Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/12-11-2018 -Event 4

LB1: 13:00 - 16:00: Poor Images, Compression Aesthetics & Glitches with Javi

Interaction Station, WH.02.108 (Computer Room)

Resolution is one of the main features that define the quality of digital images. New generations of photo, digital film cameras regulary increase the maximum resolution of captured digital images.

We will discuss theories and artistic practices that embrace low resolutions, compression aesthetics and digital glitches, as a practice of resistance to the mainstream conventions of ultra-high resolutions.

Related readings:

• Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image.” e-flux (2009).
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/
• Rosa Menkman, “The Glitch Moment(um).” (2011).
• https://networkcultures.org/_uploads/NN%234_RosaMenkman.pdf
• Carolyn L. Kane, “Compression Aesthetics: Glitch From the Avant-Garde to Kanye West.” (2014).
• http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/compression-aesthetics-glitch-from-the-avant-garde-to-kanye-west/
• Mark Nunes, “Error. Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures.” (2010).
• Scott C.Koterbay & Lukasz Mirocha, “The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Post-Digital” (2016).