LIMINAL presents GLITCH, our second digital series of writing, art and more.
Staring at a computer screen, tracing lines, transmissions, malfunctions: a figure disappears and reappears, a glitch in time, visual errors, a moment of lag, a screen skips, a new model materialises. Staring at the computer screen, your face stops and starts. I describe my lunch but you can’t hear me, then: the spinning wheel of death.
In 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter burned to pieces on arrival. The NASA review board found the fault was a mixup between pound-seconds and newton-seconds in the calculations controlling the vehicle's thrusters. Human error.
Open terminal (oxymoron):
ping google.com
Request timeout for icmp_seq 52203
Request timeout for icmp_seq 52204
Request timeout for icmp_seq 52205
Turn the router off. Get a glass of water. Turn the router on.
We live amid unpredictability; tears in the fabric increasingly reveal themselves. Can we take a glitch and re-fashion it to suit the mood? Can a glitch be a sign of disaffection, of continued existence, of intimacy?
This series features work by Ava Amedi, Cecile Richard, Erica Lange, Hassan Abul, Helena Dong, Jon Tjhia, Michael Sun, Pey Chi & Shastra Deo.
Glitch has been edited by Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein & Leah Jing McIntosh, with design by Anny Luo.
