net.2.2
These works were made from an image of a tattered net that I took via digital capture at the Boston waterfront near Government Center. It was glitched in a text editor with specific interventions in the code made to achieve desired visual effects.
Most glitch artists recognize the glitch as something broken and beautiful within our machine creations which rises to the surface, unless by intention, generally at a time when it is unanticipated and undesired. It is clear to me that the glitch speaks to our humanity, and its reflection within our creations. It recognizes a human quality - something generally regarded as untouchable by machines. It is an error, a sign that something has gone wrong, perhaps a reflection of our own human primal urges - our gut instincts and our unconscious frustrations.
Through methodological and phenomenological approaches alike, I explore a number of themes to which glitch can speak including our limitations of understanding, which we attempt to remedy by continually devising cleverer methods of compression and consolidation of data, the challenge of gender identity, and our means of communication, trade, and expression of ownership. I use a method of "incorrect editing" of files, and alter them to my own aesthetic preferences in a celebratory act which seeks ultimately to use glitch to find a medium between the information experience and the human experience, and a more honest understanding of our machine interactions in recognition of what we put into our technology.
