Glitch Art in Theory and Practice

Introduction

This book originated with a short discussion of the problematics around “glitch art” as an inherently critical media practice. My article “Critical Glitches and Glitch Art” published in 2014 by the Swedish art and music journal Hz, is the foundation for the current discussion of Contemporary questions of “critical media.” The question that animates this study, “At what point does an inter-ventionist or hacker aesthetic become a political gesture or institutional critique rather than being recuperated as trendy Formalist technique?”, challenges our Contemporary theoretical apparatus that claims we must not (or cannot) separate generation from reception in determining the correct ways to interpret that work. It is primarily concerned ...