The corrosive moment : a look at the apocalyptic glitch
Date
2012
Authors
Blicharz, Marta
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Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of New Media, c2012
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the contextualization of my artistic practice, which explores digital
glitch as a disruptive force and an aesthetic treatment in the contemporary technological
world. While the body of work draws on the methodology of glitch art, this paper attempts
to relate the idea of glitch to a wider range of philosophical and artistic frameworks
stemming from Lettrism, Situationist International, Punk, and Nihilism. The aim of this
investigation of a digital disturbance through its categorization into natural, stimulated and
assimilated glitch, is to facilitate an understanding of the glitch event as both something
threatening and attractive, while it transitions from a spontaneous to a controlled process in
a photoreal image. The passing of the destructive glitch from life to art is placed against the
backdrop of the apocalypse, which one may imagine as a literal and metaphorical disaster in
the physical world and value systems of western society.
Description
vii, 113 leaves ; col. ill. ; 29 cm
Keywords
New media art , Digital media -- Social aspects , Digital media and culture , Dissertations, Academic