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The Instaglitch Project

The Instaglitch Project

Betancourt, Michael

Paperback

Individual Artists

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0979321522
ISBN13: 9780979321528
Publisher: Im Pressd
Published: Oct 31 2021
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book presents a selection of 52 full color images from Michael Betancourt's Instaglitch Project that exploited the aberrant and unheimlich results of image handling and processing by the Instagram photosharing app-it derived novel examples of Glitch Art from the faults inherent to the iPhone system. This project uses these inconsistencies as a mechanism for aesthetic creation that provides evidence for the fantasy of control that the walled garden of apps create. The development of the Instaglitch offers a counter to this hegemonic ideology via a studio practice that exploits the Instagram app's very limited 'degrees of freedom' without altering the app itself or employing less restrictive software. These works are examples of how repeated processing and 'filtering' of the same image within the same system-a feedback loop-magnifies the instabilities inherent in its operations. The 2,600 works in this series of static images demonstrates programmatic failures that are masked by its normal use, but are systemic instabilities-their identification allowed me to generate works by manipulating their impacts on a blank (white) image.

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