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Super Mario Clouds v2k3

2003

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Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds v2k3, 2003 (installation view, Synthetic, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2009). Modified Super Mario game cartridge; Nintendo System. Edition no. 2/5. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 2005.10

For this installation, Cory Arcangel hacked into an old Super Mario Brothers video game and altered it by removing the characters, the scenery, and the sound, so there is nothing left except the sky and the clouds that scroll across it.

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Cory Arcangel talks about video games, computers, and his work, Super Mario Clouds.

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Printout of Cory Arcangel’s picture of clouds, markers or crayons

Think about a video game that you like. What would you like to change about it? What would you remove from the game? Why?
What would you add to Cory Arcangel’s picture of clouds to create your own game?
Print out the picture and use markers or crayons to add your own drawings to it.

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Cory Arcangel’s picture of clouds.

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