[-empyre-] the glitch and beyond

Timothy Conway Murray tcm1 at cornell.edu
Wed Sep 16 00:59:17 AEST 2015


Hi, Isak and Kathy,

It's so interesting to recall the critical empowerment of the 'glitch' in
video aesthetics, as you both have termed it.  While the glitch is
frequently discussed in sound studies in relation to an "aesthetic of
failure" (via the capture of digital error and failure), it has been so
much more affirmatively instrumental in video aesthetics, especially given
the care in which it was frequently nurtured and crafted through the
artist's working with emergent tools.   Thanks so much for reminding us of
the conceptual force accompanying early experimentations with video tools,
as well their current elaborations in dialogue with digitality by artists
such as you both.

Tim

Timothy Murray
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Taylor Family Director, Society for the Humanities
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu
A D White House
Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York 14853




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