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When people think of glitch, they usually associate it with the feelings of irritation and frustration. Its unpleasant presence has led to the refusal of seeing beauty in glitch. My work, âFlawed Perfectionâ attempts to bring a connection to both sides of glitch; its beauty and also its beast. My piece contains a collection of audio and visual works which work together to produce an artwork for todayâs Information Age. Through glitch, we are able to become more intimate with the computer; we are able to see the way computers process data, which we take for granted until it breaks down. As we are living in a world where science and technology is continuing to advance, I decided to provide a new perspective on iconic places all over the world through the intimacy with technology that glitch provides.
Living in the Digital Age, there is an overabundance of information; so much that there are redundancies. The informationâs short life span due to the speed of innovation and communication in our culture also results in increasing amounts of useless data. In response to this, Joachim Blank and Karl Heinz Jeron have created an art generator, âDump Your Trash!â, to convert homepages into into sandstone. Their work has âironically blur[red] the thin dividing line separating information from disinformationâ. Here, glitch art techniques were used to recycle old information to create art. The uncommon use of glitch to repurpose rather than to malfunction had inspired me to create my final piece. Through the use of iconic places that are known to people of todayâs society, my work is using glitch to not only improve upon it, but to also re-contextualise our world to conform to the culture that we have developed to. The intimacy that glitch provides through its revealing of computing processes suggests the underlying beauty of the Digital Age that people in todayâs society may even forget that weâre living in.
Glitch is not usually associated with beauty; or rather, people donât usually have the patience to spend time with glitch and to appreciate its aesthetics. Peder Norrbyâs âMapglitchâ consists of a collection of glitches that he had discovered overtime while using Appleâs map app. Peder Norrby stated that âI think that is where most originality comes from â failures. In my own work, I often make mistakes, or âbugsâ as we call them, when programming computers. It is easy to go, âAh, dammit, now it's wrong again,â but I try to pace myself and really look if there is anything interesting that came out, rather than quickly discarding it as a bugâ. My work attempts to illustrate the good and bad of glitch through my composition of audio and visuals. When looking at the edited images, the iconic places look more interesting due to the great detail as caused by glitch. However, the audio appears to be annoying and piercing to the ears. The irritation caused by the loud white noise, creates discomfort and frustration, which prevents the audience from appreciating the images that have been created through glitch. The oxymoron âFlawed Perfectionâ demonstrates the idea of creating perfection through the use of glitch. However, even though glitch can be seen as perfect, it may be seen as a flaw in other forms; such as audio. Â
Glitch is a random and unexpected malfunction in a system. In order to embrace its beauty, artists have reverse engineered methods to create glitch in the most authentic way. Michael Betancourtâs Dancing Glitch utilises âanimation, digital compositing, databending, data moshing and decryption errorsâ to create very interesting glitch effects with overwhelming detail. In order to create a natural looking glitch, I decided to use databending as my method of creating glitch art. The images are edited in an audio editing software using audio effects such as echo, phaser and equalisation. Then they are converted back into images. For the images I had converted it into an audio file then glitched it. Â But for the audio clip, I used my poster, âThe Ignorance of Self Defectâ, which had already been bugged using the WordPad databending method and converted it into audio. The result was the contrast between flaws and perfection. In âFlawed Perfectionâ, I attempt to compare the negative perspective of glitch that I have been investigating during my process of making the poster and paired it with the beauty that I have seen in glitch after further research.
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