This video was made specifically for GLITCH IS THE SOUL IN THE MACHINE, the iDEAs Exhibition at the 2020 iDMAa Broken Media Conference.
People are strange things. Oh, the absurdity! Bold & brazen phantoms festooned in withering skins, assured the music will last forever! We dance, dance, dance—boogie until Thanatos (Death) snatches us right up out of our shoes. I really like people. I want to make art and tell stories as fascinating as they are.
“Battle of the Glitches” is a piece of broken media art. It stems from a vintage educational film dramatizing a seemingly “broken relationship.” It has been artificially colored, layered into a he-said-she-said overlap, and datamoshed to emphasize the raw emotion and discord between the feuding couple.
