Topic > Digital image and how digital aesthetics can be described

Where the digital represents the exact order and precise control of virtual realities through mathematical dualities symbolized in binary code or machine language, the "glitch" in art digital is an example of chaos in order, or the moment of singularity expressed by space, time and mind in the image. Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin define the glitch as the symbol of the first generation of web art or net art, the artistic expression of the global underground community in the dot.com era of the birth and expansion of the Internet. “Glitch: This term is usually identified in jargon, used in electronic industries and services, circuit bending professionals, gamers, media artists and designers. In electrical systems, a glitch is a short-lived error in a system or in a machine. A glitch appears as a defect..." (Goriunova & Shulgin, 2008) It is the breakdown and error of systems that produces the opportunity for a genuine individuality or subjectivity of the postmodern digital artist . Individual self-expression is reduced to an ironic flaw within the larger matrix of social programming and control, but is heroically experienced as an overcoming by the person through the creative identity of the self. The glitch is the spontaneous ecstasy and spark of life referenced in the mythology and fairy tales of Artificial Intelligence in science fiction: the phantom soul in the machine versus man as god. The artist seeks the reflection of singularity through artistic expression, but to go beyond the limits, the tautology imposed by the software must be transcended by the chaos of the glitch. The glitch is the software expression of the human in software through the most fundamental characteristic of modern humanity, human error. This is experienced as the ir...... half of the article ......sted by Feisal Ahmad, available on Rhizome with permission from Geert Lovink, 2003. Web, viewed 28 December 2010, .Munster , Anna 2001, Digitality: Approximate Aesthetics, CTHEORY, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Editors, 2001. Web, viewed 28 December 2010, < http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=290 >.Nettime 1999 , ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge, New York: Autonomedia, 1999.2006, The Last Avant-garde: Interview with Mark Tribe & Reena Jana, nettime-l, Web, October 30, 2006, viewed December 28, 2010, .Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1869, Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus, Boston: Sever, Francis, & Co., 1869.Tribe, Mark & ​​Jana, Reena & Grosenick, Uta 2010, New Media Art, Taschen Basic Art Series, Cologne: Taschen GmBH, 2010.