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Digitized Classics – Printed Imperfections

Digitized Classics – Printed Imperfections

“To change the material artifact is to transform the context and circumstances for interacting with the words, which inevitably changes the meanings of the words as well” (Hayles 23). With this sentence N. Katherine Hayles summarizes the importance of considering...
By Nora Wohlfeil on 05/11/14 1
GLITCH/NO_GLITCH

GLITCH/NO_GLITCH

The following report covers two sessions on the theme ‘Error’ for the MA New Media course ‘critical media art’. The first session was a presentation by Rosa Menkman, showing a lively mix of portfolio work and critical theory on...
By Martijn Dorresteijn on 02/26/12 Comments Off on GLITCH/NO_GLITCH
ERROR: The Art of the G/itch

ERROR: The Art of the G/itch

With the advent of new technologies come new possibilities and applications that hitherto had been unthinkable. New technologies can also affect existing forms of production and presentation. These changes can lead to the emergence of new styles and ideologies,...
By Jidi Guo on 02/20/11 Comments Off on ERROR: The Art of the G/itch

Glitch Studies Manifesto

A glitch is an unintended break of (one of) the many flows within a technological system. It is a wonderful and frightening interruption that shifts a technology away from its ordinary form and discourse. For a moment I am...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/03/10 2

Compress Process

The whole video is created with one and the same skype video recording; its basically a selfportrait of me jumping around. Creating this video made me think about a couple of things. First of all, the research I am...
By Rosa Menkman on 03/12/09 2

From compression artifact to filter

An archeology of a compression filter. A couple of months ago I was approached by a company that asked me for my knowledge on glitch and compression artifacts. They were especially interested in recreating bleeding pixels. I recognized their...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/19/09 2

Software Takes Command

6 days ago Lev Manovich released his softbook Software Takes Command. He described his book as a software, as it will have its patches in the same way as a new installments requires its bug (big?) -fixes: One of...
By Rosa Menkman on 11/27/08 4

// Failing harddrive // Cimatics festival, Brussels, 2008 //

I made this video with the help of a collection of failing hard drive sounds, while the video is a combination of failed pdf screengrap videos (by me). It is the first time I made a (kind of) music...
By Rosa Menkman on 11/17/08 3

Multiplication can produce powerful glitches

At Haip festival in Ljubljana I met the Piratbyrån, the bureau of piracy which is (one of the) the driving forces behind the Piratebay torrent site. The Pirate bureau came to Ljubljana in the S23X, a Swedish modified city...
By Rosa Menkman on 11/11/08 1

In the midst of the serene world of ɥɔʇılƃ

HT Gold will be playable at HAIP Festival in Ljubljana in November (on the commodore, of course). Radio Dada will also be shown and I will give a glitch performance there. Be aware that the framerate of a Commodore...
By Rosa Menkman on 10/16/08 1

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< title > < /title > < /head > < body > As described in the last post, glitch artists regularly use glitch-techniques to make the spectator aware of the construction of flow. This intervention can be accomplished by...
By Rosa Menkman on 08/29/08 Comments Off on < head >

The Nexus between Reason and Unr3as0n[4ble]

Since the beginning of the digital era, the quest of the Renaissance seems to have re-entered the artist’s consciousness, with the aim of presenting the world in the highest level of reality. The holy grail of this search is...
By Rosa Menkman on 08/13/08 Comments Off on The Nexus between Reason and Unr3as0n[4ble]

Non-figurative versus disfiguration

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By Rosa Menkman on 08/07/08 1

(`’•.¸(` ‘•. ¸ * ¸.•’´)¸.•’´)

«´`¸* Introduction to glitch *¸´`» (¸. •’´(¸.•’´ * `’•.¸)`’•.¸ ) In 1961, in the First Preface to Histoire de la folie, Foucault writes that the modern man and the madman no longer communicate. There is no longer a common...
By Rosa Menkman on 07/06/08 1

In-between Manifesto

By Lievnath Faber, Tim van der Heijden and Rosa Menkman. IN-BETWEEN MANIFESTO We are the Interdividuals We are the people that celebrate the in-between. Our manifesto is meant for everyone. One who is ‘in-between’ is neither an isolated individual...
By Rosa Menkman on 05/30/08 5

Eastern Fire Swim

Last Eastern me and Goto80 made a new ‘music’video. The sound is produced by the new tracker software for the c64 (Defmon) that Goto80 uses, unfortunately glitched . look at Youtube! Goto80 described it as “I hugged bugs to...
By Rosa Menkman on 05/12/08 Comments Off on Eastern Fire Swim

Radio Dada

The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image that feedback created . Then I glitched...
By Rosa Menkman on 04/20/08 4

Strong girls glitch too

While traveling through networks she discovered she existed. Then one day somebody committed burglary into her brain. Her shell was cracked and she became one of those people with hacked souls. She thought she had seen it all, but...
By Rosa Menkman on 12/02/07 Comments Off on Strong girls glitch too

Der Lauf der Remediation

Peter Fischli and David Weiss made a kinetic artwork in 1987, called Der Lauf der Dinge. My mother was very sensitive and would show this to me and my brother instead of Bambi. I still have...
By Rosa Menkman on 06/27/07 Comments Off on Der Lauf der Remediation