On October 8th, Best Buy on Broadway will be hosting a glitch art installation, they just don’t know it yet. For one night only, Borna Sammak, the artist who curated himself into the New Museum, is planning to take over every television in the electronics store for his video display: high-definition video clips deconstructed, then “mashed and violently reconstituted in a new, hi-resolution world.” The artist’s “Best Buy” installation and reception will take place at 622 Broadway from 7 PM to 9PM, or until the blue shirts call the cops. Read more »
Highlighting the upside of computer errors and broken displays, “Glitch: Designing Imperfection” features 132 pages of colorfully broken bits from dozen of artists. Published by Mark Batty for a September release, the book is available at the preorder price of $22. Preview pages from the book of corrupted images after the jump. Read more »


























