Justin Partain_Multimedia 3 & 4

 

Raul Zaritsky, Jamie Fenton, and Dick Ainsworth


These three artists created the now classic glitch video "Digital TV Dinner" (1978) that used the Bally video game console system.

The video was made by striking the $300 Bally video game console with a fist or fingers while it is trying to write the menu and recording the results.

Check out the video below. It’s truly a classic piece of Glitch Art.

Michael Betancourt

In Betancourt's hands, data moshing becomes a form of cultural resistance. Instead of utilizing the smooth, illusionistic motion of digital cinema, which you would typically see in a commercial movie theater, he deliberately pulls apart the codes and exploits its errors to deconstruct the movies and show us how they do their tricks. He pulls apart the narrative tropes of Sci-Fi at the same time that he pulls apart the pictures, pixel by pixel, creating a radically open form that resists the hypnotic myth-making of Hollywood