Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · digital culture, electronic music, error, gaming, glitch, hacktivism, hypertext, machinima, media history, noise, sound art, tactical media, video games
Brings to light the critical role of noise and error in the creative potential of digital culture.
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency, showing how creativity is stirred within the networks of digital culture.
Noise Channels offers a fresh look at hypertext and tactical media, tunes into laptop music, and situates the emergent forms of computer gaming and machinima in media history. Krapp analyzes text, image, sound, virtual spaces, and gestures in noisy channels of computer-mediated communication that seek to embrace—rather than overcome—the limitations and misfires of computing. Equally at home with online literature, the visual tactics of hacktivism, the recuperation of glitches in sound art, electronica, and videogames, or machinima as an emerging media practice, he explores distinctions between noise and information, and how games pivot on errors at the human–computer interface.
Grounding the digital humanities in the conditions of possibility of computing culture, Krapp puts forth his insight on the critical role of information in the creative process.
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2011
Volume 37 van Electronic Mediations
ISBN 0816676240, 9780816676248
216 pages
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Rosa Menkman: The Glitch Moment(um) (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · error, glitch, glitch art, noise
In this book, Rosa Menkman brings in early information theorists not usually encountered in glitch’s theoretical foundations to refine a signal and informational vocabulary appropriate to glitch’s technological moment(um) and orientations. The book makes sense of recent glitch art and culture: technically, culturally, critically, aesthetically and finally as a genre.
The glitch takes on a different form in relation to noise, failure or the accident. It transitions between artifact and filter; between radical breakages and commodification processes. Menkman shows how we need to be clearer about the relationship between the technical and cultural dimensions of glitch culture. Honing in on the specificities of glitch artifacts within this broader perspective makes it possible to think through some of the more interesting implications of glitched media experience. Using a critical media aesthetic orientation, Menkman addresses the ongoing definitional tensions, paradoxes, and debates that any notion of glitch art as a genre must negotiate, rather than elude.
Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011
Network Notebooks 04
ISBN: 978-90-816021-6-7
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
70 pages
GLI.TC/H 20111 Reader[r0r] (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, code, code poetry, error, glitch, glitch art, glitch poetry, noise, signal processing, software
A selection of texts from authors and artists about digital decay, signal interruption, system collapse, and failure.
GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists, hackers, moshers, dirty mediators, noise makers, circuit benders, p/h/i/l/o/s/o/p/h/e/r/s, and those who find wonder in that which others call broken.
GLI.TC/H is an annual international noise && [dirty] new-media event/conference/symposium/festival/gathering for makers and breakers.
With contributions by Tom McCormack, Curt Cloninger, Jon Satrom, Nick Briz, Rosa Menkman, Iman Moradi, Hannah Piper Burns, Evan Meaney, Channel TWo, Mez, Jon Cates, Matthew Fuller, JODI, Alexander Galloway, A Bill Miller, Laimonas Zakas, Iman Moradi
Editors: Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman, William Robertson, Jon Satrom, Jessica Westbrook
Publisher: Unsorted Books, February 2012
ISBN: 978-4-9905200-1-4
Copy<it>right license, copying/sharing is encouraged/appreciated
61 pages
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