COFA1002 Assessment 2 Major Project - Concept Statement & Bibliography
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What is glitch? Unpredictable failure, accident, error, 404 Not Found, problem… it is commonly found in digital medium, from videos to online games. Unusual displays of blurry, analogue, pixels, lines and etc. are meant to express the failure in the computing programing. It cannot be predicted, there is no time indication or any symptoms until it eventually happens. It is an annoying, distracting, time consumed, unsuccessful and impossible event.
Glitch can be happened at any forms of digital medium, waiting for too long to load a game, screen frozen, moving of a stopped display, failure to display data or results, game elements failure are commonly found in real life. But there could be more, glitch is likely a remix culture, mixing different format and pattern and content to create the failure. In this assessment, glitch is presented with regarding to what we observed during the event. It is a way of seeing, how it can be transformed as a creative approach.
Extending from the previous assessment, although glitch is found as failure within a system, from the observation, glitch is also found as a remix, fusion or cross over, chaos, clashes or crashes, and randomness or chances, which can be extended to express in contemporary art and design.
In a system, it is composed of millions or unlimited series of coding, the system itself is generated in a computing hardware. Computing devices are invented by the educated and knowledgably experienced in scripting the program. However, there is nothing to be perfect, in real time examples, students could experience a mistake and fail to complete a task. In digital world, the inexpert will come out with error indications.
In terms of remix, the animation has combined different objects, avatar like human figures, real life objects, food, computing devices and even more, glitch can remix everything discarding the forms, matter, weight and value.
In terms of fusion or cross over, fusion meant to be combination of cells in scientific perspective .In the animation, although it is played at an intensive speed, imagining to look into details, think and analysis those moving objects, two or more objects are randomly overlapped, the transparency created on different layers of video, illusions are seen and observed like a false judgement.
In terms of clash or crashes, although there is no indication of performing such act, from the demonstration of moving images at different direction, images are travelling everywhere accidentally, keep intersecting against each other, which has created another illusion.
In terms of randomness and chances, there is always a contingent forms of expression, the animation is generated with formulas to command. Formulas can be calculated and determine the fate of the overall result. The selection and creation of objects appeared in the animation could also be generated randomly. For example, food and real time objects may not have any connection to the digital content. As long it is just a capture, it becomes part of it.
In the final work, the animation expresses the above concepts, using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to generate an interactive display. Unfortunately, because of the inexperienced in coding, it cannot be finalized as a video game; creatively, it is a failure attempt. Instead, it is transformed to stimulate the gaming technology. Feeling like the objects are fully controlled from the keyboard and mouse, this is the first glitch.
The second glitch is failed to be merged all layers to be presented without transparency, it is eventually created to duplicate them to create illusion as a kind of characteristic in glitch art.
The third glitch is presenting the original source of my animation, since it is composed of screen recording which records the SVG animation through a web browser.
The final glitch is presenting an accidental failure from the coding, which is developed when typing series of formulas, mistyping some commands or having an extra letter which corrupts the part of the animation.
Glitch can be found at any forms of medium, but it is simple and clear to present digitally.
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