{"id":9337,"date":"2012-01-05T00:02:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T05:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:49:00","slug":"cory-arcangel-urbandale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9337","title":{"rendered":"Cory Arcangel &#8211; Urbandale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/11_05\/Cory_Arcangel\/urbandalePNG1.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/urbandale.jpg' alt='urbandale'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/11_05\/Cory_Arcangel\/urbandalePNG1.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Urbandale<\/em> (2000, 43MB, 7:30 min.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Urbandale&#8221;, an ASCII\/ANSI movie by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coryarcangel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Arcangel<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8220;Filmed at Urbandale Plaza in the eastern suburbs of Buffalo N.Y.,<br \/>\n&#8220;urbandale&#8221; is a study of America&#8217;s suburban sprawl stripped to its barest<br \/>\nessentials and void of unnecessary contemporary cultural influence. This<br \/>\nfilm captures the sly, bland smile strip plazas cast at modern culture.<br \/>\nThe film, rendered in text, focuses on the repetitive motion of food<br \/>\nstuffs being cooked in the lobby of a discount department store.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Urbandale&#8221; was a 2000 commission of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Radio_and_Performing_Arts\" target=\"_blank\">New_Radio_and_Performing_Arts<\/a> for it&#8217;s Turbulence project.<br \/>\nPS<br \/>\nThis is a mp4 version of the original urbandalePNG video. (quality of the video has been degraded)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urbandale (2000, 43MB, 7:30 min.) &#8220;Urbandale&#8221;, an ASCII\/ANSI movie by Cory Arcangel. &#8220;Filmed at Urbandale Plaza in the eastern suburbs of Buffalo N.Y., &#8220;urbandale&#8221; is a study of America&#8217;s suburban sprawl stripped to its barest essentials and void of unnecessary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,1,17,33,25,14,59,47,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract","category-arts","category-community","category-conceptual","category-documentary-odd","category-experimental","category-newmediaart","category-observational","category-satire","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11646,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/11646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}