Call for Artists: "Glitch Art Is Dead: Minneapolis"
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 12:29PM
Via a December 20 e-newsletter from Gamut Gallery:
Hosted by Gamut Gallery, the Minneapolis iteration of this project will feature around 30 national and international artists and will run from March 11 until April 1, 2017. It will also include a two-day convention of workshops, presentations and debates about Glitch Art. The run will be capped off with a night of performances by local noise musicians curated by Alex Kmett, with additional performances from local video jockeys.
Glitch Art is an artistic phenomenon of internet culture. Although its roots go back into the 20th century, it is a nascent artistic movement with a far flung, but significantly sized community. The Glitch Art is Dead: Minneapolis exhibition aims to deny its title, introducing the viewer to a wide spectrum of artwork that shows the vitality of the medium.
A glitch (in a visual and graphic sense) is a malfunction of a digital system, a computer error which can turn images into bizarre and colorful compositions. Images can be turned into sound or opened as word documents. You can change bytes in the code of a file to twist and distort it or you can strap magnets to a VCR and see what happens when you press play.
The Glitch community is centered around the Glitch Collective with a Facebook following of about 53,000 people. It is the initiative's goal to foster a deep sense of community by bringing these digital denizens into the real world by exhibiting emerging artists with established ones and to connect local artists with those based nationally and internationally. To this end, the curators are arranging for several artists from the UK, France, Poland, Croatia and across the U.S. to attend the exhibition and present at the convention.
Curated and organized by Aleksandra Pieńkosz (Krakow), Zoe Stawska (Warsaw) and Miles Taylor (Minneapolis), the initiative began in 2015 with the Glitch Art is Deadexhibition in Kraków. The exhibit was hosted by Teatr Barakah in Krakow, Poland and ran from September until mid-October. It featured a day of workshops run by Aleksandra Pieńkosz and Tomasz Sulej, a respected and knowledgeable authority in the Glitch community, who will be reprising his role for the Minneapolis convention. An exhibition book, edited by Pienkosz and published by Hub Wydawniczy Rozdzielczość Chleba, features artists from the first exhibition as well as discourse on glitch art and is set to be released on December 17th.
An open call for artists will run from December 17 until January 19 with submission details here.
ADDITIONAL DATES
Opening Reception // Friday, March 11th, 7-11pm
Featuring live musical and VJ performances
$5
Glitch Art Convention // Saturday, March 18 - Sunday, March 19
Closing Reception // Friday, March 31
A night of noise music curated by Alex Kmett
HOSTED BY
Gamut Gallery
717 S 10th St
Minneapolis, MN 55404
SPONSORED BY
Springboard for the Arts
308 Prince Street, Suite 270
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
CONTACT
https://www.facebook.com/glitchartisdeadpl
glitch.art.is.dead@gmail.com
Local organizer: Miles Taylor, 507.829.3196
MORE INFORMATION
Glitch Artists Collective: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Glitchcollective/
Curated Glitch Artists Collective Page: https://www.facebook.com/glitchartistscollective
Tutorials: http://www.glitchet.com/resources
