Beat$mith

#this is important context #if you weren’t around at the time it is easy to miss but #anti-corporate sentiment was pretty much the lynchpin of cyberpunk until there were movies and games making money off it #it was the 1980s you guys #the entire point was that corporations are evil and technology should be used to circumvent them and escape their control over our lives #and not be used to make ourselves into another product #now that the internet is entirely monetized and corporate it’s harder to remember that originally it was synonymous w freedom & independence

Chromo Valdez:  Glitch Landscape Gifs

Chromo Valdez is the art project of a touring musician who delivers appliances for money and creates glitch art for fun.  He has created a series of fascinating glitch landscapes that are a perfect representation of the glitch aesthetic; deconstruct the image of the world you THINK you are seeing on the computer screen into what it really is:  digitized circuity fooling your eyes.  Here nature and the computer are presented to your eyes simultaneously, and the results are both beautiful and thought provoking.