Calendar

Participating artists:
Mit Werken von Fabian Hesse & Mitra Wakil, JODI, Joan Jonas, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Rosa Menkman, Mame-Diarra Niang, Carsten Nicolai, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Man Ray, Pipilotti Rist, Raoul Ubac, u.v.m.

Venue:
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Straße 40
80333 München

Cracked smartphone displays, distorted images, colorful pixel structures. Only at the moment of the glitch does our attention turn to the nature of the technical media that surround us every day, but without pushing themselves to the fore.
One of the youngest and most unpredictable art forms, glitch art specifically draws attention to the aesthetics of the erroneous. First used in the 1950s in the jargon of radio and television technicians, the term glitch (Yiddish gletshn - to slip, slide away) soon came to describe programming or graphic errors in the context of computer games. A glitch is the unexpected result of a malfunction that occurs not only in computer games but also in other digital software as well as in video and audio. In the art context, glitches find their immediate expression in the realm of computer-generated imagery, the digital, and Internet art. The roots of technical glitches, however, go back to the early days of the history of photography; as an artistic countermovement to recognized forms of expression, they take their course from photography through avant-garde film and video art to digital image media in that image glitches are deliberately provoked or deliberately programmed.