GLI.TC/H 2112 consists of four participatory "threads". These threads will facilitate experimentation/conversation during the day and share "outputs" in the evenings.
HIGH CONCEPT LABS: 1401 W. Wabansia Chicago IL, 60642
TRITRIANGLE: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
TGFKAHD: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622
TRITRIANGLE Open for viewing artworks
TFFKAHD Open for viewing artworks
▄┘1PM - 2PM; DOORS/PORTS OPEN HIGH CONCEPT LABS
Swing by a bit early, say "hello world!" IRL :)
▄┘2PM - 4PM; GLI.TC/H INTRODUCTION HIGH CONCEPT LABS
GLI.TC/H over-view && outlining festival strategies.
Facilitated by: Nick Briz, Rosa Menkman, jon.satrom
█┘4PM - 5PM; WORKING GROUP REPORT: G[LOSSARY] HIGH CONCEPT LABS
The meaning of words and their definitions are like quantum states. Uncertainty, duality, and entanglement are terms that can be applied to the complexities of the language we use to describe Glitch and related cultural practices.
But what do these terms actually mean? Where do they come from? How do these terms function in the context of the practice and its perception beyond the community? How have their meanings changed over time? Phillip Stearns will present outputs from the WorkingGroup G[LOSSARY] as it aims for a comprehensive, continually refreshed, lexicon that can exist as a fluid catalog of thought concerning Glitch.
▄┘5PM - 7PM; POTLUCK : SOURCE/FOOD SHAREHIGH CONCEPT LABS
Bring your favorite dish to share with folks. Open source it and bring the recipe!
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▄┘8PM - 10PM; PANEL: SABOTAGE! The _ in the Machine: Bending our Ghosts into Wooden Shoes TRITRIANGLE
Glitches are embedded within systems which themselves are currently entangled in the world. Of course these systems have their own technologies. But they also have their own politics, laws, economics, histories, memories, and futures. Glitch artists are found playing (uncritically) at the receiving end of these systems, modulating what they have received and placing their works gently back into the stream to dance further on down. But what happens when glitch artists purposefully modulated their glitches with the intention of sending them critically back up-stream, back into the entangled systems which made such glitches possible? What short-curcuited explosions might be triggered? Where might such explosions lead?
Curt Cloninger will talk about his critique of the "new aesthetic," about William Pope L.'s "Black Factory," about Situationist detournement, about institutional critique.
Nick Briz will talk about the relationship between law, open source, proprietary compression codices, and his own work (including the underlying critical ethics of http://nickbriz.com/thenewaesthetic/ ).
▄┘10PM - 1AM; EVERYBODY VJ! TRITRIANGLE
Open ports abound! Bring a laptop, a beamer/projector (we’ll have a few on rotation), or other visual output device. Abandonware, artwarez, captured errors, feeds, funware, GIFs, glitches, necroware, and TXTdocs are all welcome! During Everybody VJ you are encouraged to show how to most effectively use mundane softwares or feature your home-spun warez! Project your projects!
Everybody VJ originated as a “VJ mega-jam module” organized by Amy Alexander (VJ ÜberGeek) for the 2004 README Software Art Festival/Dorkbot City Camp in Århus Denmark, described as: “More than fifteen people doing strange VJ things with software - all at the same time.”
To be a VJ and perform on Thursday night (11PM - 1AM), please post your name or handle on the Everybody VJ WorkingGroup here. If you can bring a projector, that would be great!
▄┘9AM - 12PM; AM THREADS: DNMw3rkstati0n, DeFunct, glitch•••cultures, ouLANGltchpo HIGH CONCEPT LABS
▄┘12PM - 3PM;
PANEL:ViewSource/SourceView
HIGH CONCEPT LABS
Glitch Communities rely heavily on DIY software and software hacks. Again, in 2012 a lot of image codec protocols have seen the light of glitch. This Panel will feature the work of two frontrunning codec-/-pixelsort magicians. Paul Hertz has written a number of pixel sorting and algorithmic artwares. He will be sharing GlitchSort, which has been employed in the glitchuverse. Ted Davis aka FFD8 loves dissecting the heads and bodies of JPEGS. His tool HEADer_REMIX allows others to play with and learn from his scientific and artistic experiments. In this session, he will be sharing his "hexplorations".
For a growing list of existing wares check the GLI.TC/H wiki.
▄┘3PM - 5PM;
PM THREADS:
DNMw3rkstati0n,
DeFunct,
glitch•••cultures,
ouLANGltchpo
HIGH CONCEPT LABS
▄┘4PM - 6PM;
PM THREAD
DeFunct TGFKAHD
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▄┘8PM - 9PM; PANEL: magnify && parse: D1THER_DØØM (mayan new media + dither_fetish + glitter gloom) TRITRIANGLE
Shawné Michaelain Holloway, Kevin Carey, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Patrick Quinn represent # D1THER_DØØM -- dirty new media’s post-glitch, ende tymes aware, angry stepchild. Like their predecessors, all D1THER_DØØM provocateurs seek to maintain an enthusiastic practice of radical openness, critical thinking, counter/cyber/queer/goth/punk/alt/geek -cultures && aesthetics/experimentation/critical -scholarship.
What D1THER_DØØM adds to the mix is a wholehearted adoption of death + sex cultures vis-a-vis a collective sense of blind, nihilistic joy; thanks to strong social support D1THER_DØØM has been reviewed as “rich, challenging, && alluring.” magnify && parse: D1THER_DØØM (mayan new media + dither_fetish + glitter gloom) tracks the metamorphosis of the D1THER_DØØM movement beginning with mayan new media &&thru the emergence of dither_fetish + glittergloom to present the newest incarnation of the realities wherein expecting the unexpected (death_data) &&relinquishing/exercising control (sex_data) over information/data/art making is intoxicatingly seductive.
▄┘9PM - 10PM; PANEL: Gridworks/Textworks TRITRIANGLE
AlphabeNt Facilitated by: hellocatfood
Antonio Roberts' journey into glitches and their relationship to language started with the Dataface font-hacking project in 2010, the result of which is downloadable as a font from the Open Font Library. Using Daniel Purvis and Drew Taylor's project AlphabeNt project as a launching point, Antonio Roberts will be discussing the relationship between computer language and human language, and how this relationship can be strengthened through mutation and curation, instead of deletion.
ASCIIboundaries: ASCII art potential towards boundaries between machine/human languages
Facilitated by: A.Bill Miller
ASCII art represents a form of visual communication that examines the boundaries between a variety of languages. With machine logic, it represents a transformation from a human language system to a binary one. ASCII is a charset that one might use when communicating directly with a machine through programming. In this way it could be considered a way of talking to machines. However, ASCII is perhaps not necessarily either/or - it isn't a purely mechanic or human language - its one of transposition between the two spaces. When used to generate images through the tonal scale created by the charset, ASCII enters the realm of images. As such it begins to speak a visual language, but this also is not exacting or direct - it is a transformation where text is image. In all of these cases, communication becomes more abstract - the words aren't meant as words, the images are made up of characters that were once references to images themselves. The boundary grays and grays further when ASCII is used to generate images and forms that are not representative or illusionistic. Here the communication is about formal elements and relationships - where the machine/human/visual language becomes so entwined it is inseparable into constituent parts.
▄┘10PM - 1AM; THREAD OUTPUTS: artwork and outputs created in and generated from the the AM && PM THREADS will be exhibited TRITRIANGLE
█┐ 10PM - 11PM: NO_MEDIA TRITRIANGLE
WorkingGroup: No_Media
Proposed by Jason Soliday on the Working Groups: NO_MEDIA is a performance framework that goes from zero to zero! Participating performers will start from blank slates, build sets from scratch. No preparation allowed. Zeroed out knobs. No strings on your guitar. No presets. Everything done in realtime from beginning to end. Everything that happens exists only in and during the performance :: “Raw Real Time”. After ~10 minutes you will delete all assets. It happens.... and … then it’s gone...
█┐ 11PM - 12PM: [Dirty] New-Media Open Robin 5x5 TRITRIANGLE
Facilitated by: Dave Musgrave, William Robertson, & Jon Satrom
Gleaned from the connexxxions && collaboration forum on the WorkingGroups, The [Dirty] New-Media Open Robin is an open structure for glitch-driven realtime audio/video micro-performances. GLI.TC/H will facilitate three slots of ~5 minutes for back-to-back performances in a series of 5.
The format is inspired by the [Dirty] New-Media Round Robin curated by Nick Briz on OCT 16, 2012; inspired by the Baltimore music scene, where performers set-up at the same time around the perimeter of the venue and perform short sets one after another (around the circle) passing the baton (or cables in this case) from one to the next. The Open Robin breaks the circle to allow for new connexxxions && collaborations.
▄┘9AM - 12PM; AM THREADS: DNMw3rkstati0n DeFunct glitch•••cultures ouLANGltchpo HIGH CONCEPT LABS
▄┘12PM - 1:30PM; Experiencing the Glitch: Precursors, Methodologies, and Meaning-Making HIGH CONCEPT LABS
Steven Hammer, Chris Lindgren, Alex Myers will explore alternate locations of glitch, from its existence in organic and non-digital spaces, to historical placement of the glitch in the interrupt, to locating the glitch in terms of human understanding and meaning-making. Each speaker proposes new approaches and methods to understanding the world through the glitch in lived spaces.
Meatspace Glitch: Exploring Pre-digital Glitch Art in Human Bodies
While glitch art's attachment to the digital seems inextricable, speaker 1 argues that glitch art precedes the electric age. He will explore the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Aleksei Kruchenykh to reveal their respective proto-glitch practices: Coleridge disrupted his own bioelectrical systems via opium, and Kruchenykh interrupted the flow of linguistic input/output in creating his transrational language, Zaum. Speaker 1 will conclude that pushing beyond the digital allows glitch to move beyond practice/genre, into the realm of theoretical lens/methodology.
De-Boxing Pandora: Moving Toward a Glitch Methodology
Speaker 2 will position glitch as a methodology by comparing the period in computing when the interrupt method overtook batch processing (late 1950s) with John Law's recent move to 'make a mess of methods' (2004) in the social sciences. While Law seeks methods that focus on the unstable complexities of reality, computer scientist Edward Dijkstra claimed that such instability proffered by the interrupt created a 'Box of Pandora,' or 'beast', that computer science needed to tame. Accordingly, speaker 2 will leverage Law to counter the dominant view in both sciences, which attempt to tame the interrupt, effacing the role of glitch in the social.
Writing Things We Can No Longer Read
Speaker 3 will examine how breaking rule-based game spaces disrupts player expectations and concepts through a discussion of his own artgames, which utilize the beauty of apophenia. Apophenia, the tendency to find meaning in noise, is a result of the human need to transcribe significance onto all human experiences. This writing increases, until it reaches a critical mass of meaninglessness (glitch); then, it finds its way back into the realm of meaning again via an aesthetic evaluation of glitch. Discussing his personal apopheniac impulsions in the games, he will map out relations between both contemporary glitch art and game design.
▄┘1:30PM - 3PM; Glitches in Things and the 'Friendly Medium'HIGH CONCEPT LABS
In his essay Viruses of the Mind (1991) Richard Dawkins conflates genes and memes (ideas) with computer viruses, stating that 'parasitic replicators' demand certain qualities of 'a friendly medium' in order to reproduce, or be reproduced. This presentation by: Daniel Rourke begins by taking Dawkins' proposition of a 'friendly medium' seriously, following the logic of (un)friendliness through a brief history of media/medium-based artworks. Was it generous of Marcel Duchamp's, Large Glass to smash in transit? Do art historians take advantage of a painting's kindness when they peer with x-rays beneath its outer layers? Should video compression codecs thank Takeshi Murata for treating them with such contempt?
▄┘3PM - 5PM;
PM THREADS:
DNMw3rkstati0n,
DeFunct,
glitch•••cultures,
ouLANGltchpo
HIGH CONCEPT LABS
▄┘4PM - 6PM;
PM THREAD
DeFunct TGFKAHD
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▄┘7PM - 8PM; PIZZA PARTY! TRITRIANGLE
▄┘8PM - 9PM; THREAD OUTPUT: DNMw3rkstati0n Exhibition & Performances TRITRIANGLE
▄┘10PM - 1AM; THREAD OUTPUT: DeFunct Installation Exhibition & Performances TGFKAHD
▄┘10PM - 1AM; THREAD OUTPUT: ouLANGltchpo Exhibition & Situation(s) TGFKAHD
▄┘11AM - 1PM; POTLUCK BRUNCH: SOURCE/FOOD SHAREHIGH CONCEPT LABS
Bring your favorite (egg?) dish to share with folks. Open source it and bring the recipe!
rumors of a "Name That Glitch" Game!
█┘1PM - 2PM WORKING GROUP REPORT: SUPRACONDUCTOR HIGH CONCEPT LABS
Supraconductivity stands for the experimentation and exploration of telepresent communication and all its glitches. With as aim to explore its creative potential above and beyond the prescribed, singular purpose of channeling. Qualities such as accretion, latency and feedback become performative / generative artifacts and the physicality of the network become key medium specificities. Multiple Supraconductors were facilitated by: Kyoung Kim, Edwina Portocarrero, and Ryan ⊥ Dunn on the WorkingGroups.
▄┘2PM - 4PM; GLI.TC/H DECOMPRESSION & OVERFLOW HIGH CONCEPT LABS
GLI.TC/H 2112 consists of four participatory "threads". These threads will facilitate experimentation/conversation during the day and share "outputs" in the evenings.
You can read the descriptions below as well as join the conversations leading up to these threads on the WorkingGroups.
Some of the threads are more 'hands on' practice-based collaborations (DNMw3rkstati0n && DeFunct/ReFunct), while others are more 'round table' discussion/presentation type conversations (ouLANGltchpo && glitch•••cultures). In addition to the threads (running DEC 6-9 in Chicago), two ongoing GLI.TC/H threads: 'SUPRACONDUCTOR' and 'G[LOSSARY]' will present their ongoing research during GLI.TC/H.
The output of the threads will fuel the performances & exhibitions on Friday & Saturday.█┐DNMw3rkstati0n
Facilitated by: jonCates,
Jake Elliott,
Eric Fleischauer, Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood), Shawne Holloway, Rick Silva, and stAllio!
WorkingGroup: dnmw3rkstati0n
WorkingGroup: Open Scene
http://dirtynewmedia.tumblr.com/archive && Tumblr tag "Dirty New Media"
An open workstation with the intention of engaging any && all willing participants in artmaking technologies that are free to (ab)use and share. Participants are invited to bring their own computers to receive short tutorials on classic beginning (.gif art, databending), intermediate (soundhack + composing w/audacity) && advanced (datamoshing, vector synthesis w/pure data) dirtynewmedia techniques. newly recruited dirtynewmedia artists will leave with fresh artworks and the seeds for skills to create sustainable artistic habits that are at once exciting and provocative. at the end of gli.tc/h fest, all work created at the DNMw3rkstati0n:: will be collected && displayed. We invite everyone to come && go + sit && work as they please throughout the festivities to workshop any && all projects.
█┐ouLANGltchpo
Facilitated by: Curt Cloninger, Daniel Temkin
WorkingGroup: ouLANGltchpo
BRING: systems for recording, encoding, and constraining
ouLANGltchpo = workshop of potential glitch language
The goal of the workshop is to invent (and/or collate) constraints and systems which lead to the development of potential glitch language(s). These constraints and systems could take the form of written instructions, downloadable softwares, circuit bending diagrams, garment patterns, knitting stitches, contemplative exercises/practices, and/or whatever else. It could all be downloadable as one zip file containing pdf documents and executable apps, source code files, etc.
{Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle: workshop of potential literature) is known for the experimental writing of its members, but really they didn't meet together in order to write. They met to invent constraints. Following their constraints, one could then proceed to write, but their goal was to invent constraint systems which led to new forms of literature rather than produce finished works of experimental literature.}
█┐DeFunct/ReFunct / Hardware hacking and recycling strategies in an age of technological obsolescence
Facilitated by: Benjamin Gaulon (recyclism)
WorkingGroup: reclaiming-media
BRING: Bring obsolete technology & oddities
"ReFunct Media" is a multimedia installation that (re)uses numerous "obsolete" electronic devices (digital and analogue media players and receivers). Those devices are hacked, misused and combined into a large and complex chain of elements. To use an ecological analogy they "interact" in different symbiotic relationships such as mutualism, parasitism and commensalism.
BRING: preferred writing device: computer, teletype, pencil, and/or typing-writer
As new media practitioners and scholars, Glitch is a natural extension of our interests in the digital material of our contemporary lives and studio practices. The topic is geared towards accessibility, diversity, participation, and also articulation of tropes and visual constructs borrowed and repurposed. Goals for this thread include: discourse with documentation around access and communication, feminism, education. Considering the (re)representation of sexuality and gender tropes/traditions, in visual arts (reflections) and participation in dominant paradigms/visual arts culture/community (presence).
█┐ 0P3NR3P0
The GLI.TC/H 0P3NR3P0 is an open/public repository of glitch art worx. It’s a modular art&&archive project.
To participate, simply submit your work here.
Submissions will be featured on Saturday night as a part of the exhibition(s) at TriTriangle.