Haley's Main Page

Reading Response 1: Garden of Forking Paths (Jorgé Luis Borges)

The main connection I’m noticing here is the idea of the labyrinths he’s describing, how they keep stretching on and on, and also the mention of illusionary images etc.
Relates to the branching and merging we’re doing for our first assignment.
Kind of reminds me of the multiverse theory or whatever it’s called, where like every possible outcome has it’s own reality but the one you choose is what you experience kind of thing
Also maybe I’m wrong again but he said the future already exists which kind of reminded me of determinism in a way (the idea that fate or the future is pre-determined and everything just leads up to those outcomes)
Reminds me of code though again because of branches and merging and that idea of a literal labyrinth of possibilities (in terms of your final outcome with your code), and how some ideas may converge with each other etc
But I guess the difference here is you can quite literally go back into your history and alter things whereas obviously in the analogy (kinda) within the story, that isn’t really accounted for. Like whatever choice you make within the garden is the choice you’re stuck with I guess

Reading Response 2: Glitch Studies Manifesto (Rosa Menkman, 2011)

“I feel stuck in the membranes of knowledge, governed by social conventions and acceptances. As an artist I strive to reposition these membranes; I do not feel locked into one medium or between contradictions like real vs. virtual or digital vs. analog. I surf the waves of technology, the art of artifacts.”
I like the idea of working outside of what is “accepted” or deemed better, especially in regard to art and technological art (especially now with the way that algorithms and trends work, at least in a social media context)
“Get away from the established action scripts and join the avant-garde of the unknown. Become a nomad of noise artifacts!”
I think this also relates to our upcoming assignment since we get to explore fun/unconventional ways of portraying images, even if it’s for the sake of practicing
Reminds me of that thing about how art is meant to make people uncomfortable or something (comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable LOL?) at least when it talks about “noise” and aggression, and how glitch art etc can be seen as sort of crazy or literally noisy in a way
Reminds me of found art in a way (not to disregard the intentionality behind it), because I’d assume that glitches or other technological disruptions are usually regarded as inconveniences etc, whereas someone else could look at it and be like “hey that’s really cool”

Reading Response 3

Reading Response 4

Reading Response 5