Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Glitch Art



I was interested to explore the connection between trash, waste and glitch. Here are some interesting quotes from the book  High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure by Carolyn L. Kane






How can be waste, as something unwanted and expelled from the system, inserted back into the system as the error message, a minor gesture destabilizing power. In this sense, artistic processes attempting to confuse hegemonic systems can be generally seen as glitches, or their action potential as glitching. (Most prominent example are all different ideas that attempt to obscure human faces as identifiable data by surveillance technologies).

Two artistic example:

Clement Valla
Postcards from Google Earth
http://www.postcards-from-google-earth.com/

Takeshi Murata, Monster Movie, 2005https://vimeo.com/147761897

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