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Rosa Menkman

Ljubljana, Haip 2008.

http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com

Every tool is a weapon if

you hold it right

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In-between manifesto

1. We are not goal-oriented

2. We react to the Spirit of our Time

(Zeitgeist)

3. We celebrate the perceived accident

[via the destructive qualities of the void]

4. We make meaning through our imagination

[via the constructive qualities of the void]

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the Zeitgeist of Flow

In the in-between manifesto we argue

against:

- The linear approach to life

- A pre-patterned flow of technology

and its content

(Society of the Spectacle)

- The freshness fetish

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Silly example of flow

Speedrunning: 5:00 by Andrew Gardikis

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We celebrate the perceived accident via

the destructive qualities of the void

The void is a lack of meaning:

it is the place where the message of the medium

is destroyed.

One way is the technique of the glitch

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Hard to define with words that follow a certain

order.

My definition of digital glitch art:

a sign of a break of the conventional flow in a

system, which often results in a perceived

accident (in a technical, social and/or economic

sense.)

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Coded Ruins

Jodi: (2007)

Gijs Gieskes: Sega-Mega-Drive-1 (2007)

Goto80: HT Gold (2008)Sven Knig: Download finished! (2007)

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Sublime

The sublime is a counter form of aesthetics; a

negative pleasure.

John Dennis 1693

"delight that is consistent with reason mingled

with Horrors, and sometimes almost with

despair"

The sublime is the feeling that something

will happen, despite everything, within this

threatening, disastrous void.

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Wanderer above the Sea

of Fog (1818)

the mist represents

the uncertainty of thefuture, created by the

tension between the

old monarchical

institutions and the

new politicalthought.

Caspar David Friedrich

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Main question of Haip:

Hacktopia: an utopia or dystopia?

is there a to glitch art: utopia or dystopia?