DOM BARRA - ALTERED_DATA

Imperfectionist. Multimedia artist. Digital atypical. White Page Gallery/s Firestarter. If you see a glitch, think of me.



ALTERED_DATA'S WHITE PAGE GALLERY



White Page Gallery/s is a decentralized and distributed art network born in June 2019: it is an online network for artistic sharing composed of artists, curators, academies, festivals and cultural operators who host independently on their website and without the aim of profit art projects made and curated by others.


Read more on Medium for White Page Gallery/s - Art curating and human values


Altered_Data's WPG is an open space for counter narratives and experimental works. I am open to all sorts of proposals, everyone has an unique voice and I will be happy to help you in telling that story giving space to your poetry on my WPG. If you are an artists or a curator or both and you would like to exhibit your projects outside your own space, you are more than welcome to use this space. Get in touch with me and lets see what we can do. You on my website are very welcome! Proposals are free but acceptance is not mandatory, of course.


#glitchart, #netart, #internetart, #databending, #conceptualart, #newmediaart, #dirtynewmedia, #zombiemedia, #remix, #memes #storytelling, #newaesthetic, #divineaesthetic.


I suggest that every artists will do the same, create a White Page Gallery on your website and host other people's works.


#solidarity #inclusivity #generosity #hospitality

#novanity #nohierarchies #nogatekeepers


WHITE PAGE GALLERY/S IS ONLINE AT HTTP://WWW.WHITEPAGEGALLERY.NETWORK




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DE_COMPOSE - IMAGE ELEMENT/Z


GLITCH IS THE EVENT. PIXEL IS THE ELEMENT



From the 14th to the 25th of Septempber 2020 in Rome and online took place a degree masterclass at Rome University of Fine Art (RUFA).

CONCEPT OF THE MASTERCLASS: We are creative in the digital age and files are everything to us. Regardless of whether they contain data for a single pixel or an entire episode of our favorite series on Netflix, our creations could never exist without digital formats. Studying the behavior of these data when it is “stimulated” through some techniques such as databending or pixelsorting is part of the work of glitch art artists. The manipulation of the data saved, organized and stored in the files allows us to discover the infinite possibilities at our disposal to de-compose an image by altering the structure and the values ​​that will then take shape thanks to the pixels and the value the carry.

STUDENTS @ WORK: Whether we are film makers or a graphic designers, the glitch is an event that sooner or later will happen as an unexpected event on one of our many displays. It is essential to find out how to transform a "failure" into a creative opportunity outside the boxed standard of use by artistically enhancing these out of control pixels and approach the new media with an unconventional mindest.
Our goal will be that. Implement the glitch in the technique, creative process and storytelling of each student. The focus of the glitch art and dirty new media masterclass is precisely the minimum conventional unit of measurement and composition of an image, the pixel.
The pixel will be the supreme superstar of the students's projects. It will be the object of study but also the subject of your creations to be interpreted in a fantastic or conceptual key, and obviously the composition element. Students will each have to create a project (collage, animation, digital sculpture, short film, poster, web page, prototype, photography, illustration ...) that will be able to tell, represent, communicate, implement, adapt the pixel by raising its artistic qualities through glitch art with respect to their subject of study and reference media, but above all in line with their peculiar poetics and personal style.



🦄 THE SHOW IS PART OF LINEA FESTIVAL 2020, A PROJECT BY APULIA CENTER FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY. https://www.lineafestival.it/

🙏 I LIKE TO THANK CATERINA TOMEO, ROME UNIVERSITY OF FINE ART FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. https://www.unirufa.it/en/

⚗️ THANKS TO ALL OF THE STUDENTS PART OF THE MASTERCLASS WHO HAVE EMBRACED THE CHAOS AND CREATED BEAUTY OUT OF FAILURE!


STUDENTS ON SHOW ARE:

- ALESSIO CHAN
- NICOLA DONDIO
- BENEDETTA SIMEONI
- EMANUELE CAMILLI
- LISA ACABO
- EMMA SARTORI
- GINEVERA SEQUI
- GIACOMO BESCHI
- GIULIA KENDRA SERGENTE
- MASSIMILIANO MARCHIO

















ALESSIO HONG & NICOLA DONDIO

DEGREE: CINEMA

PROJECT: GLITCHBUSTERS


"In 2560 the world is no longer what we know. There is no death, there are no wars. There are no diseases. In the new digital society only one thing can break the balance. They are evil. They are unpredictable. They must be fought at all costs. They are GLITCHES."








BENEDETTA SIMEONI

DEGREE: INTERIOR DESIGN

PROJECT :

THE HAPPY DONOR
(AFTER MAGRITTE)

"I wanted to recreate a surreal situation of a dream, or nightmare. In which we find a dark room, with a moon and balloons, which represent the surreal, and a train track that takes you inside the painting. So for the first time it is the dream that comes into reality."








BENEDETTA SIMEONI

DEGREE: INTERIOR DESIGN

PROJECT :

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
(AFTER DALÌ)

"I wanted to represent a world that does not exist, without problems and where everyone is free to be anyone, without limits, and a security door, which cannot be crossed, to pass into reality, real life."








BENEDETTA SIMEONI

DEGREE: INTERIOR DESIGN

PROJECT :

THE FALSE MIRROR
(AFTER MAGRITTE)

"I reflected the eye on the floor, like two eyes looking at each other and trying to bring out their soul."








LISA ACABO & EMANUELE CAMILLI

DEGREE: COMPUTER ANIMATION

PROJECT : DATABREACHER

CLICK THIS TEXT TO DOWNLOAD THE APP GAME

"Data_Breacher_ is a 2D videogame born from the desire to get involved with aunknown software and new glitch art techniques just explored. It is a project that tries to bring glitch art and all its pop and derivations to an unusual and new medium suburban. In fact, the game shares the mechanics of the hugely popular Flappy Bird phenomenon mass culture with over 50 million downloads done as far back as 2014. Explore too elements from cyberpunk culture and computer jargon reworked in a graphic key with pixel art style. In fact, we are talking about a small bot that carries data packets inside a network and a system, avoiding firewalls and blocks. Whether it is a virus or not is to the imagination of those who play it."


EMMA SARTORI & GINEVRA SEQUI

DEGREE: CINEMA & GRAPHIC DESIGN

PROJECT :

CAOSMOSIS - Pixels like atoms


"From water, source of origin of life to the cosmos. If the nature we know and the universe around us are the result of the osmosis between atoms and molecules, so is the digital image with the pixel. The Glitch event is the new Big Bang of virtual reality."








GIACOMO BESCHI

DEGREE: CINEMA

PROJECT : AFTER DE KOONING









GIACOMO BESCHI

DEGREE: CINEMA

PROJECT : AFTER GUSTON









GIACOMO BESCHI

DEGREE: CINEMA

PROJECT : AFTER DE DOMINICIS









GIULIA KENDRA SERGENTE

DEGREE: CINEMA

PROJECT : ABSTRACT EYES

"I decided to work with glitches using my paintings, the idea for me was logical and natural, my works are colored and already naturally broken down and in my opinion they perfectly suited the type of work required in the masterclass. The design, static in itself, is brought to life by the glitch, revealing itself in intense colors and plays of light with the pixels. With the video of my choice I tried to take pictures as individually as possible over a period of time restricted (1 minute), I chose to vocalize on the details and on restricted portions of the image such as a close perspective of my main symbols, giving emphasis on burning eyes, nose and mouth."








GIULIA KENDRA SERGENTE

DEGREE: CINEMA

PROJECT : ABSTRACT EYES

"I decided to work with glitches using my paintings, the idea for me was logical and natural, my works are colored and already naturally broken down and in my opinion they perfectly suited the type of work required in the masterclass. The design, static in itself, is brought to life by the glitch, revealing itself in intense colors and plays of light with the pixels. With the video of my choice I tried to take pictures as individually as possible over a period of time restricted (1 minute), I chose to vocalize on the details and on restricted portions of the image such as a close perspective of my main symbols, giving emphasis on burning eyes, nose and mouth."








GIULIA KENDRA SERGENTE

DEGREE: CINEMA

PROJECT : ABSTRACT EYES

"I decided to work with glitches using my paintings, the idea for me was logical and natural, my works are colored and already naturally broken down and in my opinion they perfectly suited the type of work required in the masterclass. The design, static in itself, is brought to life by the glitch, revealing itself in intense colors and plays of light with the pixels. With the video of my choice I tried to take pictures as individually as possible over a period of time restricted (1 minute), I chose to vocalize on the details and on restricted portions of the image such as a close perspective of my main symbols, giving emphasis on burning eyes, nose and mouth."








MASSIMILIANO MARCHIO

DEGREE:INTERIOR DESIGN

PROJECT :

TIME IS OUT / FASTER AND SONS

"After numerous tampering with several files, I focused in particular on a mov file. Going to tamper several times through different software I was able to obtain a linear glitch that at the same time highlighted certain parts of the video file, causing the viewer's eye to be attracted to the video, especially those parts highlighted and surrounded by glitches. unique and never repeatable."







MASSIMILIANO MARCHIO

DEGREE:INTERIOR DESIGN

PROJECT :

TIME IS OUT / FASTER AND SONS

"After numerous tampering with several files, I focused in particular on a mov file. Going to tamper several times through different software I was able to obtain a linear glitch that at the same time highlighted certain parts of the video file, causing the viewer's eye to be attracted to the video, especially those parts highlighted and surrounded by glitches. unique and never repeatable."







MASSIMILIANO MARCHIO

DEGREE:INTERIOR DESIGN

PROJECT :

TIME IS OUT / FASTER AND SONS

"After numerous tampering with several files, I focused in particular on a mov file. Going to tamper several times through different software I was able to obtain a linear glitch that at the same time highlighted certain parts of the video file, causing the viewer's eye to be attracted to the video, especially those parts highlighted and surrounded by glitches. unique and never repeatable."







ALTERED_DATA'S WPG HOSTED SHOWS





2019


1 Jun 2019 - 31 Oct 2019 - composition 731872 | Rudy Paganini (forevermidi.com)

1 Nov 2019 - 1 Dec 2019 - Machine Renaissance | Digitonica

1 Dec 2019 - 31 Jan 2020 - Koonsthalle - Real Visual Luxury | Group Show


2020 ​


1 Feb 2020 - 29 Feb 2020 - Bipolar Mornings | Rino Petrozziello

1 Mar 2020 - 30 Sep 2020 - OUTBBBREAK - Art is viral | Group Show



ALTERED_DATA'S WPG PAST SHOWS



20-03-2020 | 02-10-2020


ØUTBBBREAK - ART IS VIRAL


A charity group show to crowdfund donation for organizations involved in the Coronavirus emergency.


Donations campaigns, Institutions and Charities supported by our show were: Brave Space Alliance EMERGENCY Rete del Dono Italia non profit Telefono Rosa - Pagina Ufficiale Maryland Food Bank Food Bank For New York City Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and others campaigns available via Gofundme and other crowdfunding platform.


Artists part of the show:

Sara Goodman, FEWSTR, Anna Utopia Giordano, Claudia Chirianni & Rino Petrozziello, Sara Bonaventura, Ángela Leyva, Daniel Temkin, Negin Ehtesabian & Patrick Lichty, Giulia, Elena Romenkova and Christian Munch, Paul Hertz, Sofia Crespo, Andrew Pouliot, Ian Keaveny, Martha Hipley, Luka Moncaleano & Fuori Visioni - Festival Arte Contemporanea, Michaël Systaime Borras, Andrea Roccioletti, Sabrina Rodriguez, Sreć, Heinz Schielmann, Yvana Samandova and Paola Pinna.


01-02-2020 | 29-02-2020


Bipolar Mornings
Rino Petrozziello


A selection of generative art and glitch art works, audio and video. Rino Petrozziello is an Italian multimedia artist and creative technologist. Rino says: "My works show a strong versatility thanks to the simultaneous use of several artistic languages ​​such as music, video, electronics and human computer interaction. Expressiveness, DIY attitude and innate passion for creating experimental artefacts come to light through the development of apps, music software and hardware, multimedia installations, websites and audio-visual performances."


https://rinopetrozziello.com/index.html


01-12-2019 | 31-01-2020


KOONSTHALLE
REAL VISUAL LUXURY


Co-curated by Domenico Barra and Karina Pálosi

Co-hosted by Unstable.Media's WPG and Altered_Data's WPG

"As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists." Jeff Koons

"Here we come, Jeff!" The Other Artists.

This is the the first co-hosted and co-curated show made in White Page Gallery/s.

The Koonsthalle - Real Visual Luxury is not a tribute, neither a celebration, of Jeff Koons and his works.

First of all, the show is an invitation to open a dialogue about the state of the art of the contemporary art world. A world going through a massive update totally influenced by the rise of digital media, above them all the internet, and the cultures springing and spreading from this shape-shifting scenario. A new context where we, digital and new media artists, are a big part of, influencing it with our works, practices, languages, aesthetics. Things are moving on. It is a slow process but it is happening. Digital and new media artists are important and relevant voices in the discourse of contemporary art. Jeff Koons can be seen as the metaphor of the rise and fall of the status quo of contemporary art that, like it or not, has influenced us some how. As stated by Jeff Koons, he always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. We are the other artists. Who better than us? The digital artists. The Koonsthalle will then also be a show about contemporary art from a perspective of digital artists working, learning, making in the context of the world wide web. This online exhibition wishes also to be a testimony of the many changements of the art world and the cultures related to art. We are moving towards a new era where the word contemporary itself is assuming a new meaning.

The Koonsthalle is a show. It is a process. It is happening! And it is happening online on the White Page Gallery/s hosted by Unstable.Media's WPG & Altered_Data's WPG.

Hosted by Altered_Data's WPG - ALICJA WROBLEWSKA - ANDREA PEDRAZZI - FAEZEH HEYDARI - FLORIAN KUHLMANN - HIROTSUGU AISU - INARI PORKKA - NOEMI CAPOCCIA - RENDERFRUIT - SIMONE CISARNI Hosted by Unstable.Media's WPG - AGNESE TONI - AKASHA - ALBERTO CUTERI - BORJAN ZAREVSKI - DOM BARRA - FOREVERMIDI.COM - IAN KEAVENY - JAWEK KWAKMAN - JOSE IRION NIETO - LAURA KARAM - MARIA CHIARA GAGLIARDI - http://thereisamajorprobleminaustralia.com/ - RONNIE S - SYSTAIME



01-11-2019 | 1-12-2019



Machine Renaissance
Digitonica



Digitonica about her works. “I have been making digital 3d art for about a year, and my new wish is to make digital collages based on my materials using my own art and photos. I always test new techniques. I am often inspired by old masters, one of my favorite is Hieronymus Bosch. I have some works in which I try to rethink historical pieces. It can be Renaissance (Machine Renaissance) or middle ages or even god theme (Cyber God). Also, I am really into Japanese art and I think that my own art is some kind of symbiosis of ancient art, Japanese madness and modern aesthetics in an ironic way. In music and in art I try to deconstruct familiar forms to rebuild them into something new. I also work with glitches because it makes some weird and wonderful transformations, helping us to see some objects in completely new ways. So my art is just a game, I play with different forms of the past, future and present and mix it. I don't want to show just "brave new world", cold, blue and refined, full of white buildings and white robots.”


https://taplink.cc/digitonica



01-06-2019 | 31-10-2019



composition 731872
Rudy Paganini (forevermidi.com)



An original SNES’ rom image had been deeply modified in its code and lead close to the point of non-executability, resulting eventually into a pure glitch generator. Creating abstract patterns endlessly, the program rushes in a romantic streben toward the infinite, beyond computations. Any form of audio or game logic had been lost in the process. The modified software went then executed through a console emulator, the video output recorded for the length of this video; no post editing alterations went applied, apart from a slight dimension resizing. Videogames’ modification is a practice adopted by digital artists and, for the most, gamers. On the art side, seminal is the work upon a Nintendo cartridge made by Cory Arcangel & Paper Rad for their Super Mario Movie (2005). Gamers too use to corrupt or modify roms to obtain almost unpredictable visual effects, and to experiment with playability.


https://forevermidi.com/ https://forevermidi.com/post/178388107602 https://twitter.com/rudypaganini


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