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Glitch theory is an interdisciplinary framework that examines the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical implications of errors and anomalies in digital systems. It explores how these disruptions challenge conventional perceptions of technology, art, and reality, emphasizing the potential for creativity and meaning within imperfections.
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Glitch theory is an interdisciplinary framework that examines the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical implications of errors and anomalies in digital systems. It explores how these disruptions challenge conventional perceptions of technology, art, and reality, emphasizing the potential for creativity and meaning within imperfections.

Key research themes

1. How can glitches be theoretically conceptualized to reveal the interplay between material failure, semiotics, and cultural meaning?

This research theme focuses on interpreting glitches not simply as technical errors but as expressive sites that expose the underlying materiality of digital media and disrupt conventional meaning-making processes. Investigations in this area emphasize the semiotics of glitches, the ambivalence between error and expression, and the cultural and ideological frameworks shaping how glitches are perceived and integrated into art and media.

Key finding: Betancourt develops a semiotic framework whereby glitches are examined as ambivalent phenomena simultaneously serving as errors and expressive signs, revealing foundational assumptions about human interpretation and machine... Read more
Key finding: This paper elucidates the material function of glitches in digital cinema as disrupting the assumed transparency between the digital medium and its audience perception, articulating how glitches expose the intersection of... Read more
Key finding: Betancourt critically distinguishes the formalist understanding of glitches as mere technical failures from their potential critical agency in digital media. This work argues that glitches serve as a locus revealing the... Read more

2. What are the aesthetic and cultural implications of glitch art in relation to automation, media, and artistic production?

This theme investigates glitch art as a cultural practice critically engaging with technology, automation, and the evolving conditions of artistic creativity. Research here contextualizes glitch art historically through the lens of resistance to industrial and digital automation, explores the role of errors as assertions of human agency, and situates glitch aesthetics within broader debates about the production, reception, and commodification of art in post-digital and capitalist contexts.

Key finding: This paper situates glitch art within a lineage of 19th and 20th-century artistic resistances to industrial automation, tracing influences from Ruskin and Morris to contemporary glitch aesthetics. It argues that glitch art... Read more
Key finding: Gazana’s curated exhibition and its accompanying texts emphasize glitch art's role in showcasing experimental and subversive practices that disrupt technological and artistic norms. The work underscores glitch art’s critical... Read more
Key finding: This chapter situates glitches within gaming culture as zones permitting error and contingency, contrasting them with conventional human-computer interfaces focused on efficiency. It highlights how glitches enable critical... Read more

3. How do glitches and glitch-events embody uncertainty, contingency, and non-determinism within computational and philosophical frameworks?

This research area examines glitches as phenomena that transcend mere malfunctions to symbolize and enact the indeterminacy intrinsic to digital and computational systems. Studies here engage with glitch-events as epistemic and ontological openings that challenge deterministic, programmed narratives by exploring the virtual, the event, and the non-human intelligence of algorithms, emphasizing uncertainty as a generative condition in computation and making.

Key finding: This article reconceives glitches as events revealing virtual potentials and contingencies in digital matter, arguing that glitches represent unplanned, unpredictable outcomes arising from the interplay of analog and digital... Read more
Key finding: Mills formally establishes the ‘Glitch Principle’ whereby devices making discrete decisions based on continuous inputs necessarily exhibit metastability, yielding arbitrarily long decision delays ('glitches'). This work... Read more
Key finding: This paper articulates glitch-art practices as a 'paralogical' mode that critiques the performative legitimation of research and culture, as diagnosed by Lyotard, by destabilizing system logics and normative knowledge... Read more

All papers in glitch theory

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Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus does not merely consume its prey; it infiltrates, liquefies, and metabolizes its host, integrating extracted nutrients into its own biochemical system. This microbial predation parallels the logic of... more
The concept of the Akashic Records-a metaphysical repository of all knowledge, events, and experiences-has long captured the imagination of philosophers, mystics, and scientists alike. From a systems biology perspective, which emphasizes... more
Evolutionary processes are not governed by a predefined syntax but by a chaotic interaction of genetic changes, environmental pressures, and selective forces. Ayala also addresses the idea of biological processes as exhibiting "alien... more
With a decade of experience in teaching English and a deep passion for literature, Paragkumar Dave is a dedicated Teacher-Researcher and PhD Scholar. Specializing in the depiction of crime and violence in Alan Moore's graphic novels,... more
Introduction from the book Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics. Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of established knowledge that shapes as well as determines our... more
The contemporary digital video art genre of ‘Glitch Art’ enables artistic research with motion pictures to address liminal questions of articulation that were impossible in traditional analogue media. The Glitch Art technique of... more
This monograph was made to research and understand conceptually the artistic genre's signification by using error in the image's data process. In order to reach this end, it was made the analysis of several audiovisuals products, based on... more
Glitch Art emerges from a lineage of cultural concerns with the impacts of industrialization that continue into the present. Just as the invention of photography disrupted traditional conceptions of art, contemporary AImages provoke a... more
To avoid the existential crises associated with AI terraforming, we need a robust ethical framework to underpin our actions. This framework should incorporate the principles of sustainability, ecological considerations, autonomy of life... more
Resumo: O ruído é um conceito importante abordado em diferentes áreas como a música, a comunicação e a informática, adquirindo ao longo do século XX, um papel fundamental para a criação artística. Pesquisas recentes sobre o tema alargam a... more
This project is an analysis of the different innovative video formats for its promotion and development in the artistic and educational field. This essay aims to carry out an historical review of the evolution of this audiovisual media,... more
same time establishing the glitch as a definitional precondition: it is a recovery of technical failure as the formal basis for media practice. These mechanical interruptions of the typical functioning of digital media-whether in audible... more
Mere materiality, the recognition and identification of the "substance" of digital media as an encoded, electronic signal only becomes a critical engagement through a leap from this immanent identification of substance to significance,... more
O evento Exposição On-line Internacional de Glitch Art – Glitch.Art.Br 2021 é uma plataforma on-line projetada para promover, exibir, interagir e fornecer um espaço dedicado para discutir a arte Glitch. Um evento organizado no Brasil com... more
O presente artigo, num primeiro movimento, explora reflexões, conceituações e categorizações realizadas por autores como Moradi (2004), Menkman (2011) e Stearns (2012) acerca da Glitch Art – gênero de arte digital que explora o erro... more
Unstable Systems or Why Is My Junk So Raw? is an exploration in the raw aesthetics of exposed electronics; showing the complicated systems that make our everyday electronics work using the visual language of formalism to display these... more
O presente artigo, num primeiro movimento, explora reflexões, conceituações e categorizações realizadas por autores como Moradi (2004), Menkman (2011) e Stearns (2012) acerca da Glitch Art – gênero de arte digital que explora o erro... more
Contexto digital e pós-digital Sabemos que o impacto da tecnologia digital na arte foi enorme. Vemos isto nas formas de expressões artísticas que surgiram deste contato entre arte e tecnologia, como a Arte Digital, (New) Media Art, Net... more
In which ways glitch art is linked to perturbation? This master's degree research tries to approach definitional and theoretical limits of this new media artistic form. By sketching the glitch art history and by comparing it with some... more
Este artigo trata de um dos desdobramentos estéticos da Arte Digital atual - a Glitch Art. Uma prática artística de subversão, conhecida também como estética do erro digital , pois trata sobre o fazer as coisas da maneira errada, de... more
The article deals with the main theoretical works on glitch art and glitch aesthetics, allowing to make the complete representation of the current state of research of glitch phenomena and to identify relevant approaches to their study.... more
Os campos da arte digital e do design visual vêm se transformando ao longo de nossa história e estas mudanças se mostram tanto no contexto técnico quanto no estético. Nesse sentido, é notória a frequente utilização de meios tecnológicos... more
Este trabalho trata da Glitch Art e busca identificar quais são os procedimentos de criação mais praticados deste recente gênero artístico. Como referências teóricas utilizamos, principalmente, Fernandes (2010) e Gazana (2013, 2014,... more
история глитч-арта в визуальном поле современных технологий, контекст и развитие данного направления.  Типология глитча и основные глитч-практики, современные художники в мире
и в России, развивающие эстетику ошибки.
Este artigo discute o surgimento e as principais características estéticas visuais da Glitch art, um dos desdobramentos estéticos da arte digital. Iniciamos com a definição do termo glitch e apresentação da Glitch art e suas duas... more
Este artigo discute a arte Glitch digital e suas relações com a arte visual do passado, com ênfase na arte moderna, com o intuito de entendermos o porquê e como este recente gênero artístico e sua estética são apreciados atualmente.... more
Este artigo discute a Glitch art, seu surgimento e suas principais características e qualidades estéticas visuais e sonoras. Iniciamos com a apresentação e definição da Glitch art e suas duas classificações: Pure Glitch e Glitch-alike.... more
Lashev, L. & D. J. Dimitrova, 2008. Comparative allometric analysis of three isoxazolylpenicillins in four mammalian species. Bulg. J. Vet. Med., 11, No 4, 269−273. Comparative allometric analysis of selected pharmacokinetic parameters of... more
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