Art's 'Star Search'; This year's Whitney Biennial is unusually cheery--but it can still be a do-or-die deal.

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Byline: Peter Plagens

"I'm so nervous, I gave myself a rash," says Cory Arcangel, 26. Arcangel is a video and performance artist; in a week he's got to do the performance part of his gig in the Whitney Museum's just-opened Biennial exhibit of contemporary art. Meanwhile, he's also fretting as a technician tweaks the background blue in his video-projection piece, "Super Mario Clouds v2k3," a riff on the old videogame. With electronic art you never know when the machinery might conk out.

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