Each day during the month of January 2003, Arcangel took the computer memory file and converted it into a movie that reinterpreted his day's work on the computer--resulting in a computerized translation of his day.

Also glimpsed through the train's picture windows are the Western movie backdrops of the Santa Susana Pass near Simi Valley, the horrific mudslide at La Conchita, the double security fence and guard towers of the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, a lamentable web of earthquake cracks in the facade of Mission San Miguel Arcangel near Paso Robles, and the hypnotically geometric rows of crops in the Salinas Valley.

Cory Arcangel segued rather quickly from the realm of Internet message boards and digital-media festivals to that of contemporary-art galleries and museums, borne aloft by the art world's embrace of all things adolescent (here video games in particular) and also by his ability to connect with broader themes, including appropriation and reuse, material specificity, and the mastery of technique.