“One of the biggest misunderstandings about digital information is that it is replicated identically, without loss or transformation. But anyone who works with such information knows that digital practice is constituted – like perhaps any technology – by malfunction. One has to constantly convert information in order to work with it across different platforms and softwares and on the way it is reformatted, translated, compressed or sometimes even blown up, it is enhanced or diminished: it changes. It changes its format or container or outlook or context.”
When I heard glitch I got excited because I love it and I learned it from the graffitis in Istanbul(the city that I came from). I know that it became popular but I never thought about it as giving a message rather than just visually based. In reality glitch occurs if there is a problem with the functioning for example on TVs. When I think about it and read the rest of the article especially the parts about the society, it can be thought as the dysfunction of the society when applied to art. We are full of errors and we are all different individuals.
Another point given in this paragraph is about the replication process. Compared to the analog ages digital data looks like it can be copied exactly the same as the original one but in reality it is not. Nothing is the same as it is suppose to be. In the project 2, I considered time as a fact that changes everything. You can think that you could do anything twice or over and over again but they will never be exactly the same as each other. Digital information seems to be replicated but it is never the same as the original one. Therefore glitch shows this little differences in a clear vision.
I think there can be many point of views to the glitch effect. Different layers that are used in the glitch work can be thought as different ideas or hidden messages. In each layer you look to see different things and try to notice the differences between layers.
As a result I think glitch can add many meanings to the piece of art. In each layer the visuals look alike, but they are all separate and unique pieces of layers.