Iman Moradi – Glitch Aesthetics
Iman Moradi – Glitch Aesthetics
Iman Moradi – Glitch Aesthetics
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<strong>Glitch</strong> <strong>Aesthetics</strong><br />
<strong>Iman</strong> <strong>Moradi</strong><br />
Unwanted<br />
“ …‘failure’ has become a prominent aesthetic in many of the arts in the late<br />
20th century. ” (Cascone, 2000)<br />
New advancements in communication, it seems, seek more bandwidth, more<br />
resolution and more clarity as hardware capability and processing power increases.<br />
There certainly seems to be no time to stop and appreciate the qualities of the<br />
glitch, as a textural feature of digital media. In the world of perfect<br />
telecommunication, glitches are undesirables for which countless error checking<br />
protocols exist with the sole purpose of eliminating them. In terms of<br />
representation, the ones that don’t make it into modes of audio or visual<br />
communication are merely represented as a trace log of error occurrences that<br />
could be used to eliminate further instances before they happen. This<br />
symptomatic lack of function or unwanted function in society, gives the glitch its<br />
unique status in art.<br />
“If any social function is to be ascribed to art at all, it is the function to have no<br />
function” (Adorno, 1984) In society, maybe we can find the notable exception<br />
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