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Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image on View at Museum of Contemporary Art

NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the first comprehensive U.S. museum survey of Cory Arcangel, a pioneer in the use of digital technologies in contemporary art. The exhibition Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and will be on view through May 9, 2010. The exhibition features significant works from 2002 to the present, including new works produced in early 2010. Taking a comprehensive view of Arcangel’s diverse practice, the exhibition includes videos, video game consoles, film, photographic prints, sculpture, drawings, web-based work, sound, and performance. Arcangel’s conceptual interventions into consumer technology brought him to prominence in the early 2000’s through his alterations of Nintendo games. Since then, Arcangel has continued to question the visual appearances, uses, and longevity of consumer technology, examining how it