I was listening to the radio on the way home from work and Phil Stearns was discussing Glitch Art with the Host of the show (Nora Young, on CBC’s Spark). I’d never heard of the art-form before, so I did a little digging when I got home.
Phillip Stearns is an artist who works “with electronics and electronic media.” Mr. Stearns, and other glitch artists, find a fascination with those moments when a screen goes black, blue, or green, or when images pixelate and freeze. These artist insist that there is beauty in these glitches, and they not only capture the images for posterity, but work to create ‘defective’ digital images.
I visited a site where anyone can create their own glitch art; a do-it-yourself image glitch experiment. It’s fun, but I found it somewhat frustrating: I couldn’t manipulate the image quite like I wanted, but maybe that is a function of the random element of the art-form. I played around for quite a while until I ‘created’ my finished work.
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