January 14, 2005
Super Mario Movie Opening
Super Mario Movie, a collaborative project by Cory Arcangel and Paperrad. Super Mario Movie is a hacked 8bit Super Mario Brothers 1 cartridge that plays a 15 minute movie using all original graphics from the game. The movie is about how Mario's world is falling apart. Like Mad Max, but in 8bits. Picture title screens, messed up fantasy worlds, castles floating on rainbow colored 8bit clouds, waterfalls, underwater dungeon nightmare rave scapes, dance parties, floating mushroom level scenes, Mario alone on a cloud crying, fireball flicker patterns, and video synth knitted at 60 frames per second seizure vidz. Each scene will also have music. And all of it is being generated by this one 32k 1984 cartridge. Basically it is Mario Brothers totally rearranged into this amazing impossible 8bit world. The entire exhibition will be 32k in size [the size of a normal jpg]. The catalogue/zine will be written by the Radical Software group's Alex Galloway, who just did an art project where he beat Mario Brothers and then made tablature on what buttons to press when to do it.
Deitch Projects
76 Grand between Wooster and Greene, Manhattan
6-8p; $free
212 343 7300
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/