CORY ARCANGEL AND PAPER RAD / 2005 / USA / COURTESY OF TEAM GALLERY, NEW YORK
Beginning with drawings by the artists collective Paper Rad (Ben Jones, Jessica Ciocci and Jacob Ciocci), Cory Arcangel meticulously converted their images into code, and then burned it onto a chip that he hand-soldered into an 8-bit cartridge of the first “Super Mario Bros” game for Nintendo. The result is “Super Mario Movie,” a fifteen-minute narrative projected live from a 1980's NES (Nin- tento Entertainment System) console. In it, Mario's world has begun to come apart at the pixels after two decades of neglect, and we see him in a vari- ety of altered states – weeping on a cloud, riding atop a magic carpet – before ultimately arriving at a rave party. A true collaboration in the art of me- dia obsolescence, “Super Mario Movie” showcas- es both Arcangel's well-known manipulation of old videogame technology as well as the hyperkinetic, neo-psychedelic stylings of Paper Rad.
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