The accidental potential.
A glitch is a rupture in information flow, which forces the
digital file out of its flawless
hyperrealistic design to a reality of randomness and
imperfection.
It exposes the true nature of digital photography hidden
beneath its formal facade.
While everything operates as expected, this fragility remains
invisible, concealed by
the layer of expectations that defines photography
itself.
Compared to traditional chemical photography, the potential
for errors has been
drastically decreased with the advent of digital photography.
For professional
photography this has been a relief and real game changer, as
it relies heavily on
efficiency and performance. For art photography this has
represented a shift in the
way some artists explore and allow errors to intervene in the
creative process. At the
same time, digital photography has become a catalyst for a
post-photographic era.
The original meaning of the word error suggests: to wander
along a different path,
without a purpose, but with the potential for unexpected
results and consequences.
Glitches like these can be generated by fortuity or purpose.
Modernism, Abstract Art,
Dada, Happening and Conceptual Art explored them, and nowadays
it is a key factor
in Dj, remix and hacking cultures.
Serinyà’s body of work orbits around layer
phenomena. At the center of his research,
the exploration deals with some of their defining
characteristics, such as their
invisibility, their capacity for distortion, but most
importantly, the parallelisms that
these phenomena and their consequences have in common with
cultural and social
systems.
In this context, a glitch represents the anomaly that reveals
the presence of a layer
occurrence and it becomes a vital moment of revelation and a
fantastic opportunity
for awareness.
(*) The wilderness in the machine”: Glitch and the
poetics of error | Christina
Grammatikopoulou. (www.interartive.org)!