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Cory Arcangel: 鉁庘晸鉁�
For his first solo exhibition in South Korea, American-born artist Cory Arcangel assembles a group of works that embodies his enduring interest in technological developments, the digital realm and how images and commodities circulate in a global context. Presenting video, performance, wallpaper and wall-mounted works, the exhibition encapsulates the breadth of Arcangel鈥檚 practice, and asserts his position as a pioneer of digital technology-based art.
In 2020, using a machine learning technology, Arcangel programmed a bot to scrape clickbait gossip websites. The artist explains that by 鈥榯oggling between two different articles, as if weaving sites together,鈥� this bot would identify key themes in the articles, passing them through Google Images to create a series of slideshows. These slideshows were accompanied by an automated voice that reads a nonsensical text generated by the bot using material sourced from the articles. From 2020 until late 2021, the videos were then uploaded to YouTube by the bot without the artist鈥檚 intervention.
Related to Your Interests assembles the entire 800+ video archive in a 2-week-long, single-channel video, presenting a bizarre, indecipherable blend of celebrity gossip, pop-cultural trends, tabloid snippets and related imagery. The audio track spills into the gallery space, providing a sensory backdrop to the exhibition that acts as a commentary on the 鈥榓malgamations of people and algorithms鈥� observed by the artist in recent technological developments.
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For his first solo exhibition in South Korea, American-born artist Cory Arcangel assembles a group of works that embodies his enduring interest in technological developments, the digital realm and how images and commodities circulate in a global context. Presenting video, performance, wallpaper and wall-mounted works, the exhibition encapsulates the breadth of Arcangel鈥檚 practice, and asserts his position as a pioneer of digital technology-based art.
In 2020, using a machine learning technology, Arcangel programmed a bot to scrape clickbait gossip websites. The artist explains that by 鈥榯oggling between two different articles, as if weaving sites together,鈥� this bot would identify key themes in the articles, passing them through Google Images to create a series of slideshows. These slideshows were accompanied by an automated voice that reads a nonsensical text generated by the bot using material sourced from the articles. From 2020 until late 2021, the videos were then uploaded to YouTube by the bot without the artist鈥檚 intervention.
Related to Your Interests assembles the entire 800+ video archive in a 2-week-long, single-channel video, presenting a bizarre, indecipherable blend of celebrity gossip, pop-cultural trends, tabloid snippets and related imagery. The audio track spills into the gallery space, providing a sensory backdrop to the exhibition that acts as a commentary on the 鈥榓malgamations of people and algorithms鈥� observed by the artist in recent technological developments.
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