What is your glitch? 1bitgifavibmpbmpcmykbmprgbjpgmpgpcxpixpngppmsgisvgtgawebp will be screening alongside some more awesomerererer glitch videos at Destructural Video as part of Leeds International Film Festival 2011 on November 17th
Can the electronic stutters, crashes, errors and glitches that we encounter with technology in our day-to-day lives be considered beautiful in their own right? This programme of extraordinary video work showcases contemporary artists who exploit and explore the imperfections hidden in the signal/ data structures of moving image technology to striking effect. Recalling early video art experiments and key films from the Structural movement, these sometimes abstract but always emotional videos ultimately reveal the human qualities inherent in the technology we have created, electronic warts and all.
This free screening will take place at Granary Wharf at 20:30. Be there or be q̢̘͔̖͎͕̗͓͓̩͇͕̳̪̟̱̟ͯ͂͐͛̐͊͝ͅu̷ͮ̽͌̄ͪ̔̑̕҉̥̜̭̠̮͔̱͍̬̯̞ͅa̡̨͊̎ͩͮ̀ͭ̃̓ͯ̿ͧ̃ͦͨ́̚̚҉̝̤͈̻̮̪̳̠̟͈̖͔̪̼͔ŗ͚̜̦̘̥̪̟̳̈̈́͐̓̌̇̔̎̈́͋̀͞ȇ̢̜͖͕̖̥̰̝̪̖̥͓̭͖̫̈̏̄̔ͅ
I was there for about an hour and in that time I probably saw the result of only 5 minutes of footage! As is my understanding the film was shown at one frame every half-second. What I find interesting is that if this was shown using a traditional reel of film you’d have to have 12 frames of the same picture followed by another twelve frames of another still picture, thus creating the effect of playing two frames per second. However, due to the absence of noise that would usually come from the projector I’d guess it is a digital projection and because of it with each frame you get slight pixelation in each frame. I would’ve liked to have seen it being projected using reels of film, which then presents the screening of the actual movie as a performance in itself. After doing some research, however, I can see that this wasn’t really the intention of the artist.
