“What actually happens when a glitch occurs is unknown, I stare at the glitch as a void of knowledge; a strange dimension where the laws of technology are suddenly very different from what I expected and know. Here is the purgatory; an intermediate state between the death of the old technology and a judgement for a possible continuation into a new form, a new understanding, a landscape, a videoscape..”
This isn’t a very serious relation but more so funny to me, but I felt like this combination of assets (the repetition in the background, and the layer mask in the foreground) sort of encapsulates that idea of purgatory (lol). This one image is confined within this unconventional shape (the ripped layer mask) as the chaos of the repetition (“continuation of a new form”) follows behind it.
“Whenever I use a ‘normal’ transparent technology, I only see one aspect of the actual machine. I have learned to ignore the interface and all structural components, to be able to understand a message or use a technology as fast as possible. The glitches I trigger turn the technology back into the obfuscated box that it already was. They shroud its inner workings and the source of the output as a sublime black veil. I perceive glitches without knowing where they originate from.”
These images are in their own dark void of a space (“as a sublime black veil”), and I feel like utilizing the blur mechanic alongside other distorting functions such as the stretch and hue shift also relates to the last sentence of this quote about not knowing where the images (glitches) originate from.
“Get away from the established action scripts and join the avant-garde of the unknown. Become a nomad of noise artifacts!”
I used layer modes to sort of blend the pepper into the noise background (noise artifacts), I wanted to connect it to the idea of the “established scripts” but in this case its more so the fact that a lot of the other images are “right side up” (so these ones are tilted)
“I am a voyager of videoscapes: I create conceptually synesthetic artworks, that use both visual and aural glitch (or other noise) artifacts at the same time. These artifacts shroud the black box, as a nebula of technology and its inner workings.”
This image is in a black void, and also I wanted to alter the colour with the filter function (relating to that idea of nebulas, although I feel like it gives the vibe of an old tv) and although this isn’t a video obviously, I thought the animation property could connect to that idea of a videoscape
“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.”
This one was the most ambitious I’d say (especially since I had to incorporate javascript), but I felt like it fit the idea of breaking away from established social conventions—all of the other images are sort of confined within their sections, whereas this one isn’t in any particular section as it shows up and moves randomly on the screen. At the same time, it is also related to the idea of not being locked into one “medium” (one section?) since when it appears on screen it also covers the other established images. I think the fact that it incorporates java could also correlate to the idea of multiple mediums as well (multiple coding languages).