Glitch Art is the art of surprise, a gift delivered to us from the ways in which our technological systems misbehave.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 29, 2022
DADA, Noise Musics, the Situationist International, Musique concrèt, and Punk are a few preglitch ancestors we inherit Glitch Art from.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 29, 2022
new technologies beget new glitches. old technologies have still-yet-to-be-determined ways of glitching. operating systems change. new/old systems behave badly/differently, in ways which become available for glitching && Glitch Art.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 29, 2022
Glitch artists capture and perform glitch, glitch affects, and aesthetics.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 29, 2022
Glitch Art becomes popular in our Glitch Era. we regularly experience breakage. signal transmissions and technosocial promises break or are broken to begin with. in these technosocial times, glitch aesthetics become available materials.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 29, 2022
Postglitch is the experience of Glitch Aesthetic everywhere. a few of my fav most recent exs incl: https://t.co/T6oiBUhBw1 && https://t.co/YVxtQguHyK
— jonCates (@joncates) March 29, 2022
Glitches && games go together since forever.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
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Glitch Art draws from and contributes to Game Cultures. Art Games are a category of games intended to be Art. Glitch Art && Art Games often crossover with one another, as contemporary forms of Art.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
Glitch Art && Art Games often feature beautiful errors which express limits and possibilities simultaneously, either by design or through the unintended consequences of computers (hardware/software/artware).
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
Glitch Art && Art Games often highlight the fact that games are software: digital, coded, rule-based experiences, as subject to glitching as are all computational media/devices.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
when we play games we encounter unintentional glitches. these give us glitch affects, feelings of glitching; from breakdowns to breaking/bending the rules, from cheats to unrendered areas and offmap abysses; exciting and frustrating gameplay.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
1978: Jamie Faye Fenton intentionally glitches her own game software on the Bally BASIC Arcade / Astrocade (which she also developed the OS for), creating Digital TV Dinner w/ Raul Zaritsky and Dick Ainsworth. Digital TV Dinner is now known as one of / the first Glitch Art works.
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
1999: a Wild MISSINGNO. appeared! pic.twitter.com/9BzL0yCp4O
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
1999 - 2002: JODI / https://t.co/rY2C1rEoot (Joan Heemskerk && Dirk Paesmans) @_joid create their Untitled Game series, famously modifying Quake by @idSoftware https://t.co/glMyT1NG1S pic.twitter.com/MSnqW4Ex9r
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
2000: Myfanwy Ashmore @zebtronica creates Mario Battle No. 1, removing "all the architecture, prizes, enemies, performance enhancing drugs, obstacles so that all you can do is go for a walk." pic.twitter.com/Ku7BtJSa6r
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
2005: Rosa Menkman @_menkman inspired by JODI / https://t.co/rY2C1rEoot (Joan Heemskerk && Dirk Paesmans) exhibition "World Wide Wrong" at Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam; specifically JODI's Untitled Game (1996–2001)
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022
2008: Glitch Artist @sabatobox inspired while watching UEFA Euro 2008 Final live transmission glitching during thunderstorm
— jonCates (@joncates) March 29, 2022
2009: (in the context of the nationstate now known as USA) TV broadcast officially switches from analog to digital, introducing digital glitches into any/all TV broadcasts
— jonCates (@joncates) March 29, 2022
2010: Kim Asendorf @kimasendorf introduces Pixel Sorting with ASDF Pixel Sort and the Mountain Tour series pic.twitter.com/BSueHhNliy
— jonCates (@joncates) March 30, 2022