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MENTAL MODEL · M2180

Glitch Art

Glitch Art
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Creating art by intentionally corrupting digital data or physical devices, utilizing the resulting visual errors (such as screen artifacts, mosaics, color distortion) as a medium.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Reduce cognitive load

Examining the value of errors. It challenges the traditional notion that 'perfection is beauty', arguing that machine crashes, errors, and accidents contain a unique, unpredictable aesthetic. Errors are not waste; they are material.

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Glitch art actively introduces errors, corruption, and distortion into digital systems, treating the 'glitch' itself as an aesthetic resource. It reveals the materiality of technological media and challenges the illusion of perfect reproduction.

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