In my exploration of glitch as an art form, I used TextEdit to break the image file and create variations in saturation, hue, and value. After glitching the image numerous times, I ended up with a vibrant green picture. While researching, I stumbled upon a post about video game players experiencing green or purple glitches. The digital glitches were a product of an error in YCbCr, a family of color spaces used as a part of the color image pipeline in video and digital photography systems. Furthermore, YPbPr is used with analog images and YCbCr with digital images. The two color systems differ due to the values being gamma corrected or not, marking a distinction between analog and digital.
In Glitch Feminism, the glitch “aims to make abstract again that which has been forced into an uncomfortable and ill-defined material: the body”. The idea of deconstructing the body can also be seen in Jenny Odell’s work as she connected the data collection of social media to the commodification of identity. Our identities are defined for legibility and processed as a unit of capital. The experimentation of glitch can be used to break binary constructs of analog and digital, or physical and abstract.
