Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Art from Technological Glitches

When we heard the term technological glitch, the very first thing that comes to our mind is minor unexpected malfunction, mishap, or technical problem or a digital corruption. And in one way or another, we have already encountered this glitch whether in our mobile phones, radios, ATM’s, and especially our personal computer. As a result, a technological glitch is considered a nuisance for it hinders an individual to perform properly his tasks. But these glitches are not bad at all and believe it or not, there’s an art hiding among these glitches.

Glitch art or some may call it the aesthetics of digital corruption, is residing an inner beauty of its own. If you have no idea of what a technology glitch looks like, try to see some abstract painting hanging on the walls of some famous museums in your country. Or the much closer comparison is the 3D “magic eye” images you see on paper, wherein when you look closer to the images, you can see another image appearing from it. Although each glitch art does not exactly promise the same result, the images are similar.

Michael Shanks’ glitch art is an example of these. You can see in his site that the computer can create odd looking glitches which appears to be an eye sore or and headache because of the effect it can create to your system, can be an art of its own. He has showed that a glitch can create and convert abstract images into an eye catching art and permanently change the views of computer glitches.

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