"In a world of innovative technology, glitching explores the beauty of faults, bugs, and glitches in digital files"
Donaldson, J. (n.d.). Glossing over thoughts on glitch: A poetry of Error.
Donaldson, J. (n.d.). Glossing over thoughts on glitch: A poetry of Error.
As a contemporary art form, glitch art holds value in showing the beauty through our faults rather than bringing us down for them. As artists and as people, we are perfectly imperfect. Creating and viewing glitch art is a celebration of these elements of life that we may not be proud to show off, but are part of what makes us unique. Applying the use of glitch art in an art education setting strengthens young artists' ideology of what it means to embrace every bit of themselves wholeheartedly and with pride. It is okay to have plans fall short and ideas not work out, but we will never run out of the ambition to be innovative creators working to better ourselves and the world of which we live in. Glitch art provides a platform for these redefined routes to innovation to begin.
Glitching began by malfunction and has gained a new meaning for some artists are they purposefully manipulate technology to create glitch art. Image editors and glitch generators have even been developed to speed up the process of glitching- although this method loses some of its meaning (and fun!) as the element of chance dwindles away as the creator can slide a bar back and forth to alter the image to their liking. Through the manual method of creating glitch art, the artist goes in to the coding that makes up the image itself and adds, subtracts, or shifts around the text that makes up the coding. This can be done at random or with mindful moves. When creating my glitch art, I allowed for every element change to be up to chance and made moves at random in hopes to mimic what a piece of technology would be doing had it naturally glitched my file.
Glitching began by malfunction and has gained a new meaning for some artists are they purposefully manipulate technology to create glitch art. Image editors and glitch generators have even been developed to speed up the process of glitching- although this method loses some of its meaning (and fun!) as the element of chance dwindles away as the creator can slide a bar back and forth to alter the image to their liking. Through the manual method of creating glitch art, the artist goes in to the coding that makes up the image itself and adds, subtracts, or shifts around the text that makes up the coding. This can be done at random or with mindful moves. When creating my glitch art, I allowed for every element change to be up to chance and made moves at random in hopes to mimic what a piece of technology would be doing had it naturally glitched my file.