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Digital Artifacts in Art

• I am looking for Digital Art and Artists that are utilizing mistakes, artifacts, corruptions, feedback, etc of current digital techonology. Obviously Video and Audio Feedback are examples of this, but I'm looking for other ways. I have found one artist who actually crashes his computer when it is saving an image file then uses the corrupted visuals from the resulting image to create a new image (http://www.solargarlic.com). Another method is to xerox something over and over again to create an abstract collection of artifacts created by the copy machine. I'm not sure where to begin looking for this kind of art (all web searches turn up articles about eliminating digital artifacts), nor am I able to adequately describe what it is I am looking for, perhaps there is already terminology for this kind of art.

• Answer:

  Hi gin_e-ga, The term you are looking for is "aleatoric." You found it when you discovered solargarlic. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/aleatory.html Gives a nice definition that helps to explain why this art form is of interest to artists who are experimenting with stretching the boundaries of what popular culture defines as "art." The solargarlic site has links that take you to other sites like: http://www.neuralust.com/ The artists are listed on the right side. Some interesting work. Notice that when you hit the back button the main page doesn't always come up the same. There are some nice images right there without going deeper into the site. http://www.joshuadavis.com/ - take a look at some of his "print" section... http://www.dantewoo.com/index.html Dante Woo is not a real name, but is a real artist in the East Village in New York who has contact info that may be of interest to you. If you do a search with just aleatoric or aleatoric art most of what comes up is music related. Not that it isn't interesting, it just isn't what you want. Searching aleatoric digital visual art will provide plenty of information for you. Have fun! bcguide-ga