"Continuing with this thought, we might picture the glitch artist to be an explorer. "Exploration is the act of searching or traveling a terrain (including space) for the purpose of the discovery of resources or information."* We are referring here primarily to physical space. "The term may also be used metaphorically, for example persons may speak of exploring the internet, sexuality, etc. In scientific research, exploration is one of three purposes of empirical research (the other two being description and explanation). Exploration is the attempt to develop an initial, rough understanding of some phenomenon."* In all these ways the glitch artist is like an explorer." Nick Briz "This art practice is our journey. We are the digital travelers. We go strenuously in search of glitches, of noise, of experience. We make interesting things to happen. We have been strangers in a strange land. The soul of our journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as we please. The aim of our traveling is to enhance imagination over reality, and instead of seeing how things are, we want to make them as we wish them to be. Let us go abroad to a distant landscape. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. Failure is an option, we need its intrinsic potentialities and qualities. In art and exploration failure is an option. We are not seeking for something that we have lost, we search for the unknown and the attainment brings to us greater happiness than the quest. We are curious men looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of digital nature, trying to know what’s going on. We define our art practice as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration. Equipped with our media, we explore the digital universe around us and we call our adventure Glitch Art. The human race is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration."
The video was presented at the NY Media Center and projected on the Manhattan Bridge in New York.
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