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Accidents. Never happen in a perfect world.

Here we present byproducts of our daily work, roots ...

Keywords: Glitch Art - Kink In Optics - No More Excourses - Art Of Disruption - Accidental Accidents - Slip Sliding Away - Loss Control - Indivisible Visible

One aspect of Art & Accidents are whirring screens, pixelated images and blurred photographs in focus on the poetic side of the flawed, kinda kink in optics. Who hasn't experienced the potentially frustrating tension that sets in when the data transfer freezes again. When the display turns into a smashed mess because the technology doesn't do what we expect it to. In the art of disruption, we work with everything from accidental accidents to those caused intentionally. Playing with irritation and loss of control is part of our business. Any way.

Art and technical development always go hand in hand and mark the great upheavals beyond the fashions that tend to repeat themselves. It only works by being different, by being against it, by critically questioning the media's closeness to reality, by creating new worlds, by uncover normative orders and socio-political disparities and, last not least, by making the invisible visible. Broken displays, crackles in sound transmissions, frozen images in a call. Moments of disruption that our attention goes to technical nature of every day media, pushing themselves into the foreground. As one of the most unpredictable kind of art, glitch art deliberately draws attention to the production of the flawed, kinda back-stage stuff, a by-product with it's own sense and beauty.

The origin of the english term glitch lies in the early new high german 'glitschen' and the yiddish 'gletshn', which means to slide, slip and slip away. First used in the 1950s in the technical jargon of radio and television technicians, the term glitch was soon used in the context of computer games to describe errors in programming or graphic stuff as a glitch. A glitch therefore is the unexpected result of a disfunction happens not only in games, in other digital output too. In the context of art of disruption the technical glitches in digital worlds also find their direct expression in the field of computer-generated images. However, the roots of technical glitches go back to the early days of photography as an artistic counter-movement to recognized forms of expression, they take their course from photography via avant-garde film, video and sound art to digital image media and net art by deliberately provoking or specifically programming image disturbances.