Insectiside

Cory Arcangel in collaboration with Jamie Arcangel 

1992-2003, 7:29 min, color, sound

With Insectiside, Arcangel brings his strategically amateur aesthetic, which celebrates the excesses of the accidental and contingent, to a new level, re-presenting a home video that he made as a teenager in 1992. The video, which features the artist and his sister parodically yet lovingly performing as a heavy metal band, takes on new meaning beside Arcangel's recent work with music videos and the codes of pop culture.

Message my Brother Justin Left Me on my Cell from the Slayer Concert Last Week

Cory Arcangel 

2004, 2:27 min, b&w, sound

In this deadpan conceptual anecdote, Arcangel delivers exactly what his title promises. In doing so, he directs us to the ceaseless and apparently effortless movement of digital information; in this case, a translation of data from the private to the public, from audio to video, and from a transient, spontaneous communication to a replicable, distributable form.

Sir Drone

Raymond Pettibon. Featuring Mike Kelley

1989, 55:37 min, color, sound

Writes Mike Kelley: "Raymond Pettibon's intelligent drawings have long been favorites of mine. In 1988 he shot a number of feature-length tapes on home-video equipment. All of them concern American radical subjects: the Manson family, the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the S.L.A., the Weather...