Cory Arcangel is a New Media artist
that uses old video game cartridges and modifies them to play different aspects
of the actual game play. Cory not only modifies these games, but also makes it
possible for people to play them themselves through . An example of his work
was titles Totally Fucked, which was created in 2002. Totally Fucked is a Super
Mario Bros game that was modified to have the game character Mario standing on
a single cube with out anything else around. I found this piece to be
interesting due to how it was modified. Nowadays when people modify games, it
is to bring new experiences to the games, such as new quests, dialogue options,
and more. But what Cory Arcangel did was essentially destroying the game,
making it impossible for Mario to do anything other than standing on a cube.

John F. Simon Jr. is another
interesting New Media artist. He has created different simple, yet complicated,
animations. One animation in particular from 2002 is titled Unfolding Object.
Unfolding Object is an animation that the user has to click on to make the
object continue unfolding. I thought this piece was interesting because it made
me want to see how far the unfolding would go, which was surprisingly a lot. I
have included the link to the animations webpage at the bottom so that other
viewers may try it too.

http://webart.guggenheim.org/unfoldingobject/