CHAPTER 13

Glitch

Video/digital breaks down

all art + time = glitch art

Evan Meaney, Facebook post, May 8, 2014

A few years ago I wandered into a presentation by a guy named Evan Meaney at the University Film and Video Association annual conference. He was funny and sounded smart, and was talking about this new-fangled thing called hex editing and glitch art. He had been a student of a friend of mine at the University of Iowa in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, but he wasn’t talking about movies, he was talking about destroying code and entropy and how everything is constantly already devolving. Needless to say I was immediately interested. He also happens to be a very friendly chap so even though I am about twice his ...

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