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Mon Dec 5 07:30:45 EST 2011

Andreas, thank you for bringing up the issues of politics and societal consequences. I think these are to definitely very important subjects concerning glitch (art) but also very big - just throwing them around makes me worried of them becoming empty concepts (this year we actually organized a panel on glitch politics and I really liked it but also felt it could do with some -preliminary- conclusions) I would like to try to get one step closer to that conversation now.

For the last years and especially during the organizing of the festival and the writing of my little book on glitch theory, (which is downloadable from here) I have been looking for ways to create or talk about glitch theory/practice-frameworks. 

glitch = break in a system
glitch = a fingerprint of a technology
But... what is glitch art?

What other subjects are there to explore, or organize within these frameworks,  and do I really want to set them apart or organize them? What are the dangers of writing these things out? Is it the end of the protocol? (no!)

I feel that the problems of defining glitch, glitch art (and possibly GLI.TC/H) and their roles within glitch art communities are complex. While glitch is mostly technologically defined, glitch art takes the technological occurrence of a glitch to another, more social or metaphorical level. 
In GLI.TC/H the festival/gathering/conference we try to reflect on these problems (that also have to do with authority, hierarchy within organizing, etc). We try to create an open, fluid space for the communities that struggle or work within these perspectives and provide a meeting place for conversation about classic subjects surrounding these communities, like politics, media archeology and aesthetics. But I believe we also try to capture the 'fresher' conversations related to glitch art (glitch art and its practitioners are, for good and for bad, very prone to a freshness fetish). 
Last year the festival focussed on a very particular change within the glitch communities, namely the commodification and standardization of glitch; the domestication of certain glitch effects. There were many motivations for this, but a very specific one was the rise (and demise?) of datamoshing, on which I wrote a blogpost a while back and on which the chapter "From Artifact to Commodity" of my book (as mentioned above) and the exhibition Filtering Failure reflected.
This year I feel there has been a general movement towards text, vernacular or language based glitch art. A good example for this shift was for instance Curt Cloningers GltchLnguistx and the following presentation he did during the panel, to which Curt linked before  (00:16:30-00:46:00) + http://lab404.com/glitch11.pdf , or the growing amount of largely text related glitch-facebook groups, the resurrection of Zalgo and works like Anthony Antonellis' Impulse 101 and A Bill Millers Glitched Ascii Art, the Gridworks series. 
I wonder if this is a general trend in digital arts, or if this is something more specific to glitch art practices?

I also wonder what politics (is there a difference between P/politics?) means, within the perspectives of glitch (art communities) - I know what Nick Briz would say: It is a fluid concept made by the communities. However, I am always looking for more specific definitions, shelves and frameworks so we can break them later and find new glitches. 
If we are afraid to define something beyond it being fluid - how can we still believe in a future for glitch?
Warmly, 
Rosa

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On Dec 4, 2011, at 8:17 PM, IR3ABF wrote:

> do not need to be (irritated), it are the tidal waves of internests ever undulating search for the renovation and rebuilding of its own flawed fundamentals
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> what I do miss are the politcal and societal consequences it needs to expose, for now it is merely based on a *dirty* and *speedy* aesthetics and lacking substance and contemplation, but its alleged freshness and playfullness could eventually develop into something more sustainable and less volatile
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> for a previous FB discussion see:
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> http://www.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/20110816/022380.html
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> Andreas Maria Jacobs
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