It’s no Animal Being Dicks, but the newly reborn Catscan Tumblr is just grand. Even though cats are assholes, here they are, being useful and making art. Just by plopping down on a scanner and smooshing themselves about, these clawed fur bags are creating dynamic, distorted digital images of themselves. Polycythemiac paws. Glitchy heads. Art!!!
Swiss artist Andy Denzler’s voyeuristic paintings look like home movie stills, crinkled by VHS tracking static. Yes, video tapes. Remember those? His most recent body of work leans away from his signature monochrome seaside abstractions and features lots of ladies. Less anonymous silhouettes. More bangs and bras. “Surface,” Andy Denzler, May 18 – Jul 2, Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC
Long Live the Glitchy New Flesh
Belgian artist Nicolas Provost mangles horror film scenes into bits in his video work Long Live the New Flesh. Yup, that’s a Videodrome reference and you can see that and The Shining washed over with crunchy radiant glitches in the clips below. Read more »
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 »
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