Glitch Art

 When first discussed in class I found glitch art to be very interesting and aesthetically pleasing. It just goes to show that all art isn’t created on purpose, and some of the best pieces could solely be coincidence and made “by mistake” or by glitching something like a file. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to glitch anything on my laptop. I found it to be interesting that in “how to glitch art [part 1 of 4], Nick Briz said that “if you’re lucky” you get glitch art if you do not get the “error screen”. In the same video he said we could open it as a voice memo or the notes app on the laptop, so I wonder if I tried to “do something unfamiliar” with the voice file it would make glitch art as opposed to using the notes app on my laptop, since that didn’t seem to work. In the same video when he started working on doge, I didn’t think it would make a difference that he put a random c in, so I was surprised when it changed the color to only one portion of the picture. And later on as he kept working on it, the file was completely different and looked nothing like the start. I appreciate Nick Briz’s “definition” and explanation of what glitch art is, and that it is not “computer malfunction” rather it is “an unexpected moment in a system that calls attention to that system”. The fact that we are able to alter a file so slightly and have such a change in the file amazes me, and I hope I can get it to work on my laptop!