LukeChengCOFA1002

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MAJOR WORK 

STATEMENT:

I wanted to tell a story, a story within my documentation as well as my art piece in order to create a complete piece of work and have an ending to what seemed to be a never ending research task. Though the brief claimed Tumblr to be documentation and not a diary but I felt as if my style complimented the lighter tone and mood that matched my personality. My final art piece was mostly a gradual advancement and combination of techniques from the various of artworks and artists. Since the start I began to see glitching differently to those around me. I found glitching to be more than just digital art but related it heavily with our personal lives, experiences and events as continuously explored in my previous assessment.

“This is where my concept lies, the notion that our personal lives are forever glitching. Leading to different directions, viewpoints, changes and explorations that changes us and makes us who we are as individuals. It is due to these unavoidable circumstances of failure and exploration that allows us to explore creative possibilities with our lives” – statement (assessment 1)

When writing that last assignment, I knew that I wanted to talk about my personal life through failure, loss and exploration and how those can be seen as glitches which ultimately allows us to advance in better light. (Recommended to re-read my previous statement)

http://lukechengcofa1002.tumblr.com/post/126884068138/final-project-glitching

Like the output of a HEX (glitching) file, photographs allow us to document the glitched output (process) of our lives . I chose photographs (from the past) as my main median as both the background and silhouette overlay as it essentially records the unavoidable glitching process which are our lives. With each step we take, we are creating new memories, overwriting old ones and learning from it all. The question asks to explore the possibilities of glitch and to me, our lives are that very definition of glitching. My experiments with destruction of the past let to various findings which all fine tuned my concept. The destruction of the graduation photo was special as it allowed me to focus on the importance of the event as the photo was slowly glitched away.

My artwork is no longer art to me, it’s a part of me and what I wanted to experience coming into this research task. I didn’t have to explore my past, I didn’t have to look through my old photos and crying over them and all the memories that come from it. I wanted to experience what it was like again. What it was like to have a brother. My younger brother (Adam) passed away August 10th 2005. This was my way to connect with him again. Like a glitch, his death was unexpected. An irregularity and disruption in my system. In the short term, I had to live alone for weeks at the age of 12 but at the time and reflecting on it now I never thought it would have bettered my own life to this degree. That was my glitch. The event that costed everything but allowed myself to see everything. To me this assignment has gone beyond glitching in any form of the imagination but my artwork does what I need it to do and that’s to remember and recall the output of this glitch as if it was just a normal Hex glitched file. Since his death we were introduced to God, from that it has changed my life. That few weeks alone at the age of 12 has taught me more than any school or course has ever taught me. Like how glitching finds errors and allows the user to fix it, events within our lives are also able to allow the user to find better light. It was because of that glitch that I’ve developed this caring/ ongoing and extroverted nature as I was bought up since then to live what he couldn’t. Throughout my major images include Adam and the best memories I had with him. It’s seen throughout the background, forground and mid-ground and is the makeup of the photos but underlying the memories is the silhouette of me. These are the memories and glitches that push me to becoming and exploring being a better individual and is the underlying message behind all of my photos.

With my documentation I always explored on context and how glitching directly alters most of the image and strips away the context that makes the story as seen through wax, fire and digital manipulation as explored in previous experiments. If I never disclosed my story and context, the effect of the artwork is largely diminished just by viewing these images. They are powerful, they are meaningful not just to me but to those around me. These are all techniques that were common through the viewing of the artists I reviewed.

After exploring déjà vu as a literal glitch within our memories, I stumbled across his artwork coincidently named “déjà vu” – Nigel Cox which provided the gloomy, spacious and isolated mood seen so commonly with his art pieces. He found beauty within silence and allowed me to create a sense of memory and remembrance which was important to my idea of life’s glitch and how these glitches are necessary actively and subconsciously to our continuation. Jasper Jame’s artworks are obviously influential as he played with high contrast situations and silhouettes to creating the same effect that Nigel did. Erik Johansson on the other hand has always been influencial being one of my favourite artists with his intricate detailing with lighting and creativity. His work simply amazes me and I had to mention it in my documentation. With my artwork I combined all of their ideas with my own sense of memories with childhood images to create in my eye a precious art piece that holds so much value within me having brought up a topic that hasn’t been brought up in a long time.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/photography

Article Title: Quotes About Photography

http://www.traceymcnee.com/index.php?page=cox#

Article Title: Nigel Cox - Figurative oil paintings, solitary figures in broad landscapes, Irish artist, buy art, Glasgow gallery & London gallery, regular exhibitions - Tracey McNee Fine Art

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/14/psychology-neuroscience

Article Title: The science behind memory glitches

http://www.njcox.com/gallery-iv.html

Website Title: NIGEL COX -

Article Title: GALLERY IV

http://www.jasperjames.co.uk/project/people-and-places-2/

Article Title: City Silhouettes : JASPER JAMES - PHOTOGRAPHER - BEIJING CHINA

http://www.erikjohanssonphoto.com

Article Title: Erik Johansson’s Works 

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Update

Throughout working through and developing my final work, I always thought our end project had to relate completely to the initial statement question but after reading the brief it seems that it’s more as if the question was a gateway for us to see and experience more. If this is the case than the direction I am taking now is allowing me to connect deeper with my past and explore the my previous statement on how events with our own personal lives are essentially the traditional sense of glitching as it allows us to grow and develop as individuals.  With practice led research in mind I feel as if the further I dig the more I can do and the more I am doing so I’ll continue this path until I finish with a piece of work that I am happy with.

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Context Glitching - Experiment

In this experiment I wanted to bring in the personal aspect of my life as the audience will unfold during my concept statement and presentation (which will be important). These photos are selected because they are special to me in a personal way, allowing me to reflect on the past and my experiences. This process of glitching/editing allowed me to remember these past experiences in new light.  What I’ve done was to add glitching effects into photos and removing the individuals involved, stripping away all context. In doing so, I’ll be the only one that could recognize the people and memories associated with the time period. At one point I developed these to be my final works and talk about how the art of glitching away context is able to bring an individual closer to his their past but I felt as if that idea was too general and not in depth enough and is why I wanted to work more along the sense of memory. But the current issue is that I am scared that I am straying away from the original question to the point where I’ll be losing marks if I continue to explore my past/memories/experiences but I don’t think I can stop with these pieces of works. 

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Major Work Inspiration - Research/Experimentation

Jasper James - Photography Jasper James was a photographer/artist that I stumbled across through my mother one day as she flipped through WeChat (China’s facebook equivalent) and it’s artistic nature and technique was perfect for what I had in mind. I found it amazing both the timing and coincidence of my mother finding Jasper and later found out that Jasper James was from the same area (Shanghai) as my mother’s birth place. Jasper was able to replicate the technique I was thinking of using for my final piece which was both a huge boost in direction and motivation as he manipulated his images through the power of high contrast situations with some help with photoshop. 

Like the previous artist I mentioned (Nigel Cox), Jasper also bases his image of isolation as he takes the subjects over the city walls. The angles, lighting and mood all reflects on this lonely and searching mood throughout his images and makes the audience wonder behind the context of the person (subject). 

Learning from Jasper and Nigel alike I wanted to take a set of photos (self portraits) just to experiment with this mood setting and see what can come out of the photos. I was able to setup my camera on a tripod and use my smartphone as a remote trigger to the camera and began to pose and take photos. I went into my friends house and setup my shot because of the large window that allowed light to flood through creating a silhouette effect like Jasper does whilst providing that blank space that Nigel uses. 

I wanted to recreate this sense of isolation, sorrow and memory and I believe the last two head shots were really nice way of displaying that and in itself a piece of art. I felt that the dramatic lighting and gentle soft light created with the blinds running over my face was an amazing effect and recreated exactly what I was looking for. I don’t know if I would use these for my finals but definitely worked much better than I expected.

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Memory Glitches - Research

Today I sat through thinking of more glitch related instances through our daily normal lives and stumbled upon some interesting results. These unique feelings such as Deja Vu, Flashbulb Memories, Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and false memories.  In http://www.theguardian.com/ website covered most of these phenomenons and I found these crucial in helping my research and knowledge going into my final work. For my works I wanted to focus on DeJa Vu. With each movement and direction make are seen and felt to be unique. The phenomenon of DeJa Vu (”already seen”) has been explored since the dawn of time and is defined as a feeling of experiencing the fleeting sensation that life is on the repeat or that we are reliving a past experience. Scientifically DeJa Vu is a case that involves damage to, or abnormal functioning in brain regions associated with recall and familiarity and hence why it’s referred to as a memory glitch. 

Matrix (DeJa Vu) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KmNZNT5xw

This naturally led me to look into DeJa Vu.. and although no breakouts in research occurred, I did find some techniques and interesting artists that came up through a quick google search.  Nigel Cox - 

"Painting primarily on linen, I build up thin layers of oil paint and glazes, developing depth and detail. The resulting paintings are smooth to the touch and seem to glow with an inner light. My love of large open spaces and lack of clutter is obvious in my work but I am also fascinated by detail. These opposing elements are merged in my paintings in a style which I call Photorealistic Minimalism. My paintings provide the viewer with a glimpse beyond the clutter of everyday life, conjuring up notions of escape and peace, offering sanctuary from the frenetic world outside. The figures are alone but not lonely; searching but not anxious, anticipating yet calm. They have an inner peace and strength and are at one with their surroundings. The paintings reflect solitude, tranquility and confidence, giving every day scenes an unexpected and surreal feeling while keeping them solidly within the real world." 

“My love for large open spaces and lack of clutter”, “notions of escape, peace, offering sanctuary” , “solitude, tranquility and confidence”.. these quotes that Nigel Cox elaborated on are aspects that I envisioned my final work to be and one that tied directly with my past. One of his most famous works and one that made me look into him was  DeJa Vu - 2006 (GALLERY IV)

I found his work to be extremely powerful playing to his promise of empty space with the feeling of isolation and solitude. The direct mirror of the subject (man) gives the notion of memory and mystery which I loved and would like to replicate somehow with my final work piece. 

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Goodbye - Experiment (Fire)

After the success of removing context in the previous experiment I wanted to take it a step further by removing the photo entirely and observe the results. This meant... FIRE!

I began to run the photograph over the image and waited for it to catch on fire..During this process I felt immense guilt as I was removing the only photo that would have reminded me of that moment..but do I regret it? no. Because through (random destruction/irregularity without knowing the output) glitching the otherwise forgotten memory was relived and brought further up than it was before. Although there was not going to be another photo to remind myself of the memory, the memory was brought to surface and though I would forget in the future, this very act of this assignment and tumblr is a reminder of how special that was to me.

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been so mesmerised and in depth of thought whilst burning something but it did happen. I was seriously in deep thought and completely zoned out from everything in a means that I’ve never experienced before. I didn’t realise how long it was burning for until the alarms started going off and later found out that there’s now a hole in the bathtub (apparently it’s not made from china..). As I washed the ashes away it was as if I was saying goodbye but felt stupid doing it because it provided me an experience that the original photo never could have..I mean it was trapped and not touched for 7 years after the event

The results however was interesting.. out of all the things left to be burt, guess what was left over? yep..my face. As the image completely rotted away and fire began to self diminish, my face was the only thing to be left behind. I guess it was due to the wax acting as a protective layer but what happened to the others? they..disappeared leaving me. I didn’t even realise until it happened and was super excited to document this on tumblr. 

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Face Glitching - Experiment (Wax)

As initial experimentation I wanted to explore glitching in a physical sense. I found that with my previous works in assessment 1, the process of glitching (with software) had the ability to remove all forms of context and allowed the image/memory to be emphasised as unique to the individual. I found this extremely interesting so I’d thought to emphasise on glitching our most distinguishable feature, our face. 

The image below was taken from back when I was in year 6 graduation (Epping Public School) meeting Bennelong’s house representative at the time Maxine McKew. Being from a relatively small school, this event was both planned and anticipated for a long period of time and it was because of this buildup that made the memory special. 

In this procedure I wanted to see the effects of hot wax as inspiration from Encaustic Painting (painting with hot wax). For it to relate to my proposal I wanted to focus more on the destruction and removal of the subjects (the faces) and see what effects it had on me, my memories and past. Given that the image used was the only photo with Maxine McKew made the process of “glitching” more memorable and found myself both staring and reminiscing to the importance of that event and how it has changed me as a person. Thinking back, it was not only a graduation but separated my true friends from those who were putting on a face. 

On an interesting note, I found that this experiment worked to charm. After studying countless of childhood images, I found that with a quick glance I was able to distinguish both the event, time and people involved in the frame. To me, with the faces blurred I was still able to easily make out who the three people were but upon asking my girlfriend who these people were, she didn’t have a clue. So through this experiment alone I found that through direct and physical glitching of photos (memories) I was able to both relive and reconnect with the past and reflect on how that moment has directly effected my life now. 

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Photography Manipulation - Glitching

http://www.erikjohanssonphoto.com/ Erik Johansson is one of the most famous modern photographers due to his powerful use of manipulation and subject focus, balance and choices. His images always provide a sense of immersion into a story with his fiction feel. His a master of manipulation (a form of controlled glitching) and works his way around the image, creating a full experience moreso than just a photo. He doesn't capture moments, he captures ideas. He uses photography just a way to collect material to realise the ideas in his mind with a problem solving approach.

Drifting Away - 2013

You feel the image, you see what’s inside and relate be it from a creative side or on a personal level. This has inspired me to add levels of manipulation to my final works to increase emotion and connection with the audience. I seriously can’t wait to present and display my idea and hopefully everyone can see the minor links I have in my final with this research leading up to the final project. 

The Cover Up - 2013

Seriously though.. as a photographer what Erik has done is beyond beautiful and is what art is all about. I absolutely encourage you guys to see this for yourself because it’s truly what inspires me to become an artist. 

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Proposal

Before all of my current research (after assessment 1) I began to brainstorm ideas branch off the notion of glitching within our personal lives. Truthfully I didn’t want to dig too far in my past but it seems as if to provide a complete statement and experience that producing a work off my past and emotional past was the best way to both engage and create a complete work piece. This idea was not complete and the reason why it was never brought to class but the more thought and care put into the photos and memories selected will provide a personal and dear artwork.  In photography the “wow” factor is usually provided by the subject of each particular image and should always consist of a background, mid ground and foreground focus. I guess with my new direction I’ll be the focus. My own experiences, context and story. Presenting my past will be difficult and emotional during class and I’m hoping that it goes well.  With my documentation I could go through masses of reblogs, research and external influences but I’ve decided (as seen through the tone) to keep it personal so both my artwork, presentation and documentation has a voice. Like a real blog..this is going through my WHOLE process not just the research. (wtf..actually getting really emotional writing this) There will be unedited images presented on my tumblr page from now and going through my life experiences in replacement of hardcore research of the glitching topic because I feel as if my concept in hand is already rather complex and enough for me to continue with this journey. Thank you for reading..more to come.

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Glitching of memory - Research/Experimentation

Through the notion of straying away from the traditional views of “glitching” I started to plan out unique modes of glitching - the process of disruption and change which results to unpredictable results. In combination with my previous research of individuality, memories, life experience as glitches within our own lives I began to look through the power of photography as a means to capturing memories.  “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” - Ansel Adams

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” - Susan Sontag Photography has always been a strong aspect of my childhood being behind the lens at all times and now being the one behind the camera. It itself as a past time has provided me the experience to literally view every day objects in new light. To flip through photos is to relive past memories good and bad and allows us to both reflect, react and bring our past closer. I found that by flipping through these images, immense feelings and emotion began to pour out. Old family, friends, moments that were previously forgotten were brought out and under new focus. This made me begin to produce links between my previous statement with my new direction.

“We as humans are unable to direct our lives perfectly and it is why “the beauty of life is out of our control”. Unable to see into the future, it is these glitches (good or bad) within our lives that ultimately displays our inner beauty. “ - Statement Assessment 1  Like the output of a HEX (glitched) file, photographs are our closest documentation of the output of our lives. The life that’s constantly being glitched and manipulated without any pre-concieved notion of the future. This to me was hugely powerful as it allowed me to link my past memories, photographs and most importantly life to the process of glitching in the most wide but controlled mindset possible. I can’t wait to continue to produce work and research out of this.  

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Glitching Research

Through viewing many images, techniques as well as performing my own glitched photos in the previous assignment I found an interesting trait when asking others to view my pieces of individual works. I found with my own images, with my own experiences I got to see past the glitch and feel/relive back in the moment whilst external viewers all have difficulty either making out the original photo or fail to see the significance of the photos. I found that the process of glitching removes the obvious visual connections between experiences and visuals but allows the glitched photo to mean more, something more personal that only those with the photos can experience. In my future works I want to continue to explore this notion and connecting memories, experiences, glitching with individualism and creating a set of memories and distorted images as to remove context, in turn creating a complete experience as I go back in time to relive the memories and creating a personalised work.

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Above is a few of the photos used within my poster, I wanted to place them individually because in my eye they are all uniquely an artwork and plays a special part of my life. Overall this task has encouraged me to explore all depths of the term “glitch” and opened up the boundaries of my past knowledge. 

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FINAL PROJECT - Glitching

FINAL POSTER:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzBgl-7FoCLlVWdDaHV0YXJZMjQ/view?usp=sharing SAMPLE:

QUESTION:

“The word glitch refers to an unpredictable irregularity in a system—digital and analogue alike. Glitches cannot be avoided or prevented; glitch aesthetics explores the productive failure of systems. Explore the creative possibilities of glitch.” STATEMENT:

To answer the question directly, a glitch is simply a disruption/change within a system and it is due to these unpredictable results that enables the change to create interestingly beautiful results. The traditional notion of glitching has always been seen as a fault of equipment. After researching this idea first hand, I now see glitching as being a change that ultimately leads to unpredictable results both good and bad. This is where my concept lies, the notion that our personal lives are forever glitching. Leading to different directions, viewpoints, changes and explorations that changes us and makes us who we are as individuals. It is due to these unavoidable circumstances of failure and exploration that allows us to explore creative possibilities within our lives weather for positive or negative connotations.

As a human we walk, talk, love and feel but behind it all is our genetic code which gives us these abilities that makes us human. What would happen if we altered that genetic code? to glitch the code? It would directly alter what we do, how we are hard wired to think and ultimately changes what we are as human. 

This idea of glitching life is seen throughout my poster through the images of my child and teenage years being directly digitally manipulated. As I have changed as an individual, so have these aspects of my life. With this in mind I found that the very act of glitching these images (through Hex Editors/Photoshop) represents the changes/experiences/decisions and hardship we as humans go through without the certainty of beauty. However, it is these changes within our lives (glitches) that alter our perceptions, making everyone beautiful in our own sense. We as humans are unable to direct our lives perfectly and it is why “the beauty of life is out of our control”. Unable to see into the future, it is these glitches (good or bad) within our lives that ultimately displays our inner beauty. 

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Glitching - Experiment: Hex Editor

In my previous experiments I relied on web based systems to create the glitch effect, some done by complete random generation but others with sliders to control the output image. I decided to take the harder route and experience what it was like to create these glitched images on my own by using the traditional use of editors. These editors (HEX) aka hexadecimal editors edits the raw data behind the image most commonly .JPEG formats. “A hex editor (or binary file editor or byte editor) is a type of computer program that allows for manipulation of the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file. The name 'hex' comes from 'hexadecimal': a standard numerical format for representing binary data. A typical computer file occupies multiple areas on the platter(s) of a disk drive, whose contents are combined to form the file. Hex editors that are designed to parse and edit sector data from the physical segments of floppy or hard disks are sometimes called sector editors or disk editors.”

In my experiments I did just that, I dragged one of my facebook DP images into the hex editor and began to copy paste, write random things (”ORANGE STARBURSTS ARE MY FAV”) into the image file and see what results I achieved. I found that by repeating certain lines of data the image would split, other areas would change the hue/colour of the image whilst other areas caused complete blackouts..

The results turned out better than I have imagined, creating an ordinary display photo into an independent work of art. As I began to work with the file, I found out patterns within the files and where to touch/not touch in order to avoid faults/corruption. This made life much easier for later photos as I could semi guess what glitch would create such effects. This was extremely interesting to me and decided to use this technique for my final project. It was experimenting with this image where my main concept was formed. As I dove deeper into what I found glitching to be, I found that the true meaning for me was that a glitch was a form of change that expands on not knowing the unpredictable outcomes. This glitch/art of not knowing the result can be seen through our daily lives. Our decisions, experiences, directions and actions are glitches within our own lives, creating a later unexpected output that can either be beautiful or catastrophic. 

Below was an image (taken on my recent holiday) that was done in a COFA class day with people around me to see the procedure, they were amazed at all the randomness and artistic results that can come out from this process. 

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Glitching - Experiment (jkirchartz.com)

http://jkirchartz.com/Glitchy3bitdither/ is another glitching web based program that allows the user to enter an image and comes up with multiple generated images that are altered in many ways. These images produced gave me the opportunity to explore the depths of glitch art and the potential of detail and precision each technique provides. From these I would like to explore the next level of glitching which would be the traditional way of doing them manually using a HEX editor which manipulates the binary raw data of the image creating random and unpredictable results. col_str%���K� The following are the images. 

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Glitching - Experiment

In order to explore the art of glitching and what it means to glitch things, I have gone out and tried to find software/web based glitching services that creates the traditional glitching effect. This post explores http://snorpey.github.io/  This web based glitching tool was recommended to a friend of mine when I asked them what glitching meant to them (as explored in my previous posts). He told me that there were places where I could go that created this glitching effect and was simple to do.

I began to input my own photos that I wanted to glitch and test out the softwares, first image being a personal photograph of the street life on our recent trip to New Caledonia. Once inserted I began to notice a dynamic and artistic change to the image right away.  ORIGINAL: 

IMPORTED:

It became clear that this web based system was more powerful than I first thought it to be. The image became different in colour hue and I saw some glitching lines through the images as if the image was misaligned.  To furthur explore this program and it’s limitations I began to see the “amount”, “seed”, “iterations” and “quality” tabs and began to wonder what each tab corresponded to.  By changing the amount tab, I found that the image changed extremely drastically in both colour and number of glitched lines. This created a very mellow and separated image with the hard horizontal lines cutting the image into 5. I actually loved this result. 

By changing the seed of the image, the number of lines remained relatively the same, separating the image into 5 sections but changing the hue by quite a large difference displaying a more cool tone which juxtaposed with the prior image and made it extremely enlightening. 

I then moved on to changing the number of iterations which led to the most drastic result so far, creating more lines and altering the colour. I loved this image due to the separation of warm and cool colours distinctively but in a smooth and gradual rainbow like change. This made me wonder and think about how beautiful this has made the image compared to the original and in my eye I find this to be so much more unique and special. This has opened my eyes to the power and potential of glitch art. 

By cranking and messing with the quality the image began to take place in more of a pixel based glitched format. This is often associated with Computer Science (my university course) and I found this to be extremely familiar and one of the reasons why I wanted to explore glitching as a concept. It reminded me of the old nintendo gameboys where this would occur when the cartridge had dust or something happened to the chip. This had it’s on positive taste and impact and makes the user wonder what was the original image behind the glitch.  

Overall it is fair to say that snorpey.github.io has allowed me to see the potential and levels of glitch art on a single jpeg image and how much this change has positive views and artistic connotations. I can’t simply wait to explore other means of glitching and explore this area furthur and incorporate all my knowledge from Computer Science and experimentation with glitching. Overall I found this experiment truly helpful. 

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This exercise stemmed from my knowledge from computer science in which we are always told to ask our peers to fully understand the limitations of our questions and concepts. This idea was also extrapolated during COFA1001 where I conducted experiments on people to gain a best understanding. I find that in doing this, I am able to broaden what my perceptions are, find patterns and differences within each concept which ultimately increases my knowledge overall.   My first initial thought of glitching was simply basic, thinking of glitching as only a negative feature in a system. My first thoughts all pointed to games and how the glitches impact the smoothness of the experience and how it’s a hindrance. After some research I found that there were many aspects of glitching in both the social and virtual world in both positive and negative aspects. From my sample of individuals we can see a wide range of responses, some talking about the basic notion I was initially referring to all the way through to elaborate and indepth conceptual findings. Like me, some thought that glitching was purely a negative said to be a “virus” in a system. The virtual/computing definition of glitching was seen many times as these were “bad” issues often requiring “a reboot or restart”. Others extended on this idea and reffering glitching to be initially bad but often with a good ending. Like computing, the act of glitching acts as a debugging in which the user is able to find and locate all issues with the system. This often requires special labour hackers to deliberately hack systems and find faults so they can later be fixed. The most interesting responses came from those who found beauty with fault. How glitching can lead to amazing and beautiful results both artistically and discovery. “There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents”.