Book launch for 'The Cory Arcangel Hack, Digital Culture & Aesthetic Practice' at MoMA PS1 Bookstore, 15 November

7 November 2025

Book Tickets

On 15 November from 4 – 6pm, MoMA PS1 presents a book launch for 'The Cory Arcangel Hack, Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice' by Eivind Røssaak. Cory Arcangel will be in conversation with Eivind Røssaak and Alexander R. Galloway.

This book is the first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines of Big Tech. Combining the hands-on skills from the 1990s net art scene and the 2010s post-internet art’s fondness for memes and the generic image, Arcangel demonstrated the way cultural expressions are intimately connected to media technologies and how these technologies can be pranked for cultural critique. In The Cory Arcangel Hack, Eivind Røssaak shows how Arcangel’s body of work defines a particular strain of post-conceptual art that is fundamental for understanding the digital world we live in.

Arcangel explores the potential and failures of old and new digital technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Applying a semi-archeological methodology, his practice explores, encodes, and hacks the structural language of video games, software, social media and machine learning — treating them as subject matter and medium.

Performance by Cory Arcangel at 4pm
Followed by conversation with Eivind Røssaak, and Alexander R. Galloway
MoMA PS1, Jackson Ave, Queens, NY, United States

Order signed copies of the book via MoMA PS1.

Image: Portrait of Cory Arcangel, 2015. Photographed by Tim Barber.