ENDORSEMENTS
“Arcangel’s trajectory as an artist maps the palette of computing over the past decades. From beige to candy-colored and rainbow-hued to toxic orange and dollar blues, Eivind Røssaak captures this faithfully and in telling detail.”
—Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London
“Like Duchamp, Arcangel is a sly prankster. His media hacks are serious, challenging, and deeply funny. Røssaak shows why these aspects must be thought together to understand Arcangel’s conception of a contemporary art practice. Weaving together the technical and social mechanics through which we are threaded, Røssaak’s infrastructural analysis reveals Arcangel’s jokes as a window into the unconscious of our 21st-century media culture.”
—Andrew V. Uroskie, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
“Any one of Cory Arcangel’s artworks could hardly have been produced a day earlier, because he conjures ideas and materials from the cultural and technological ferment of the now. Røssaak studies a quarter century’s worth of Arcangel’s groundbreaking work in order to shed light on where we’ve been, how we were got here, and how one might resist the flow.”
—Seth Price, artist
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