Internet Art &amp; Culture

Sep 14, 2017 - 12:07:23 pm

I am very impressed with your openness and ability to state your impression. And you are so right: Jon Cates is not trying to hide anything, he is revealing, the process, of how we navigate our desktop space, of what it is like to be immersed in that space, as we all are everyday. You were absolutely correct to say that he captured the sometimes unreal nature of our desktop lives, our desktop worlds, where increasingly we live and work everyday. The more you can acknowledge the sense of confusion and error that comes from a work like this, the better you will understand it, and better understand our own digital existence.

Research Critique: Bold3RRR

Hannah

Wednesday, Sep 13, 2017 - 09:30:17 pm

@ Hannah Kwah

The first impression I had when I first watched Bold3RRR was full of confused as I did not understand the concept that Jon Cates was trying to portray. All I saw in the first 10 minutes of the video was many words overlaying the screen which I assumed was what the artist was doing, switching of screens on the desktop Read more →

Categories: Research

Tags: assignment 6 | bold3rrr | Desktop as Mise-en-scene

Sep 14, 2017 - 12:18:39 pm

I am really happy to see that you gave the piece a second chance. And that the interview with Jon Cates illuminated your understanding. Yes, it is important to know how glitch operates on a work like this, and to better grasp the artist's intent. You made a great connection to the idea of things going "wrong," but in the context glitch, wrong may be "right." Just the right amount of wrong you might say! Cates is opening the door for allowing "wrong" things to happen that are surprising and often revelatory in their beauty and surprise. Good research and a well earned realization of glitch art.

Goh Cher See

Sep 14, 2017 - 03:36:45 pm

I have to agree with you that performances art are not just restricted to the few limited mediums that the audiences were interacting with , Jon Cates also experiment with different unique mediums that was fascinating to see. For example, using glitches and audio feedback to create a narrative seems like a idea that wouldn't normally come to our minds. However, Jon Cates' work reflect his creativity and unique thinking process through his unconventional way of expressing narrative.

Research Critique Hyperessay - Bold3RRR

Su Hwee Lim

Tuesday, Sep 12, 2017 - 11:49:24 pm

@ Hwee's

Jon Cates started his Realtime BOLD3RRR… in a totally different way by switching between his desktop share screen and his webcam Skype. Manually controlling of the visual images accompanied by various different noise combine together. It all feel very natural to the artist but a very different style of narration. Although it is different, it catches people’s attention because they Read more →

Categories: Micro-Project | Research

Tags: BOLD3RRR... | Internet Art & Culture | Jon Cates

Sep 14, 2017 - 12:24:32 pm

A very beautiful essay. I think this statement exactly sums up why we are studying this kind of experimental art:

In reflection to the current society when we are too obsessed with perfection we become so serious in a way that we forget how to play and enjoy the process. We also focus on the productivity that we forget to explore the possibility.

You are so right: Jon Cates shows us a way to play, to create something that is so unfiltered that is opens up new possibilities for artistic expression. That is precisely the significance of glitch: it allows all the things we try not to do, it celebrates them, and it shows there are an infinite number of ways of doing things. Rather than only doing the things we think are right, glitch show us how doing things the "wrong" way can be right in an entirely new way. Excellent piece.

Joan

Sep 14, 2017 - 05:06:29 pm

I liked how you quoted Jon Cates' statement about our tendency to ignore those who do not fit into our societal idea of ‘perfection’, and how he offers a new perspective through his works. Indeed, we often forget to play, enjoy and explore possibilities in our subconscious pursuit of perfection. Errors are not setbacks, but rather opportunities for us to explore and create art. Despite its ‘annoying’ nature, I’m glad that this glitch art by Jon Cates is something that you can closely relate to and critique upon. Great reflection! ?

Research Critique - Bold3RRR by Jon Cates

Joan

Tuesday, Sep 12, 2017 - 01:42:14 am

@ Joan

The beginning of the video was rather calm and understandable, as Jon Cates talks about what he wishes to achieve through his desktop mise-en-scene.

“I want to reflect on real-time. I want to reflect on real-time renderings across international time zones, in fragments, errors and overlaps. I want to play with recursivities. These feedback loops merge personal data and Read more →

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Sep 14, 2017 - 12:29:46 pm

Excellent! This was a particularly interesting comment:

He brings attention to all the complication that goes on behind our technology and breaks them apart.

Yes, Cates reveals the things we normally do not allow. All the errors and mistakes we try and hide. But he says: why hide them? Perhaps they are beautiful, interesting, even arresting, which I think they are in his work. He has uncovered, essentially, a world that would ordinarily go unnoticed, a world that lies beneath the surface. Very good research with lots of specifics. Could you please, though, separate your Facebook Live commentary into a separate post. Thanks!!

Dina

Sep 14, 2017 - 05:17:17 pm

I like how you wrapped up your essay by stating how we are unable to run away from glitches because they are everywhere, everything is imperfect. One way to deal with this problem is by embracing them. When we are unable to improve it, exploit it. It is ironic but the more you destroy it, the more beautiful it gets.

Research Critique on Bold3RRR

Mirei Shirai

Monday, Sep 11, 2017 - 09:48:44 pm

@ Mirei's Studio

If the real world is made up of combination of different elements and molecules, the cyber world is made up of codes – lines and lines of letters, numbers, and symbols that creates certain appearance on our phones and desktop. jonCates explores the concept of rebugging the glitch in codes, to translate the imperfect and raw sense of real world Read more →

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Tags: Bold3RRR | glitch | jonCates

Sep 14, 2017 - 12:38:31 pm

Mirei, I took the liberty of changing the URL of your post, because all the typography was making it impossible to open and leave a comment. You have noticed this problem. Regarding the post, this was an interesting statement:

to translate the imperfect and raw sense of real world into the cyber world

This is opposite of how I would look at the piece, but equally valid. I would have thought he is taking the rawness of the cyber world and bringing it to the screen, and thus into the world. However, there is much truth in your statement. He is reacting to the nature of our world, it's imperfections, it's unfiltered quality, and then resituating that rawness in the digital space. Either way, you truly captured what is interesting about Cates' work, his ability to unearth and reveal the beauty of the unfiltered.

Research Critique: BOLD3RRR by Jon Cates

Val Lay

Monday, Sep 11, 2017 - 09:39:05 pm

@ ◢ ◤

After watching Jon Cate’s BOLD3RRR… Realtime: Reflections and Render-times, my brain went into a glitch. I’m pretty sure everyone’s first take on his work is a ‘I don’t understand what’s going on’.

https://vimeo.com/49110316

This recording shows him mucking around with softwares of his daily life, playing with Ableton and switching between screens, making comments as he sets up a desktop misc-en-scene.

For Jon Read more →

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Tags: art | glitch art | internet | jon cates | research critique

Sep 14, 2017 - 12:45:50 pm

A very interesting and revealing response. I am glad you gave Cates' work so much attention and that you were so honest in your critique. You brought up an interesting point: that his glitch not only reveals what lies hidden beneath the surface in our digital representations, but it also reveals something about the artist, certain hidden feelings, fetishes, etc. And yes, the Tumblr feed you looked at is astonishing. I actually mentioned to Jon that I thought it desexualized the imagery but he had the opposite response, so there is much room for interpretation there. But I gather from seeing your own work that Cates may be somewhat of a kindred spirit, somehow is not afraid to go to the limits of excess in terms of creating a mediated experience.

BOLD3RRR Reflection: GLIXCH#^D

Ong Zi Feng

Monday, Sep 11, 2017 - 11:29:39 am

@ Basics

Bold3RRR by Jon Cates was a magnificent piece that explored the eccentric way of glitches and recursivities, I found this piece really amazing due to the fact that it was a live streaming and the effect were rendered in real time.

Bold3RRR seemed to me like Jon Cates had planned to give the viewers a sense of cognitive dissonance by establishing it Read more →

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Tags: OSS | Research | year3 | Year3sem1

Sep 14, 2017 - 12:51:36 pm

Brilliant! I was particularly struck with your observation that Cates' was very clear at the outset what his intentions were. In this way, it was a traditional kind of expository beginning, in which he states that the performance is real-time renderings and reflections. He then proceeds to expand on that idea by creating the experience live and in real-time, unfiltered, and as you say, leaving himself vulnerable to errors and mistakes. However, as you can see, that is precisely his aim, to do everything possible to allows the aberrations to surface, through the live, through exposition his process, and by not hiding anything. I am really glad you found this piece so revelatory, it certainly was for me!

BOLD3RRR Reflection

BAO

Sunday, Sep 10, 2017 - 09:54:43 pm

@ BAO

Bold3RRR by Jon Cates is a eye opening piece for me. With the use of glitches, Bold3RRR was able to evoke a wide range of emotions. Using some computer generated and processed sounds, Bold3RRR was able to let me have a glimpse into a dystopian world. The narration with the frequent glitchy sounds in the background helps to bring the entire piece Read more →

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Tags: cates | glitch | jon

Sep 14, 2017 - 12:56:52 pm

Very good! I particularly liked this comment:

I agree with Jon that we created the environment; the environment which we want to live in, and the environment which we want others to experience."

Jon has created a world on his desktop, and he is inhabiting that world in real-time, unfiltered, to give us a raw insight into the space and its operations. You refer to that world as dystopian. There is one moment in which he presents a work by another artist, with the old-fashioned television-style glitch, which does project a quality that is dystopic. However, I also think that Jon Cates successfully portrays his desktop world as one of beauty, a very personal space, and he is inviting us to have a glimpse.

Hannah

Sep 14, 2017 - 05:08:51 pm

Hi Bao, I agree that through the viewing of Bold3RRR people would create a range of emotions. Some people may dislike how the feedback sounds are created with the multiple screens switching at random moments while others may find that it is a meaningful piece where different parts of our personalities are gel together to create a performance. I personally feel that the environment we create is through how we are being brought up or the types of people we mix with which creates our identity in a way instead of us intentionally creating the environment or wanting to create an environment for other but wanting to make it better. In a way which Jon Cates is portraying that his life or world is such imperfect and impure which translate to his glitch art. Where there is a very thin line between his life and the work he created. Overall, I enjoyed your reflections and I have gain much insights on your view about how we can incorporate this to the masses.

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Sunday, Sep 10, 2017 - 08:18:44 pm

@ CHEESE

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Research Critique of Bold3RRR by Jon Cates

Goh Cher See

Sunday, Sep 10, 2017 - 04:07:34 pm

@ CherSee

Bold3RRR by Jon Cates was an art piece that explores the possibilities of our relationship with technology, of how noises and glitches were the product of our crafting of the digital world. It was a poetic expression of our current expectation of the mechanics, that it was a perfect and clean environment for us to utilize, but Jon Cates thought Read more →

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BAO

Sep 10, 2017 - 10:08:08 pm

Wow, I did not know that there was any 'contamination' too. In my mind, BoldR333 was purely a glitch performance. I guess, since we create the environment with our imperfection, would the virtual world we create make us more and more imperfect? I do agree with you that the desktop is kind of like our house. Nowadays, we spend most of our times in front of the computer, for work, entertainment and communication. It is quite an irony that we live in a imperfect world and we choose to live in it. I enjoyed reading your post! Really good interpretations and thoughts. Keep up the good work!