Jan Willem Deiman

Jan Willem Deiman focuses on processes that explore the relationship between coincidence and design in modern architecture and technology. In his video installations and performances (based on self-written systems), geometric patterns arise that constantly renew themselves and thus disturb the previously made designs. Deiman aims to observe objectively what happens while relinquishing the control of such a system. In drawings of modern decay, he analyses the distortion of architectural constructions as well as the design on which they were initially based. Through constantly developing patterns, Jan Willem Deiman's drawings, models, and videos question the control we have over mechanical and technological production and expose the amount of external influence involved. See more;

Simone Giordano

The oil paintings by Simone Giordano are highly inspired by the digital field and electronic devices. Simone works focused on this digital aesthetic recreating some ones from the digital interfaces such as the transparent background and the selection tool both from Photoshop, texts zoom in, pixelate images and even his painting present some great glitches and errors.

"Ideas, images that evolve and out from my laptop, grainy, fragmented, transformed in a graphic editing program and then finally transferred to canvas; belong to my memory, found them recognized in that extension of our own consciousness, but which 'collective well' that is 'the network, objects that acquire a new value in my representations, the one of medium between us and our deeper self, the root on which to build a just ethical, technological develop consciousness on which our the future. '' - Simone Giordano. See more;

Artsy Girls Make Me Sweat

Noisy visuals and sounds usually go linked. But I also like the contrast when glitchy aesthetics are accompanied of relaxed sound and music, like in this case, in the new work of Josh Studham called Artsy Girls Make Me Sweat. Music created by Noveller, Sarah Lipstate. See more;

Daniel Temkin

Daniel Temkin makes still and interactive pieces stemming from different forms of miscommunication, often built as uneasy collaborations with the computer. I'm featuring two of his projects which are related with glitches and errors produced by the use of basic softwares such as Photoshop. The first one is called Glitchometry, Daniel describes; each image begins as one or a few black squares or circles. They are sonified -- imported into an audio editor. Sound effects are added to individual color channels, as if they were sound, transforming the image. Because the tool is used in an unconventional way, there is no immediate way to monitor the effect. The image manipulator has a sense of what each effect does, but no precise control over the result. It is a wrestling with the computer, the results of which are these images. See more;

Maschinezeit (re-edit) by Aaron Chan

Maschinezeit (re-edit) is a glitchy physical environment created by Aaron Chan. For this project Aaron was approached by choreographer/publisher Jeanne-Salomé Rochat about editing some footage she had. Aaron says for Dazed & Confused "Jeanne-Salomé gave me a loose guideline of wanting bodies to virtually multiply in space, and to connect that with the clothing and the exhibition/museum space somehow... For the parts where it gets really weird on screen it was animated frame by frame, so this film took longer to make than anything else I've worked on in my short career." See more;

Colorful Colorado by Phil Morton

Colorful Colorado by Phil Morton, 1976_
Phil Morton (1945 - 2003) was an influential video artist and activist who founded the Video Area in 1970 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he taught from 1969 - 1981/1982. See more;

Static/Continuization Loop by Wim Janssen

"Static/Continuization Loop are two works by Wim Janssen about the phenomenon of television static. The same recognizable and commonly known image of television static is being generated through two completely different techniques. Not the image itself, but the way it is reconstructed and materialised, is the most important part of the Statics-series.

Television static is not just an abstract image, but also a figurative one. It is in fact an artifact of technology, a physical phenomenon and unwanted by-product. It is recognizable as what it is, static, but also has a certain iconic meaning. Wim Janssen tries to imitate and materialize static by means of an apparently slow and inefficient process." See more;

Yousuke Fuyama

"Yousuke Fuyama was born in Nagano, Japan, 1983. He is an artist, composer, programmer, visual and graphic designer, and VJ. He has been studying musical research and sound art and completed Master’s Degree in Media Science at Tokyo University of Technology Graduate School of Bionics, Computer and Media Sciences. His main focus on the expressions through data interconversion using various interfaces and programmes. He also works as a sound designer / programmer in a production company in Tokyo and designs interactive systems, develops devices and manages visual directions." See more;

catwithstring.info by Alejandro Crawford

catwithstring.info is a piece created by poet and video artist Alejandro Crawford. I really like the color palette and the glitchy aesthetics he got using hacked kinect + computer + max/msp/jitter, from a cat playing with string. See more;

Idrioema

Idrioema is a multimedia project by Luigi Scotti & Teresa Águas based in Portugal.

"It has the objective to explore the sound giving to the sensorial organs not only a passive absorption but a true organic conscience of what the sound provokes interacting with themselves. It is the augmentation of all our senses don' t perceive; to create a physical experience of the intellect..." See more;

Investigation #1 Television

Investigation #1 Television, project by Midnight Toastie_
"This installation of three 'x-rayed' television sets has been created to communicate our findings and to further reveal what extraordinary realms exist beyond our 'normal' view of the television.

The television set is often considered a banal piece of furniture. However, disregarding it as such ignores the intrinsic beauties of this technology. Following our mandate to explore the everyday and reveal unseen fantastical dimensions, "Investigation #1 - Television" aims to call attention to this machine that we look at daily, but which we never really regard by itself." See more;

Plaques & Tangles by Jeff Huntington

"Porter Contemporary, NY, is pleased to announce Plaques & Tangles, the new paintings by Jeff Huntington, who explores the mysteries of perception and memory as well as the flexibility and fragility of the human mind. The title of the exhibition refers to the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that are believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, a disease with which Huntington is quite familiar. While watching his father struggle with Alzheimer’s, the artist began to experiment with perspective. Using his father, nieces and nephews as subjects, Huntington developed a new portrait style that illustrates not only fragmented and confused thinking processes, but also his own shifting — and often challenging — feelings about his father’s illness." See more;

GLI.TC/H20111 needs you!

GLI.TC/H was a simple idea that was hatched upon the notion of folks gathering together and engaging/chatting/debating the issues/theories/concerns of failure, systems, art, && glitches.

The last year GLI.TC/H 2010 brought people together for five days of glitchy art, hacking/coding workshops, discussions, screenings, lectures, and realtime audio/video performances. All events were free & open to the public and ended up exposing an extremely diverse, amazingly deep, somewhat quirky community. See more;

EXTRAFILE.ORG

Rosa Menkman 

Extrafile.org is a new project created by Kim Asendorf. It's conceptional software art but with a practical usage. Its goal is to wiggle the static system of image file formats.

Kim tells us all information about the project;

"All started with the idea of inventing a new image file format, a format as a piece of art. Far away from the mainstream and commercial standards. Just to express the feeling of using and saving data in a new, fictitious or artificial way. Getting the filename extension into the scope of the artwork itself. In simple terms: Creating an exclusivity." See more;

Jens Hesse

Amazing paintings by Jens Hesse, 1973, Heessen, Germany. Works and lives in Antwerp, Belgium. In his website you can see the paintings grouped by different kind of digital distortions such as influenced by digital distorted satellite signals, datamosh videos, interlace effects, and by anaglyph images. Jens usually paints with oil and acrylic. I really like when he uses corduroy for two of his painting series (digital distorted satellite signals and  interlace effects) to get a excellent digital looks. See more;

Realigning My Thoughts On Jasper Johns by JK Keller

"Realigning My Thoughts On Jasper Johns" by JK Keller is a great glitched work which is  part of an ongoing exhibition at Fach & Asendorf Gallery where you can see the project presented in a 9 screen grid and adjust the volumes and video, see here. 

JK Keller told us interesting info about the amazing distorted process;

"The original video is Simpsons season 10, episode 19, "Mom and Pop Art". I ripped all the frames, then used software to turn the ripped images into vectors. Then I processed the files through Illustrator using the default Alignment & Distribution tools (23 different combinations). The resulting files were then brought back together for the 23 final videos. " See more;

In statu nascendi

"In statu nascendi" is the latest great piece by Polish duo visual artists Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski.

An attempt to capture the most ephemeral moment of the creative process by capturing temporary phases of the render. By analogy with the chemical processes - "In statu nascendi" refers to the intermediate products of chemical reactions, which can not be isolated from the environment of this reaction. There are therefore just "under construction", and then disappear. See more;

Dataswitch at Fach & Asendorf Gallery

GIF courtesy Fach & Asendorf Gallery.

"Ten Falling Objects" is the great ongoing exhibition at Fach & Asendorf Gallery by Paris based media-glitch artist Dataswitch. Highly recommended! See more here.

OSSITY #3 by KOKOFREAKBEAN

"OSSITY #3 - SWAG ET CETERA" is the latest great work by the digital artist KOKOFREAKBEAN. In this thrid issue he follows the same glitchy and crazy way as in the previous ones. 

KOKOFREAKBEAN tells us about the process to create this chaotic RGB world;

"The OSSITY series allows me to voluntarily reduce my skill set and tool box to the bare essentials. My typical "free" video (such as "BUD DUB", "BALLOON ANIMAL", and "FREE DILDA") employs any and all of the programs, videos, pictures, drawings, cg models, etc. that my black cheetah heart desires at any apocalyptic moment. An OSSITY can only consist of simple sculptures made in Maya, minimal After Effects interventions, and sounds made with various Reaktor ensembles. My goal with an OSSITY is to have the audio and visuals complement each other in something approximating pseudo-glitch porn heaven. I start by uniting the right video with the right sounds and build a library of these harmonious collisions. Then, I essentially sample myself and build patterns in Premiere. I repeat this process until I feel I've accomplished the goal." See more;

2Good by Beaty Heart

Beaty Heart was formed in 2010 as a four-piece video-art and music collective based in Peckham, South East London. After a year of bedroom recordings and strange and wonderful live sets, the collective has now developed into a band. With their organic percussive sound clash, its use of lush samples and vocal loops they have been described as a mixture of Battles, Panda Bear, Gang Gang Dance, Flying Lotus and Konono No1. Their studio experiences this year have brought the underlying pop sensibilities their live show always contained to the surface. See more;