I’m happy to see the lat­est install­ment of the “Off Book” series from PBS, this time tak­ing a look at Glitch Art. We have been going back to the sub­ject or related top­ics on sev­eral pre­vi­ous arti­cles: Aes­thetic of Fail­ure, Chip­tune, The Evo­lu­tion of 8-Bit Art, Ani­mated GIFs and Hack­ing man­ual.

Some of the artists men­tioned in the video are: Phillip Stearns, Scott Fitzger­ald, Anton Marini and Daniel Temkin.

We men­tioned that the ori­gins of the glitch aes­thetic can be traced to the early 20th cen­tury, with Luigi Russolo’s Futur­ist man­i­festo The Art of Noises, the basis of noise music. The purity, pristine sound and images and per­fect copies are aban­doned in favor of errors and glitches. What pre­vi­ously would have been seen as noise: a by-product is now the star of the show.

Glitch art also over­laps other art forms like 8-Bit Art, gen­er­a­tive art, kinetic and op art, etc. And we had men­tioned a few artist that we love and that have ven­tured into express­ing this mod­ern view of the world. We men­tioned Ser­gio Albiac, Max Capac­ity and Anthony Sneed.

There are many really good artist work­ing with this aes­thetic and it is very dif­fi­cult to make jus­tice to them all and men­tion every sin­gle one, I’m sure there are many that I have not even heard about yet, no mat­ter how famous they might already be, so I apol­o­gize to them for not fea­tur­ing them on this arti­cle, but I will how­ever men­tion another couple.

There is the mag­nif­i­cent work of Notendo for exam­ple. We were also very impressed with the work of bac­te­ri­asleep that has some beau­ti­ful exam­ples of photo and video glitch and last but no least Anto­nio Roberts.

Finally, let me leave you wit one tune by Slu­gabed that I think goes with the topic. I hope you like it: