Glitch Art Video Essays

I found “How to / why make internet art” to be the most eye-opening and also inspiring of all the video essays we watched by Nick Briz. There was obviously some overlap with the 3rd video in the glitch art series “The politix in / of glitch art” but it was far broader and made me think about how limitless the medium really is in creating and sharing creations. Most of us don’t really think about the power of the internet because it’s something we use every day, but as Nick Briz said, it’s still growing and not even close to complete. I really appreciated his reasoning for everyone to create glitch art on a daily basis. I think describing it not as necessarily intentionally creating art, but more as an exercise in misuse of software and technical tools to be really useful, and definitely got me thinking about it in an entirely different way. I’d like to play around more with different programs I also found the copyright video essay “Youtube content ID: what copyright gets wrong” to be extremely fascinating, as well as pretty infuriating. The idea of punishing people, especially people creating educational content for using material that is owned for the sole purpose of making money off said people is ridiculous. It also definitely goes against a lot of what the internet is about in terms of creating, educating, and sharing content. Overall I found Nick Briz’s video essays to be really informative and well written. They didn’t feel dry at all, and the use of various quotes and clips to back up his points didn’t leave any questions about the legitimacy of his claims.