'Cory Arcangel: Artworks Will Change Over Time' via Louisiana Channel

17 June 2025

In January 2025, Cory Arcangel was interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen at his studio in Stavanger, Norway. Cory Arcangel has used digital technologies and humour to explore the world around him since starting as an artist in the early 00s.

“It’s just trying to think, I’ve got all these tools, how could I hook them together and create something interesting. Or in my case, often, how could I do the stupidest possible thing?” Cory Arcangel explains from his studio in Stavanger, Norway. “It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I realised that that stuff could be art.” Back in 2002, while still living in New York, Arcangel created the piece Super Mario Clouds, which would become an immediate hit in the art world. By reprogramming the iconic video game, the viewer is left with only the clouds floating slowly across the screen. No Mario, no coins to be collected, no game. “The idea was: What if I made landscape art, or what would pop art look like if it were made in this structure?”

A couple of years ago, the artist and his wife settled in Stavanger, Norway, where his wife got a job. Skyscrapers and the fast-paced life of New York were exchanged for fjords and a new way of life. The shift affected Arcangel and his art: “I realised that art has almost no relationship to the normal world,” he says and explains: “In fact, the whole – or a whole – point of a certain type of art, and especially the art that I make, is that it has no use, that it has no clear meaning, that it can’t be pinned down.”

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