cultural analytics

Plotting Glitches

 

The Glitch Art group on Flickr has over 3000 members with over 7000 images. Using Todd Margolis’ Flickr Harvester in combination with Cultural Analytics tools developed by the Software Studies Initiative at UCSD, Tracy Cornish has been investigating emergent patterns in this repository based on Flickr metadata as well as image features.

 

Glitching is an expanding genre in visual arts/cultural theory, electronic music and gaming to refer to the practice of exploiting glitches. These short-lived faults are part of our contemporary experience – they are inextricably linked to our engagement with digital technology and information transfer. As contemporary cultural indicators, glitches have the potential to be employed as an entry point into the critique of post-digital culture.

 

Plotting Glitches is a further investigation, working with Image Plot, a free software tool that visualizes collections of images and video of any size. ImagePlot was developed by the Software Studies Initiative at UCSD.

 

 

Exhibitions:

 

2012   Pattern & Complexity, RIAUS, Adelaide, Australia