartridges placed in the game console the white clouds, which have n he continuously regenerated, advance jerkily across the blue sky. The game undergoes a narrative cleaning process, the dynamic is Short-circuited and reduced to a monochrome background. The work's Minimalist aesthetic reveals clear references to abstract monochrome painting.“ pg 14

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“the notation system in music bears precise comparison to the programming and hacking of computer systems.”

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