I am working on a Glitch Project for my New Media Art class.
Brief History of Glitch Art: Glitch art, like Pop art, is an amorphous term - a canopy who's tenants slip under and out of. These terms can be expanded to include much more than might immediately come to mind. This is because at their core they're simply a loose link to a key concept: the interest in the "mistake", the interest in "popular culture". Pop's link to culture is an important one here; it critically responds to culture primarily by appropriating it. Glitch art often has similar layers of appropriation at play. The first is the same as Pop art: the content found in many glitch works are commonly borrowed from popular culture. The second layer is the appropriation of the glitch itself. Though an artist can create/instigate glitches (s)he will often intentionally/ideologically not do this. Instead choosing to search for them by exploring the digital landscape and catching them (screen grabbing, recording, etc.) when they occur. In this way glitch art is like Pop art.
Programs used:
Final Cut Pro X
FFMPEG
AVIDEMUX
Concept: A series of memes, videos that have become viral or popular and start incorporating themselves within society or everyday speech, and distorting the popularity through errors to heavily focus or draw the viewer in more to the individuality of each video and of the glitches themselves as the glitches become more and more frequent and unrecognizable as original videos.
Society sometimes forgets that memes are not always a cluster of overpowering thoughts, but individually beautiful in their own way. And by viewing this, hopefully, the viewer will realize that this is basically the brain being overrun by fragments of memories, forgotten and distorted as if unable to remember the video in full because of the individual moments within the video that spoke louder to them than others.
This video is not finished! I still have more to do with it but enjoy what I have so far. :3 I like watching the progress heighten with each add-on.
Brief History of Glitch Art: Glitch art, like Pop art, is an amorphous term - a canopy who's tenants slip under and out of. These terms can be expanded to include much more than might immediately come to mind. This is because at their core they're simply a loose link to a key concept: the interest in the "mistake", the interest in "popular culture". Pop's link to culture is an important one here; it critically responds to culture primarily by appropriating it. Glitch art often has similar layers of appropriation at play. The first is the same as Pop art: the content found in many glitch works are commonly borrowed from popular culture. The second layer is the appropriation of the glitch itself. Though an artist can create/instigate glitches (s)he will often intentionally/ideologically not do this. Instead choosing to search for them by exploring the digital landscape and catching them (screen grabbing, recording, etc.) when they occur. In this way glitch art is like Pop art.
Programs used:
Final Cut Pro X
FFMPEG
AVIDEMUX
Concept: A series of memes, videos that have become viral or popular and start incorporating themselves within society or everyday speech, and distorting the popularity through errors to heavily focus or draw the viewer in more to the individuality of each video and of the glitches themselves as the glitches become more and more frequent and unrecognizable as original videos.
Society sometimes forgets that memes are not always a cluster of overpowering thoughts, but individually beautiful in their own way. And by viewing this, hopefully, the viewer will realize that this is basically the brain being overrun by fragments of memories, forgotten and distorted as if unable to remember the video in full because of the individual moments within the video that spoke louder to them than others.
This video is not finished! I still have more to do with it but enjoy what I have so far. :3 I like watching the progress heighten with each add-on.
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