Reading Blog #1

I read the glitch manifesto as something closer to poetry than to literal explanations, full of promise rather than instruction. The point that stood out most to me was the short distinction and elaboration between those who seek out "natural" glitches and those who use effects and filters to produce the appearance of glitch. Many artists could find the latter to be easier, as it maintains more control over the end product. Art created through control and art created with nothing more than a guided/curated hand often have distinctly different feelings and outcomes. One perhaps is a demonstration of human ingenuity while the other is a demonstration of the natural beauty existing already.

Glitch as a medium speaks to that second demonstration, as a sort of "accidental" art. My own experience with glitch is its ability to bring out the uncanny and horrific, to strip away the certainty of the computer if only for a moment. That experience seems to align with this manifesto's preachings; that glitch art's beauty comes from its place in a "fragile equilibrium," and a testing ground for what digital pain would be like.