!!Con West 2019 - VJ Um Amel: Glitch Nuggets of Resistance!

Presented at !!Con West 2019 - http://bangbangcon.com/west/ This talk introduces a concept of glitch, or error/failure, which also serves as an entry point for activists, by drawing on my book project titled Glitch Resistance: the Arab Uprisings, Social Media, and the Virtual Body Politic. If glitch does violence to the surface of the image, it also enables us to see more, by questioning the source, revealing the material support of the digital ether, and suggesting how images are recomposed in circulation. I will demonstrate how to apply this theory of the glitch onto an aesthetics of abstraction by drawing on live performances, installation, and digital arts.