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.
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.
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.