what glitch art is and why it matters
The word "glitch" is already loaded with an aesthetic — highly saturated rainbow stripes and white noise chopping up an image, pixelated video streams in which the subjects' words don't match up with the audio, shimmering and twitching spots in video games. Although glitches are more often than not met with impatience or annoyance, a growing number of artists are aestheticizing errors from digital or analog sources, either by intentional manipulation or by malfunctions and corruptions like the ones we're already familiar with.
As we become more and more wrapped up in technology, glitch art has begun to be taken more seriously as a movement with a unique potential for timely cultural commentary, rather than just an aesthetic embraced by individual artists. Artists began actively connecting around this aesthetic on a larger scale as early as 2002 at the Glitch Symposium and Performance Event held in Oslo, but the medium only picked up serious momentum much more recently: showcases of glitch artists have occurred in several global cities in the past few months alone, from the UK's Tate Britain and Getty Images Gallery, to the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, and, most recently, San Francisco's Dogpatch Cafe & Art Gallery (currently on view until December 12th).
There are all kinds of ways to create or exploit a glitch for artistic purposes; not just any computer-based art can be called glitch art (see, for example, this beautiful code-generated art which doesn’t rely on glitches at all). Some processes are much more intentional and labor-intensive than others, making the glitch manipulation itself into something of an art. Some common ways for artists to encounter their glitch include:
what glitch art is and why it mattersThe word "glitch" is already loaded with an aesthetic — highly saturated rainbow stripes and white noise chopping up an image, pixelated video streams in which the subjects' words don't match up with the audio, shimmering and twitching spots in video games. Although glitches are more often than not met with impatience or annoyance, a growing number of artists are aestheticizing errors from digital or analog sources, either by intentional manipulation or by malfunctions and corruptions like the ones we're already familiar with.As we become more and more wrapped up in technology, glitch art has begun to be taken more seriously as a movement with a unique potential for timely cultural commentary, rather than just an aesthetic embraced by individual artists. Artists began actively connecting around this aesthetic on a larger scale as early as 2002 at the Glitch Symposium and Performance Event held in Oslo, but the medium only picked up serious momentum much more recently: showcases of glitch artists have occurred in several global cities in the past few months alone, from the UK's Tate Britain and Getty Images Gallery, to the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, and, most recently, San Francisco's Dogpatch Cafe & Art Gallery (currently on view until December 12th). There are all kinds of ways to create or exploit a glitch for artistic purposes; not just any computer-based art can be called glitch art (see, for example, this beautiful code-generated art which doesn’t rely on glitches at all). Some processes are much more intentional and labor-intensive than others, making the glitch manipulation itself into something of an art. Some common ways for artists to encounter their glitch include:
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