GLITCH: The Beauty of Malfunction

Propeller invites artists working in all media to participate in the exhibition, GLITCH: The Beauty of Malfunction.

Glitch is a↾ault in a system, a swerve in a flow of data, a de ion from the script.
Glitch is also an approach to art and music, orchestrating the clicks and buzzes of the systems of production themselves In the output, there is a momentary overl⪪p of noise and signal a vital skew, vitality askew – the emancipation of noise…

 

Extending John Cage’s aesthetics of “non-intention,” the glitch artist works with the tics, flourishes, and hesitations of media and mediation. Digital and electronic media provide built-in capacities for blunder, of course, but there are glitches in material and analog systems as well: a finger in the frame, happy/unhappy accidents, spoiled negatives, miscalculations (of resources, of timing), and general system breakdowns. Emerging from the interface, glitch makes of itself an indeterminate determination, an artefact of artefaction.

 

This is a call for anything that escaped your notice until it was too late.
 
But then became itself, speaking in its own voice in spite of the noise. 
 

All media will be considered, as long as the work was generated by glitch.

This is a call for anything that escaped your notice until it was too late.

But then became itself, speaking in its own voice in spite of the noise. 

All media will be considered, as long as the work was generated by glitch. 



DETAILS:
 


Exhibition Dates: August 27 - ­September 7, 2014



Submission requirements:
Name, address, email, phone #, cv, Artist Statement
1 - 7 images per submission

Video links will be accepted

Description of submitted image

Value of work in CAD


Submission fee:
$35 CAD - 1st Image
$20.00 CAD - per additional image
(submission fees are non­refundable)

How to submit:


Submissions will be accepted online at HuutaArt - http://huutaart.com/opencalls/glitch - or at Propeller Gallery.


Submissions must arrive before 6 p.m. Wednesday, August 20, 2014.



Send your submission on CD or DVD with the all the above submission requirements, and include the submission fee in a cheque made out to PROPELLER CENTRE FOR THE VISUAL ARTS to:

GLITCH @ Propeller
c/o Arianne DiNardo
984 Queen Street West

Toronto, ON, Canada

M6J 1H1



1-416-504-7142

[email protected]

* Incomplete submission will be disqualified.