SKUTA HELGASON | DATE 11/15/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 presents Cory Arcangel, Eivind Røssaak and Alexander R. Galloway launching 'The Cory Arcangel Hack'

Saturday, November 15, from 4—6 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents the launch of The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice by Eivind Røssaak. Cory Arcangel will perform, alongside a conversation between Arcangel, Røssaak and Alexander R. Galloway. A Q&A will be followed by a signing and refreshments.

Event livestreamed on Instagram at @artbookps1.

Please RSVP for the event and pre-order a copy here.

"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

Cory Arcangel is an artist, and composer living and working in Stavanger, Norway. Arcangel explores the potential and failures of old and new digital technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Arcangel's notable works include Super Mario Clouds (2002), a modified version of the video game Super Mario Bros. in which all of the game's graphics have been removed, leaving a blue background with white clouds, and /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD (2017-2021), an AI video game playing computer. In 2014, Arcangel founded Arcangel Surfware, a software publisher and merchandise company. Notable brand releases include Arcangel's The Source zine series, and a first-time publishing of Tony Conrad's Music and the Mind of the World. Arcangel is the youngest artist since Bruce Nauman to have been given a full floor solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011).

Eivind Røssaak is Research Professor at the National Library of Norway’s Department of Research, Visual Media Section. A former Visiting Scholar at Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago, Cinematic Arts at USC, and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He has published and lectured widely on media aesthetics, media archaeology, archival experiments, and critical theory. He got his first computer, an Apple Macintosh SE, in 1987, and his first laptop, an Apple Powerbook 140, in 1992. During his school, college, and graduate school years, he worked as a musician, journalist, reviewer of cinema and literature, and wrote travelogues from around the world. He can still remember the sound of a modem and life without a smartphone.

Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, he is author of several books on digital media and critical theory. Galloway has given over two hundred talks both across the U.S. and in ten countries around the world. His writings have been translated into eleven languages. He is recipient of a number of grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and the Prix Ars Elect.


Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore
Cory Arcangel, Eivind Røssaak and Alexander R. Galloway launching 'The Cory Arcangel Hack'
Saturday, November 15, from 4—6 PM
22-25 Jackson Ave (at 46th Ave.)
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 433-1088
RSVP and pre-order a book here.