This article is part two of a three-part series.
To read the first part, see: https://www.publish0x.com/kire/glitch-and-the-art-of-letting-go-part-1-the-initial-disturba-xejjxqq
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In the first part of the series, I discussed what glitch art is and how it functions as a meditation on the technological world in which we find ourselves. In part two, I would like to explore how glitch art can re-contextualize our perceptions, and provide a lens through which to see the limits of our biology.
Human perception is grounded in a biological system, it is organic; however, the programmatic interpretation of data by a digital system is purely logical and incongruent with the perception of biological organisms. The logical world of electronics is unaware of the biological world of the organism and does not embody the same prejudice of biology. While a scrambled JPEG with a melting face may appear as a glitch to the human eye, it is a perfectly logical outcome of the algorithm that produced it. The chasm between interpreting something as meaningful in a biological system and interpreting something as meaningful in a digital system is vast.
To read the final part, see: https://www.publish0x.com/kire/glitch-and-the-art-of-letting-go-part-3-importance-in-the-my-xlllmrq
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