Sampling the Glitch Spectrum: Exploring the Architecture of Digital Media

An empirical record of glitch practice is portrayed in this pictorial. In wandering through the information environments of digital files, researchers can discover unexpected artifacts through experimental interactions. The production of these images span about seven years and range across various digital media, such as photography, video footage, 3D renders, and gaming. This work expands the concept of organic architecture to the realm of the digital medium. Inspired by nature, analogies from physical phenomena and scientific principles are used to inform the research-creation. In doing so, glitch experiments in digital files enable a co-creativity with technology which reveal their underlying structures and thereby produce a spectrum of expression. Often, uncanny resemblance to natural terrains manifest, indicating a connection through possibilities of configuration, or entropy.