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)!