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"glitch is what you can just get away with!" -rosa menkman

"since, ordinarily, channels have a certain amount of noise, and therefore a finite capacity, exact transmission is impossible." -shannon weaver

"the fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities.these semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. the significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages. the system must be designed to operate for each possible selection, not just the one that will actually be chosen." -claude shannon

glitch studies manifesto 1. the dominant, continuing search for a noiseless channel has been – and will always be – no more than a regrettable, ill-fated dogma. 2. dispute the operating templates of creative practice. fight genres, interfaces and expectations! 3. get away from the established action scripts and join the avant-garde of the unknown. become a nomad of noise artifacts! 4. employ bends and breaks as metaphors for différance. use the glitch as an exoskeleton for progress. 5. realize that the gospel of glitch art also tells about new standards implemented by corruption. 6. force the audience to voyage through the acousmatic videoscape. 7. rejoice in the critical trans-media aesthetics of glitch artifacts. 8. employ glitchspeak (as opposed to newspeak) and study what is outside of knowledge. glitch theory is what you can just get away with! -rosa menkman

"malfunction and failure are not signs of improper production. on the contrary, they indicate the active production of the "accidental potential" in any product. the invention of the ship implies its wreckage, the steam engine and the locomotive discover the derailment." -paul virilio

"…transparency is necessary at times, but it is my belief that we need to rely on error, the accident, the glitch in our advanced yet confuted society if we are going to make technological and social progress." -Noah Eisenbruch