What is it?
Monday 16 June 2014 @ 00:14


Glitch Art

picture from here. 

What the experts think about it?

"Glitch is a cyborg art, building on human/computer interaction. The patterns created by these unknown processes is what I call the wilderness within the machine." - Motherboard

"There's not much Glitch in Glitch Art." - Motherboard

"It's not a bug, it's a feature: the rise of glitch art." - Grace Wong, The Guardian

"Seeking perfect imperfection..." - Iman Moradi

"Glitch: A poetry of Error." - Jeff Donaldson

"The wilderness in the machine" - Christina, G., Interactive

"Glitch art - The beauty of Imperfection." - Sebastian Waack


What is glitch art?

An aesthetic of the digital age, our gadgets are imperfect. With electronic devices come bugs, with bugs come malfunctions and with malfunctions come glitches. And from this: glitch art, a celebration of these technological mishaps. Sometimes the glitch aesthetic is synthesized in non-digital mediums, but more often the glitch is recreated in a digital environment by either reproducing the conditions that caused it or by manipulating them. - The creators project

Simplify definition of glitch art, glitch art is an unexpected blast of pixelated, hallucinatory jagged lines spreading across our TVs and computer screens.

Where did it come from?

The first recorded use of the term “glitch” in the English language is attributed to US astronaut John Herschel Glenn who, during a routine space program, used the word to describe technical problems they were experiencing. When asked to explain himself he said, "Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current.” Now the term is used to describe any malfunction or mishap. Aesthetically and formally speaking, “glitch art” recalls the geometric art of abstract modernists and cubists, and the many ways in which artists like John Cage experiment with chance and spontaneity are similar to the practice of glitch artists. - The creators project

Classification of Glitches by Iman Moradi

Pure Glitch
Accidental, Coincidental, Appropriated. Found, Real
 Glitch-alike
Deliberate, Planned, Created, Designed, Artificial

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Being apply into various mediums

Photography
David Szauder - Failed Memory. 2013.
 

"Our brains store away images to retrieve them later, like files stored away on a hard drive. But when we go back and try to re-access those memories, we may find them to be corrupted in some way.”





Interactive installation 
Glitch dance by PPLC (n.d)

PPLC has a creative and interactive experience in store for the festival guests, a hybrid of experimental music and ornate imagery – It incorporates the guests into the experience by mirroring they’re motion into the interaction between image and sound. The reactions and moments created are recorded and transcribed into acoustic and visual energy. Consequently the guests are the protagonists, generating the flowing, changing overall experience and creating the symbiotic interactive atmosphere.


Exhibition installation
Glitch by Melvin Galapon 2010.



Interactive Website
FUTURE, UNPREDICTABLE. by Hakuhodo I-Studio 2014.


Animation
Adventure time: A glitch is a glitch (Episode 119). 2013


Movies/Films
The Kodak Moment by Michael Betancourt. 2013



The LEGO® Movie . 2014


Music Video
The Glitch Mob - Can't Kill Us by beetle. 2014.


 Fashion
Glitch Coat by Nukeme and Ucnv. 2013. 



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Additional information

Learn to create glitch art

There is a short course available in the US which teaches all the foundational knowledge to create visual glitch art. [link] 

They also showcase their students artworks and their working processes on their website.

Museum appreciates and accepts Glitch

MOGA: Museum of Glitch Aesthetics. [link]

The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale. [link]

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Research supports with articles/papers

The Glitch Aesthetic by Rebecca Jackson. [link]

Seeking Perfect Imperfection. A personal retrospective on Glitch Art by Iman Moradi. [link]

Glitch Art Historie[s] - contextualizing glitch art by Nick Briz. [link]

Glitch: Designing Imperfection by Iman Moradi.

The Fine Art of Glitches. Cheats And Errors. by Mathias Jannson. [link]

GLI.TC/H Theory. [link]

A Beginner's Guide to Glitch Art. by Kyle Chayka. [link]