Rosa Menkman, Dutch artist and theorist, just published a detailed typology of the glitch, including a technical, theoretical and artistic approach.

Graphical glitches or more generally the creative misuse of digital information may be the appropriate response to an all pervading ultra-polished aesthetics. Glitches are nothing new (remember the videos of Chairlift and Kanye West) but Rosa Menkman gives us a new opportunity to enjoy (weird) digital effects.

Download The Glitch Moment(um) for free. See also our “Color Curves” editorial by Fabrice Laroche, published in AMUSEMENT No. 6 “The Bugged issue”.

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