Cory Arcangel, The Curve, Barbican

Submitted by Josh Spero on Wed, 09/02/2011 - 23:45
Courtesy of the artist, Lisson Gallery, Team Gallery and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

It is probably a worrying sign when the computer games of your youth become the historical butt of a conceptual art joke. Digital artist Cory Arcangel, who appropriates video-game technology, repurposes and redesigns it, has installed 14 10-pin bowling computer games in the Barbican's Curve gallery, and if you remember the earliest, an Atari, you're almost certainly as obsolescent as it is.