Thu 23 January 202523.01.25
20H00—22H00
5 rue des Ecoles
75005 Paris
75005 Paris
“Take a familiar piece of technology and do something unfamiliar with it” – thus Nick Briz explained a basic formula for Glitch Art in one of his famous hypermedia essays that attempted to introduce then new form of digital art activism which exploded in 2010s. But this formula is not new to many artists who had been disrupting the normative uses of the technology, like early avant-garde artists in the 1920s, experimental filmmakers of the 1960s or early video artists of the 1970s. Much like their precedents, this new generation of artists critically approaches the present day digital media landscape, in particular the technoromantic ideology of smoothness and perfection perpetuated by corporate, “upgrade” culture. By embracing noise and error, consciously destabilizing and disintegrating the image and sound through various hacking techniques of hardware and software, the artists expose the material basis of the device, question the myth of progress, their functionality and stability.
This screening program, conceived as a continuous research of error-based moving image, will showcase seven esthetically diverse films from 1990s until present day, which radically subvert the imagery and uses of electronic devices – from video games (Clint Enns, Adonis Archontides), social media imagery (Suhan Lalettayin), popular culture (Juha van Ingen), to highly abstract journeys into the innards of the analogue and digital image (Rosa Menkman, Tina Frank) or computers (Telcosystems). As such, these works call attention to the political nature of the technology and the influence it has on our lives.
