User:Clàudia/personal-research

Concepts behind glitch

1. Obviousness of the digital medium
2. Randomness
3. Tension between reduction and excess
4. Tension between reification and critique
5. Tension between function an failure
6. The more intensified a technical system, the more error and breakdown figure as potent metaphors of dysfunction and anti- communication in material critiques of the media. Thus a paradox lies at the heart of the electronic glitch: the more one attempts to control, to functionalize culture through new technologies, the more does one also proliferate glitches and errors.

Artists who use glitch

1. Paul B Davis
2. Rosa Menkman
3. Sabato Visconty
4. Nick Briz
5. Nam June Paik

Reflections

The glitched images I have been making, are made by changing the code of the image as if it was text. Therefore, when the image is decompressed, it looks different. This is not a glitch in the technology. However, it is a glitch in the aesthetic of the image.

Kinds of glitch

Here I am trying to detect different kind of Glitches:

1. Technical glitch
2. Aesthetic glitch
3. Conceptual glitch
4. Functional glitch

Text references

1. Compression Aesthetics: Glitch From the Avant-Garde to Kanye West

Visual references

1. Paul B Davis video that mixes Umbrella by Rihanna with Zombie by Cranberries

Glitch for comercial purposes

1. Kanye West, Welcome To Heartbreak ft. Kid Cudi

Workshop with Lust, 1st part: 7/10/2016

Git with the explanation and materials of the workshop

My work consists on glitching one of the scripts they showed us . This script is called Webgrider, and it's functionality is to show the layout of a webpage. The input is a webpage, and the output, an image of the website layout. I decided to make a functional glitch , changing the look and aesthetics of the output. Thus, making the output an artistic image, rather than a functional one.

Conventional output of the program

Website used: E-FLUX

distribution Functional output

Glitched program output

distribution Glitched output I

distribution Glitched output II

distribution Glitched output III

distribution Glitched output IV

distribution Glitched output V

distribution Glitched output VI

distribution Glitched output VI