I chose this article to read about because it was one of the most interesting topics that we covered this semester. I also agree with the article when it says, "In the age of technology, using coding to morph an image into an aesthetically pleasing error-ridden form of itself is one of the coolest types of digital art we’ve seen." and think that this style of art combines both pieces in my major, Creative Technology and Design, to create a new and innovative art style! When they talk about the the different versions of glitch art, it reminds me of when we were first going over this and Corrina had shown us a few videos of digital gltich performance. This article also mentions "net.art" and credits is as one of the founding digital glitch art spaces, just like we had learned in lecture. The art style originated in 1970 and became more popular with video-jockies and DJs in the 1990's. They also mentioned, "databending," which is just another word for the act of making a digitally glitched image. Before learning what exactly makes a piece glitch art, I didn't realize that I had actually already seen a lot of glitch art performances. One of the most common version of this that I've seen are the visuals that are usually accompanied by music in concerts. Many artists have a set of videos and images they play alongside their music that is actually commonly distorted and flashy, just like the article mentiones.
The article also features a website in which you can put a image in and it will help you glitch and distort it. The sliders allow you to add different glitch bars that contribute to the final look of the image. You can create more or less, as well as different colors and quality of glitch. The most interesting thing about this for me is the fact that someone coded this and uploaded it onto GitHub for others to try. For me, its the use of technology in art that I love the most! It is very cool that we also talked about some of these popular and important artists in the digital glitch sphere, the one I remember the most being Nick Briz. My favorite artists who work with glitch art are probably Nick Briz and Sabato Visconti, which was one of the only artists who I haven't seen anything from yet! His entire section on his page about Video game ROM corruption art is probably the coolest version of glitch art I have seen yet. I wanted to emulate a video game-esque feeling when I did my glitch art project earlier in the semester. The mixture of old style and even some newer style video games mixed with the glitch style emulates the perfect feeling of "old video game crashed!" Overall, small interesting article that helped to remind me about the artists and ways that you could glitch digital art!
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