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Broken smartphone displays, a crackle in the radio transmission, frozen images in a video call. It is only at the moment of disruption that our attention is drawn to the nature of the technical media that surround us every day, but without pushing themselves to the fore.
As one of the youngest and most unpredictable art forms, glitch art specifically focuses attention on the productive side of the flawed. First used in the 1950s in the technical jargon of radio and television technicians, the term “glitch” (early New High German “glitschen” – to glide, to let glide – or Yiddish “gletshn” – to slip, to slide away) soon described programming or graphic errors in the context of computer games. A glitch is therefore the unexpected result of a malfunction that affects not only computer games but also other digital software such as video and audio. In the art context …
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Abb. oben: !Mediengruppe Bitnik und Sven König, (Carmen Weisskopf, *1976, CHE, und Domagoj Smoljo, *1970, ISL) und Sven König (*1975, DEU) Download Finished. The Art of Filesharing, 2006, 3-Kanal-Videoinstallation, Farbe, Ton (Videostill), Collection HEK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) | HEK (Haus der Electronischen Künste Basel), Copyleft: !Mediengruppe Bitnik & Sven König
