My video is inspired by the following music Fluffy Clouds by The Orb. It’s a chill-out music with electronic twist to it.
I search for both cloud and sky and upon playing I switch between the both results.
When the video is playing, I arbitrarily adjust the brightness, contrast and saturation.
Same goes for the sound. I increase and decrease the pitch to get different effects.
I am using a PC so I had problems recording the video as a separate file so I use a 3rd party software CamStudio to record it instead.
Software issues are expected for glitch and internet art. Despite having problems working with Max (due to it being made for Mac), I am able to solve it using the PC method. Encountering unexpected issues are all part of the experience.
A glitch is a fault. A fault that reveals the vulnerabilities within the program. Therein lies the fundamental of the “peep culture” — a pervasive yet subconscious voyeuristic attempt in discovery the forbidden zone. The glitch is also the blueprint for “dirty new media”. A medium glorifying the raw yet spontaneous flux within the cyberspace.
Shredder 1.0 (1997) by Mark Napier is a simple browser game as much as it is a net art. This free source browser allows us to “shred” a given website to pieces. By unscrambling the code of the site (with no direct consequences to the victim site) and rearranging them in random patterns, we have what we can considered the Jackson Pollock of the internet. Thus, creating an intentional glitch.
That is what glitch is all about, revealing the naked skin of a program. When a glitch happens, we the audience gain a peep into said private space, albeit not the most saucy nor interesting one.
Shredder 1.0 (1997) is a peephole. A boring peephole (unless someone feels excited about seeing messed up codes instead of hidden sensational messages), but an interesting piece of toy. And as Jon Cate said, glitch is attractive because it is functioning even if it is broken. It reveals to us that any intricate, complex website are made up of nothing but strings of words, numbers and symbols regardless of what they are. The fundamental of the cyberspace is that it is nothing but a repetition of patterns. It is a “dirty new media” — a product of raw automatism. Just like how an individual humans are, a repetition of genetic codes. In essence, we are not so different than the computer program we dissect everyday.
The concept of glitch has turn up constantly in the pop culture.
An episode from Adventure Time dedicated to glitch.
An sensation subculture due to the video games.
Why do people love glitch so much? Because it can turns an otherwise conformed subject matter into something utterly ridiculous and hilarious.
At the end of the day, we human simply love to destroy take things apart and mock the resulting mess.
