glitch art

English

Noun

glitch art (countable and uncountable, plural glitch arts)

1. The practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.
   • 2016, Michael Betancourt, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 72:

     The Modernist theoretical framework that argues the appearance of glitch forms in “glitch art” is an inherently critical activity originates with claims that technical failures of all types reveal the material foundations alluding to capitalist productive processes.

Further reading

• glitch art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia