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#10 Prompter Mag 🫥 Glitch Art

Deliberate Digital Malfunctions

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David "Davicho" Barona
Jul 01, 2023
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Glitch Art

Midjourney Prompt 👆 v5.1: tiger girl hybrid glitch art portrait, digital error, unexpected aesthetics, pixelated image, screen glitch --ar 3:4 --niji 5

Overview

Glitch Art draws upon the visual noise of technological error to create striking and unexpected visual compositions. It leverages digital artifacts, image corruption, and disruptive pixel patterns to create an aesthetic rooted in the language of error.

Midjourney Prompt 👆 v5.1: digital tsunami wave disaster glitch art, digital error, unexpected aesthetics, screen glitch --ar 3:5 --niji 5

Historically

Emerging with the rise of digital technologies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Glitch Art reflects the intersection of art and digital culture. Artists manipulate digital or analog errors for creative effect, exploring the aesthetic possibilities within the 'flawed' and 'unpredictable'.

Influencers

  1. Rosa Menkman (Visual artist and theorist, Netherlands)

  2. Cory Arcangel (Artist, USA)

  3. Phillip Stearns (Artist, USA)

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