Timeless Standard
2013
Cory Arcangel's *Timeless Standard* engages with the artist's ongoing fascination with technology, popular culture, and the systems that shape contemporary life. The work reflects Arcangel's signature approach of repurposing and recontextualizing familiar media and digital formats to expose their underlying structures and cultural assumptions. Through this piece, Arcangel invites viewers to consider the tension between permanence and obsolescence in an era defined by rapid technological change.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
June 26, 2018
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Artists in conversation
Hito Steyerl
German · b. 1966
Steyerl shares Arcangel's critical examination of digital systems, media formats, and the cultural assumptions embedded in technology. Her conceptual video and new media works similarly interrogate the tension between obsolescence and permanence in contemporary digital life.
Rafaël Rozendaal
Dutch · b. 1980
Rozendaal works within a post-internet and new media framework, repurposing digital formats and internet aesthetics to expose the underlying structures of contemporary networked culture. His minimalist digital works parallel Arcangel's approach of using familiar technological systems as conceptual material.
Olia Lialina
Russian · b. 1971
Lialina is a pioneering net art and new media artist who critically examines digital formats, popular online culture, and the systems shaping contemporary technological experience. Her work closely mirrors Arcangel's interest in recontextualizing familiar digital media to reveal cultural assumptions about technology and obsolescence.
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