Error Aesthetics: Glitch Art as a Nexus of Creation and Theory

Glitch art represents a critical intersection between artistic practice and academic inquiry, challenging established paradigms of digital aesthetics, authorship, and the concept of error. As a disruptive force within digital culture, glitch art offers unique opportunities to explore innovative methodologies in art production, media and design while questioning the cultural, social, and philosophical implications of technological systems and their failures. It opens pathways for examining how meaning is constructed around glitches by diverse actors, including those producing media content, artists, cultural commentators, and general users. These interpretations not only reflect the complexities of our digital age but also reveal the potential of glitches to deconstruct and reimagine the narratives embedded in contemporary technologies.

In this DEL in Between, Claudia Garza, Chair of the Digital Arts Academic Department (Western Region) for the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, will introduce this theoretical framework and present examples from her own creative practice and teaching.

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