TRANSFORMATO is essentially "photograph" , which after being altered
becomes a hybrid of graphics and contemporary sculpture , fusing techniques
like audio post production and video , digital processing of analog
photographic image to a more advanced level of corruption formats as it is from
film negatives , mini DV tapes , VHS tapes up .
The phenomenological problems of work lay in the need to express two opposing
planes at once ( subject-object , space-time, matter-spirit , chaos - order
noise - silence, light-dark , digital - analog) to give emphasis to
technological process as a means of analysis and discussion, which is the
plastic material work.
The visual glitch is a manifestation of the failure, in most cases means the
interruption of data tranfer from one source to another , that is, from lack of
communication between binary systems. Aesthetically, the glitch art are evident
features of visual composition as repetition , fragmentation - by - pixel , the
linearity and noise.
The contemporary context is a factor that makes the glitch aesthetics; live in
an age where everything is based on ideals of perfection and somehow , the
glitch art breaks all these paradigms to generate a new perception of the world
around us . Technological errors resulting from malfunctioning machines ,
manifest in imperfect images that were rubbish at some point, and now object of
our appreciation.
TRANSFORMATO
is the result of a thorough investigation into digital formats and their
reaction to the different methods of data corruption or databending term that
refers to the alteration of data containing a digital image. For example , if
an image is opened in a text editor ( Wordpad, TextEdit, gedit , etc. . ), The
image is shown as a composition of characters; these characters make up the
image information regarding their color, size, organization and pixel shapes in
general. This construction process of artistic approaches to the reality of the
digital image .
Contextualize the digital format as a
metaphor, is a current research that take place under the glitch aesthetics and
her limits, the problems of virtuality in terms of physical spaces to leave the
galerys and remain in the web ; the error generated guide,a reserch aesthetic
that questions the ideals that have been raised theoretical around digital
artifacts .
Getting closer to glitch as a hybrid of specialties such as graphics,
photography and contemporary sculpture , we see the possible techniques are
mixed to generate a work that highlights a current reality.
The glitch arts as a relatively new
means of expression , is projected into both social networks and the internet,
looking to highlight artists from around the world who agree on the same ideals
, creating a loud and wrong movement , inspired by the aesthetics of
malfunctioning machines.
The hand of the artist intervenes the data and leaves its mark on the visual
essence of the image ...
TRANSFORMATO is the expanded concept of contemporary digital
photography. Where an audio file after being subjected to digital processes ,
becomes a picture or sculpture ; this approach reaches the limiting of glitch aesthetics or possible the death to
this genere.
It is a manifesto against the distance that has been generated from the use of
software design that have default filters , and with its simple use will block
the user's creativity to give result to images of mold or products of these
same filters . It breaks with this creative process to become slaves to the
filters or default templates programs in general.
Using default filters for creating digital art is a very conformist action ,
which is reflected in today's society where all objects possess are a product
of that conformity.
Playing with a digital file, shape the data , stripping a memory play a specific
moment in time , transform an image are some of the things that
attract from the glitch practice.
It can be compared with
what the conscience when building a dream ; data randomly in the latter case
would be our memory, memories, experiences and gradually gives you a way is
chosen.
Works of art glitch revealed a penchant for art of error and distortion
of data, with a search request a change in matter , and in this case not
virtual but real.
The glitch art destroys all
traditional metaphors of the digital industry : no windows, no mouse , no
scroll bars , by contrast , suggests digital art in a different way . The
characteristic error glitch makes us reflect on the vulnerability of the
controller information society . . Below operating systems like google , social
networks, etc. , no programming codes ; they are a constant source of errors
and curiosities, like the fact that the browser window is not really a window
but a set of zeros and ones.
Factors such as interest in new
technology , constant research of artists on the web, live in a city that
projects contamination in all aspects ( visual, aural, the aggressiveness of
the people on the streets ) , the constant sense of political instability and
insecurity , gradually leading to the author Hoc Grade to narrow your artistic
research through the glitch aesthetic. A kind of alchemical practice that
transforms everything chaotic visually perceived images ( glitches ) ,
harmonics and sound ; this practice is the means to sensitize the viewer around
the digital plane.
In the data , it is easy to see the malfunctioning of computers, the endless
possibilities that come with software to generate errors , which seems to
correspond with the chaos and graphically explained.
The glitch art is a revelation of the
digital era, probably against control information system in general, to remind
us that we are human and not machines, that the presence of error is
inevitable. It is possible to observe in everyday of our lives.
The error , in most cases manifest with intent to convey a message , which
leads to the need to generate and spread down to the essence of the picture,
sound , words, and other events that destroy our routine . Everything in life
has its moment of rupture, break , transformation . The glitch is not only a
digital error ; at many stages of history , the error has appeared in various
expressions in the plastic and music, for example. Today we appropriate it to
consciously change our context.
TRANSFORMATO is a manifestation of binary character may represent a genuine
fondness for computers and dissatisfaction with the aesthetics of perfection; a
new language that is discovered as a communication medium , the appropriation
of the error as a compositional principle .
Through this artistic practice , a plastic piece that holds in reality with
your digital essence is obtained , it aims to become a tangible and enduring
part in time, within the context of ephemeral virtuality.
The history of photography can be seen as a dialogue between the desire
to be closer to reality and the difficulties in doing so. So , despite
appearances, the domain of photography lies more properly in the field of
ontology than for aesthetics. ( Foncuberta , 1997 )
TRANSFORMATO is the expanded concept of
contemporary digital photography. Where an audio file after undergoing bending
low data processes ,
becomes a generative glitch taking an
indefinite way in the virtual space.
Move the corrupted digital format, plastic context involves a series of
questions and approaches concerning the museological space, time , materials,
lighting , weight, volume involve such transfer would also have to consider the
political, social context, where we live at present to undertake such action.
Initially I wanted to develop a series of cubic modular sculptures that
represented the corrupt digital formats (at pixels ) of an image . Jpg randomly
altered text edit , hence the
crominancias born .
The idea of moving a digital corrupt file to the context of plastic and
sculptural formalism, comes from the need to generated a particular glitch in
the physical space, a modular
cubic projection that could represent corrups patterns of digital formats processed through various methods of data corruption or
databending.
Advancing research TRANSFORMATO,
approaches the spatial glitch, as a unification of technical
experienced and the collapse of digital systems.
" Our selfts are involved in the
spiral of the outside-in , drawn by another revolving door of the unconscious
."
Derrida
The Glitch Art evolves hand of technology, like a virus that spreads inside the
virtual space and then projected into physical space . These two spaces in
constant communication ( museums , galleries , streets, nature, ) corresponding
to the virtual spaces ; misunderstood and not as a mistake but as a new
aesthetic defined by the misuse of the machines.
This artistic practice reflects a particular way of interacting with computers
and a way of perceiving the world from another context; the error generated
triggers a series of changes within the data , such as a memory that is
distorted by contact with matter , creating an inevitable poetic context .
The glitch is an alchemical practice experience for the total transformation of
the digital - to matter at some point was a foreign - stimulus to be processed
by one or more machines to return to the physical space as a virtual appliance
, sound , sculpture , plastic .
From the
glitch practice we get lost in the abyss of
virtuality and the infinite possibilities of error.
But what message we want to convey the beauty of digital error? It is a
reflection of ourselves through the machine, the need to transform reality, and
keep the unexpected emergency , the constant awareness of the binary operation.
" To think about how to
generate an error , is to think the error in a
different way ." Not have control of the results is a research
within the invisible essence of the image .
The glitch art is a genere that takes resources from film , music, sound , art,
to make a remix or collage on the registration of virtuality in terms of
creating a saturated whole aesthetic , criticizing perfection and the desire
for it . The glitch is an experience that is deeply linked to scientific
knowledge , technological vanguard , always changing . And so, the future of
the glitch is subject to technological developments , no glitch without technology
, because it will determine the technological tool to be used by the creator .
The break is another consequence of working with an aesthetic that manifests
itself as an independent entity in response , a tear in art and already
obsolete canons. Today, it has become a pop aesthetic , because it has been
crowded , but not without its origin in the transgression of perfectionism that
would go hand in hand with technology.
The digital
error studies have led to the author of this degree thesis on a long journey
into the endless possibilities of aesthetic appreciation digital format , a
process that involves a series of moral , philosophical and spiritual , similar
questions about the relationship between the virtual world and reality, " the
retro projection that exists in man , seeing himself reflected in the machine,
" not as a binary entity perfection, but as a source of errors , something
much more human and sensitive, the "glitch " is now perceived not as
a challenge to the digital level, but as a possibility within the spectrum of
everyday life, appreciating reality , transform , distort it , to build it ,
make use of natural patterns to break and flow in its randomness .
From this it is
evident once again , the true source of all artifice : the human, the flawed
nature.
