I really enjoyed reading Rosa Menkman’s Glitch Studies Manifesto. My favorite part of the Glitch Studies Manifesto is how it emphasizes the ever changing and unpredictability of glitches. It also acknowledges the contradiction that by producing a glitch, you are inherently creating and destroying something. I think it’s amazing how something so uncertain can produce such incredible art. I also really like how the reading questions how we define glitches and what makes something a mistake v.s a new opportunity. It questions us to reevaluate what we see as flaws, and realize that glitches are not accidents, they can show us new ways of looking at things.
After beginning to work a little with glitches I’m starting to realize some of the points that she makes are really true, especially how glitches are the technology's way of revealing its inner workings and imperfections. The way she phrased it really struck me: “But somewhere within the destructed ruins of meaning hope exists; a triumphal sensation that there is something more than just devastation.” This so clearly reflects how glitches are generally viewed in life, as an inconvenience and a problem, in comparison to how we should choose to view them, as a new way to experience something. I also thought the way the physical text itself was laid out really enhanced the message, however it also caused me
to really struggle to read it. Regardless, I still found it to be a really interesting reading.
