Cory Arcangel Begins His Photoshop Gradients

Cory Arcangel’s Photoshop Gradient and Smudge Tool Demonstration would go on to become some of the most well known software-based work of the decade. Arcangel continues his work exploring gradients to this day (2024) and the work has been acquired by the Whitney Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Arcangel became known a few years prior for his work creating videos from old video games, “applying archaeology to historical computer technology of the 1980s,” according to Thaddaeus Ropac, his gallery.