Akron, Ohio, Jan. 18, 2006 – Cory Arcangel is a computer artist whose work is concerned with technology's relationship to culture and the creative process. On Friday, Feb. 3, 2006, at 6 p.m., Arcangel will lecture at The University of Akron’s Folk Hall auditorium, in the Myers School of Art. His lecture title is “How I Went from Modifying Nintendo Games to Giving Lectures about Simon and Garfunkel”. Arcangel explains that “My work is inspired by and functions as a means to understand my own media-saturated existence. Since the present and future is filtered through the past, my work with digital media technology is directly informed by my time spent with the likes of television, music, video games, and early Macintosh computers.”

In Akron, Arcangel will discuss his recent work which he says “involves issues with new media in relation to exhibition, web 2, ‘links’, Eddie Van Halen, Starbucks, and California.” The lecture is funded by the Myers Artist in Residence Program, and is free and open to the public – seating is limited.

Arcangel is a founding member of BEIGE, a group of computer programmers and enthusiasts who recycle obsolete computers and video game systems to make art and music and create new meanings. As part of the Emily Davis Gallery’s “Outside the Box: New Cinematic Experiences” exhibition at UA which runs Jan. 18 – Feb. 24, 2006, two of Arcangel’s game hacks are on display: Super Mario Clouds v2k3 and I Shot Andy Warhol. Cory Arcangel's work has been exhibited at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.