I’ve always had a negative interpretation of glitches. To me this indicated that something was faulty. It never occurred to me how glitches can be artistic or appreciated artistically until i came to ADM and got exposed to the different work of art by artists around the world. Bold3RRR presented an opportunity for me to appreciate glitches even more. This probably gave rise to what is known as dirty new media.
“…that embeddedness has the word bed in there, we are in bed w/ them also, so they’re embedded in ways that are complex. they are not sterile, they’re imperfect, they are not clean, b/c they exist in the world, which is also imperfect”
– Jon Cates, “Glitch Expectations: A Conversation with JonCates
This work explores the use of “multicam” experience where the viewer is treated to multiple windows of what goes on realtime. This provides us a unique experience as we are able to see more than one thing happening at a given time as compared to how we would with our own ears since we only have one set of eyes and ears and we definitely cannot teleport or be at two places at once. There was also a therapeutic beat/music when the different sounds were all playing at the same time as if it was a symphony.
This is very similar to the idea of mise-en-scene as Jon Cates presents this idea very well and as I would interpret from what I saw, was somewhat preplanned in the content that he intends to present but what actually happens during the course of the live feed, are some uncontrolled circumstances which made this a unique piece. He places the contents in areas where he probably think would work and all these contributed to what he intends to present, almost like a play.
Amongst the many differences with live art, one thing remains the same. This is, context. I realise that the live feeds all provide the viewer with some sort of context (whether literal or not) in order for them to make sense of what they see. And I think that this is extremely important to bear in mind when we create our own works. This then presents us with the idea of time manipulation.
What this is, is actually the concept of harnessing time but only that it is not happening in a physical state. It is what humans would perceive it to and thus I feel live feeds or dirty new media for what it is, is but a representation of how others view time.
What do you think?
Glad to see you had a new realization regarding glitches! I would have liked to have sees you clarify what you mean by context, you say the work provides some kind of context but I am not sure what you are referring to. Also, whereas they are multiple windows, it’s not really a multicam, there is just one Webcam, unless you consider the view of the desktop a kind of “virtual camera.” Finally, when you speak of the mise-en-scene, you say he present this idea very well, but what exactly is the idea? It would be good to explain. Let me know if you would like to discuss the work further.