User:Clàudia/personal-research

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Concepts behind glitch

  1. Obviousness of the digital medium
  2. Randomness
  3. Tension between reduction and excess [1]
  4. Tension between reification and critique [2]
  5. Tension between function an failure [3]
  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. [4]

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