Art by Michael Cina. I will listen to one over and over again for weeks, or sometimes months with exceptions for dance music, contemporary classical, and other forms which can be single heavy. For this selection, I've picked some Sunday style cuts which are on some of the records I've roamed through over the last few years.
I can highly recommend the albums behind some of these! Cory Arcangel born , Buffalo, NY is an artist, composer, curator, and entrepreneur living and working in Stavanger, Norway.
Applying a semi-archeological methodology, his practice explores, encodes, and hacks the structural language of video games, software, social media, and machine learning, treating them as subject matter and medium. Was it more akin to pranksterism or signal hijacking or was it just a general joie de vivre of the internet age?
With more adult eyes, I can better understand the archival and almost desperate aspects of his art or the capturing of moments with an increasingly kinetic and dependent set of conditions for it to exist. The meaning of the work, like all great works, changes with time. Have we finally become Mario, fully inside his world?
Is this a sort of afterlife or a retirement from the economic and careerist speedrunning these games taught us to do? Skies also feel like a potential forebear to liminal spaces , sharing that haunting netherworld of feeling, something lost in the ether beneath the commerce layer.
