For this weeks experiment I was really stuck about what to do so much so I think I manifested a glitch in real life. I was having lunch with my family and the only TV that I was facing happened to be glitching. Now this isn’t something that happens to me on the regular, I don’t think i’ve seen anything truly glitch in a. Really long time. I thought it was written in the stars for me to document this. The purpose for this or what pushed me to get interest in this glitch was because the thought of a glitch is an extremely eerie subject. Everything digital has its own place in the digital world. We don’t know where it sits, how it sends, where they live or quite literally how technology works. I think glitches are really creepy because a piece of media that supposedly exists online is now kind of disappearing?? My thoughts are where does it go or how does it come back or what is interrupting it? These thoughts drive me insane. “They reveal latent forms of abstraction underlying the digital image.” What Cameron says here in this weeks reading is that when a digital glitch appears it becomes almost abstract and not real anymore, for the time being in which it glitches, it struggles to exist. But it also reveals whats backing it up, almost like the curtain being pulled to reveal the wizard of oz but if the wizard was not a human but instead a big black hole of nothing. What I learn through making this experiment is that glitches are creepy and the underlying components of a digital image are very mysterious and I do hope in the future we learn how technology really exists. I also hope one day my editing skills can advance so I can manage to create a music video glitch effect similar to the one we saw in class.
Cameron, A. (2017). 19. Facing the Glitch: Abstraction, Abjection and the Digital Image. In Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty (pp. 334-352). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474407137-022