When I first saw this video installation in the Whitney Museum of American Art, I didn’t pay a lot of attention it, because I thought it’s just an artwork showing one iconic element in Super Mario. I didn’t even take a look at the description, but I did take a photo of it. What firstly surprises me is that this is actually not made by Ninetndo but Cory Arcangel, who describes Super Mario Clouds as “an old Mario Brothers cartridge which I modified to erase everything but the clouds.” In order to create this cloud, he hacked Nintendo’s NES game console and manipulated both hardware and software. To me, I don’t think it’s a hacking process. Especially after watching the video “Everything but the Clouds” by Patrick LeMieux, I see a slightly difference between this two version clouds. They just seem similar based on their image, but if you look deep into their process, you can’t actually tell these two are the same thing. Lastly, I would say that this is a kind of artwork by a remixing process.
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