The Art of Glitch?
What is a Glitch?
A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects its self an, and is therefore diffucult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronic industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations and nature. The term derives from the German glitschig meaning 'slippery', possibly entering English through the Yiddish term glitsh.
What is Glitch Art?
Glitch Art is the aestheticization of digital or analog erros, such as artificats and other "bugs", but either corrupting digital code/data or by physically manipulating electronic devices (for example by circuit bending).
Can Glitches be seen as a good thing?
EARLY WORK EXAMPLES
EARLY WORK EXAMPLES
Here I have chosen to glitch and recreate images of my niece. I decided to use these particular images as they show a different angles of her and my work is looking into faded memories and faces. As she is young and still growing I decided to use her for an early example and experimentation. When she is older she will not really remember these images been taken of her, so the glitches represent memories being some what forgotten over the years. I think these images are very effective and I will be experimenting further with these.
Here is another example of a glitch image taken of my niece.
Artists
MELANIE WILLHIDE
I find Melanies work very interesting because her images appear quite abstract in a sense and they also somewhat capture a decisive moment. I like the use of symmetry in the first piece in and the highlighted colours in contrast the the black and white background. Her use of colour and glitching effect sets her pieces apart from other artists.
DAVID HOCKNEY
David Hockney's works may be my favourite work of the artists i researched because I find his technique so innovative, because of how he's used multiple images of his characters from different views and placed them in a very unique composition which I feel rein-acts their movements and somewhat tells a story of motion in a still image.
MICHAEL BETANCOURT
I enjoyed Michaels videos because of how glitched they were it was a challenge to interpret what the videos may be about though I enjoyed watching them. though at times the videos got boring when some scenes lasted longer than expected, i feel that the best way to keep a viewers attention is to keep the videos fast paced this challenges their minds more and keeps them curious.
FERRUCIO LAVIANI
I don't particularly find Laviani's work to be too exciting. The images in the pictures don't look extremely interesting, I assume they may be important historic artefacts of some sort but without any information on them it would be difficult to tell.
ALDO TOLINO
I found Aldo Tolinos work to be the most fascinating and curious of the artists i researched. at first glance at a few of his pieces I couldn't grasp and understanding of how he may have created them. though after careful study I found a way to create my own pieces in a similar style.
