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- Ana DiFranco
In-between manifesto
by Lievnath Faber, Tim van der Heijden and Rosa Menkman
we do have a goal, but we are not goal oriented. To us, there is no absolute goal. The dominant goal is progress. This goal is always at the horizon. Therefore, our goal lies within the here now: we aim to develop a consciousness of the mechanisms of this goal oriented society.
3. We celebrate the perceived accident [via the destructive qualities of the void] 4. We make meaning through our imagination [via the constructive qualities of the void]
In the in-between manifesto we argue against: - The linear approach to life - A pre-patterned flow of technology and its content (Society of the Spectacle) - The freshness fetish
Today we are back to the quest of the Renaissance: reality through immediacy. holy grail is Holodeck of Star Trek. We take a stance against the binary and linear approach to life. In the binary and linear system, technology is no longer a means but has eventually become a goal in itself. We feel that today, one is, without realizing, caught up in a linear ow of technology and its content. Flow is constructed within the capitalist world and the Society of the Spectacle. In this preprogrammed, patterned ow, one has lost control and ones active choices are being suppressed by political powers at work. A characteristic of the ow is the freshness fetish, through which we perceive the need to be on top of every development. We want to recapture our agency and regain the power of choice again. In order to recapture our agency, we must create an awareness of the ow.
Accident
Virilio:
Every technology has its own accidents. These accidents also have positive consequences; they are necessary to knowledge because they open up possibilities for discussing a systems internal politics. Therefore, we need to systematically distort communication
http://www.onoci.net/virilio/pages_uk/accidents/liste.php?th=1&rub=1_3
Conventions establish themselves over long periods of time. The computer is programmed to work perfectly, this is why deviation is often perceived as an error or an accident
We celebrate the perceived accident via the destructive qualities of the void The void is a lack of meaning: it is the place where the message of the medium is destroyed. One way is the technique of the glitch
In the void one is triggered to reect upon the conventional frames, to criticize the ow, which we have taken for granted and through which we are conditioned to take part of the spirit of our time.
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Hard to define with words that follow a certain order. My definition of digital glitch art: a sign of a break of the conventional flow in a system, which often results in a perceived accident (in a technical, social and/or economic sense.)
Coded Ruins
Jodi: <$BlogTitle$> (2007) Gijs Gieskes: Sega-Mega-Drive-1 (2007) Goto80: HT Gold (2008) Sven Knig: Download finished! (2007)
Knowledge is often conveyed in predened, pre-formatted ways. Jodi shows that blogger is an assemblage of discourses and that the error is socially constructed. <$Blogtitle$> resides at the boarder of sense and nonsense, system and nonsystem, truth and interpretation. Therefore, it is on the Line of ights It show the interior politics of the medium and gives us a way to reterritorialize environment and ourselves. The works of Gijs and Goto80 can both be understood within the lines of detournement: they repurpose parts of the original. This generates a form of machine poetry that redenes the hardware or software.
Sublime
The sublime is a counter form of aesthetics; a negative pleasure. John Dennis 1693 "delight that is consistent with reason mingled with Horrors, and sometimes almost with despair" The sublime is the feeling that something will happen, despite everything, within this threatening, disastrous void.
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Main question of Haip: Hacktopia: an utopia or dystopia? is there a to glitch art: utopia or dystopia?