Glitch Essay - Deziree Jernigan (9/17)
Prior to this class I had no experience with glitch art. I thought a glitch on an image happened by accident and it would ruin the picture to no saving. I never knew glitch art was an intentional art form. While watching Nick Briz video I learned that there is an entire communicate when it comes to glitch art. I also learned how stuff goes into glitch art and how you're often pushed to think outside the box and break some rules. Someone Briz brought up that made me want to look into his work is Benjamin Gaulon. From looking at his Kindle glitch art piece. His art seems more on the simpler side while still incorporating Glitch. I will say when I first saw glitch art I wasn’t the biggest fan of it. But getting to hear the impact it has on people I learned to have a bigger appreciation for it.
It's true, it's important to emphasize the practice of glitch as a behavior—a way of engaging with our digital tools—more so than as a visual style. As Briz specifies, one could easily make an image LOOK glitched by mimicking the aesthetics through filters and adjustments, but the importance of glitch is not in the look, but in the action. It's about testing the boundaries of these digital tools and pushing their systems to generate something unexpected. It's about not taking these digital platforms and products at face value, but rather challenging them. Glitch can be empowering, and help us to become more digital literate.
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