Emily2015COFA1002

After my initial research with assessment one, I decided to move away from the obvious technological relation with glitch and more towards faults in humans. I thought of human glitches as medical glitches because a glitch is a fault in a system. I decided to ask my friends what they thought a glitch was, and then based on that answer I asked what was glitched about them. Unexpectedly I received mostly answers revolving around self image/esteem. The reasons why they were glitched were not because of a fault in them at all, but really societies views on people.

When researching I came across artworks as part of a series ‘Failed Memories’ by David szauder which inspired me to move towards human glitches as they showed me how well the glitch effect worked in images of people.

Photography was the best media for me, because it allows me to put the image on a clear digital format. Also, the glitch aesthetic in assessment one that I was able to create on photoshop was quite effective and I wanted to continue this effect.

I chose the mid shot photos so that I could get a clear view of both face and body so that it would work with all photos and corresponding statements.

The way I have glitched the photos is a considered factor. With image 1 the person’s eyes were apparently unsymmetrical and one was stronger than the other. So to correspond with this I created glitched lines going in both directions, as well as one side being brighter than the other. For image two the person’s nose was said to be too wide and doesn’t suit their face. For this I ran lines across the face covering both the nose, face and running out wide past the face. Also, I decided to include more skin colour in these glitches to show play with the fact he thinks his nose doesn’t suit his face. Kind of taking away the nose and replacing it with face. For image 3 the person says things without thinking and pisses people off, therefor I continued lines past the mouth and created them in all different directions in order to create a kind of spill of glitch coming from the mouth. And lastly image 4 the person doesn’t like the way her figure is shaped/ it’s size. There for I made glitch lines run out past the figure and having various glitched shapes stretched out to emphasise the issue with body shape/ largeness.

With all images I decided to completely cover the 'glitched’ areas up. This gives the person a kind of authority in deciding what was glitched and doesn’t allow others to pass comment on these things. It also allows the audience to wonder what is behind and what they find glitched about it, playing with societies views of beauty or image.

The titles of each individual artwork use both typology and specific words to give a small insight into the particular glitch without being too obvious. They adhere to the descriptions of the glitches by each subject.

I drew Inspiration from two works for the making of my artworks , a work by Rosa menkman  (unknown name, see blog) in which she uses colourful glitches to cover facial features. This helped me in putting together my ideas visually, and even though I created my glitches very differently, the covering of the facial features stood out as a great way of expressing my concept. The second work 'Caffeine’ by Mathieu St Pierre gave me an idea of the colours and glitch effects to use in art. With all this I am showing that people’s perception of themselves is based on their self conciousness. This self conciousness is created by societies views and expectations. These views will be realised when the audience start to wonder what is visually wrong with the persons features. In a way a person’s perceptions are glitched and not their features.

FINAL WORK 4

FINAL WORK 3

FINAL WORK 2

FINAL WORK 1

PHOTOSHOOT- ASSESSMENT 2

I was interested in exploring human glitches. I myself would consider a human glitch as a medical glitch. Although after some research and information gathering it became clear that the word glitch associates more with people’s self esteem/self image. I asked some friends of mine two questions without giving them any context and took down their first answer. here are the results.

What is a glitch ? annoying fucked up shit that happens in games and ruins shit. 

What is glitched about you? my mouth because I say shit without thinking and it can make things worse and piss people off

Oil Paintings by Andy Denzler

“Looking like stills from aging home movies on VHS, Andy Denzler’s uncanny oil paintings capture the feel of analog glitches so well you can almost hear the buzzing sound emanating from the television set when looking at them. Denzler fast-forwards or rewinds videotape and abruptly pauses it, and then paints the frozen frame, using smears and rough horizontal lines to achieve the effect.”