Super Mario Clouds

Super Mario Clouds is a 2002 multi-channel video installation artwork by Cory Arcangel that displays a modified version of the video game Super Mario Bros. in which all game assets besides the sky and clouds are removed.

[3] Soon out of college, Arcangel shared the original Super Mario Clouds video and code on his website in 2002.

[4] The next year, Arcangel displayed the work as a multi-channel video installation at Team Gallery in New York, with the modified Nintendo Entertainment System console in view.

[5] In 2005, Arcangel created The Making of Super Mario Clouds as an instruction manual and video.

[1] Its presence at the 2004 Whitney Biennial heralded the arrival of new media artists with digital native backgrounds in the professional art world.

The artist in his studio, 2006