The Workshop
This workshop is an invitation to disrupt the aesthetic status quo, looking at Glitch Art as a method of thinking and making. Starting from classical subjects such as the human body and portraiture, you will explore how fractured and anomalous digital systems behaviours can become opportunities to question standards of beauty, representation and control.
The Details
The workshop focuses primarily on Databending as a starting point, and as a critical and practical technique. Participants will learn how to intentionally corrupt files, misuse software and formats, and disrupt digital workflows to generate unexpected visual outcomes, putting machines under pressure, forcing them to complete tasks they were not programmed for. Brief introductions to AI-based processes will be included as unstable systems open to manipulation and experimentation.
We'll hack and break languages and codes to see what's beyond the average standards of uses. The aim is simple and uncomfortable: doing the wrong things the right way. Through guided experimentation, participants will repurpose mistakes, treating failure as a starting point. We'll approach this practice as digital explorers of new lands. Glitches will be used to distort the body, fracture identity, and destabilise familiar visual codes, opening space for ambiguous, complex and unsettling forms of beauty.
The workshop encourages participants to work from their previous knowledge and own artistic practices, while also pushing them toward unfamiliar, critical media strategies. Themes of imperfection, inclusivity and non-normative aesthetics run throughout the sessions, grounded in hands-on practice rather than theory-heavy definitions. This is not about making the weird cool. It is about making art less predictable, less obedient, and more alive to enable you to build counter-narratives and go against the tide with your unique and imperfect voice.
Dates:
April 11th, 10am. In Person. Bored Peach Club.
The Workshop
This workshop is an invitation to disrupt the aesthetic status quo, looking at Glitch Art as a method of thinking and making. Starting from classical subjects such as the human body and portraiture, you will explore how fractured and anomalous digital systems behaviours can become opportunities to question standards of beauty, representation and control.
The Details
The workshop focuses primarily on Databending as a starting point, and as a critical and practical technique. Participants will learn how to intentionally corrupt files, misuse software and formats, and disrupt digital workflows to generate unexpected visual outcomes, putting machines under pressure, forcing them to complete tasks they were not programmed for. Brief introductions to AI-based processes will be included as unstable systems open to manipulation and experimentation.
We'll hack and break languages and codes to see what's beyond the average standards of uses. The aim is simple and uncomfortable: doing the wrong things the right way. Through guided experimentation, participants will repurpose mistakes, treating failure as a starting point. We'll approach this practice as digital explorers of new lands. Glitches will be used to distort the body, fracture identity, and destabilise familiar visual codes, opening space for ambiguous, complex and unsettling forms of beauty.
The workshop encourages participants to work from their previous knowledge and own artistic practices, while also pushing them toward unfamiliar, critical media strategies. Themes of imperfection, inclusivity and non-normative aesthetics run throughout the sessions, grounded in hands-on practice rather than theory-heavy definitions. This is not about making the weird cool. It is about making art less predictable, less obedient, and more alive to enable you to build counter-narratives and go against the tide with your unique and imperfect voice.
Dates:
April 11th, 10am. In Person. Bored Peach Club.
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