“Glitch” @ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State Street
September 18, 6pm
Curator Jon Satrom in person!
GLITCH: Creative Problem Creating
What happens when the creative roadblocks—errors, glitches, accidents–become the building blocks in the art-making process? This program highlights artists who intentionally create problems by corrupting data, hacking signals, and manipulating the medium, often to the point of challenging its own display. Curated by new media artist and SAIC faculty member Jon Satrom, tonight’s program gathers together films, videos, hacked TV broadcasts, interactive DVDs, and modified GameBoy tools that revel in failure, rejoice in errors, and celebrate the happy accident. Works include: MY%DESKTOP (JODI, 2002) SUICIDE SOLUTION (Brody Condon, 2004), LINE (Siebren Versteeg (2000); 486 SHORT VIDEOS (LoVid, 2008), gameboy_ultraF_uk, (Corby & Baily, 2001); ATARI NOISE (Arcangel Constantini, 2000); THE WEBSITE IS DOWN (Josh Weinberg, 2008); TIEDOE (Karl Komp & Totek, 2008), among others.
1966—2008, various directors, various countries, multiple formats, ca 90 min.