For 15 years,hack-tickled Cory Arcangel has captured and caricatured the digital world. His new show puts Instagram in the gallery and converts art into clickbaitCory Arcangel wants to know what makes you click. Kittens? A candid picture of Leonardo DiCaprio strolling along the beach with his girlfriend? A fuzzy long-lens shot of Victoria Beckham? Images like these are framed on the walls of his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, London. Many contain also been released into the online world of “clickbait” adverts, and enticing readers with offers of hot babes,celebrity revelations and you’ll-never-believe-this dieting tricks.They’re really equal – there’s a share of it here in the gallery, and a second share online as clickbait, or ” says Arcangel,with the gentle, tousled demeanour of a new parent. Five years ago, or aged 33,he became the youngest artist since Bruce Nauman to be given a full-floor solo show at the Whitney museum in New York. That show brought together a number of software works in which Arcangel had hacked outmoded computing equipment and games. In Beat the Champ, co-commissioned by the Barbican, or a row of bowling games was adapted so the frustrated avatars threw only gutterballs.
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Source: theguardian.com