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glitch art

glitch art noun: the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.

Noun

glitch art (countable and uncountable, plural glitch arts)

  1. The practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.
    • The Modernist theoretical framework that argues the appearance of glitch forms in “glitch art” is an inherently critical activity originates with claims that technical failures of all types reveal the material foundations alluding to capitalist productive processes.2016, Michael Betancourt, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 72

Forms of glitch art

pluralglitch arts

Questions about glitch art

What does glitch art mean?
Glitch art means the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.
What part of speech is glitch art?
Glitch art is a noun.
What is the plural of glitch art?
The plural of glitch art is glitch arts.

Words near glitch art in the dictionary

  1. glitazar
  2. glitazars
  3. glitazone
  4. glitazones
  5. glitch
  6. glitch art
  7. glitch fest
  8. glitch fests
  9. glitch hop
  10. glitch hunter
  11. glitch hunters

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