GLITCH. THE ART OF INTERFERENCE

Opening: THU 30.11.2023, 7 p.m.

Cracked smartphone displays, distorted images, colourful pixel structures. Only when there is a malfunction is our attention directed to the nature of the technical media that surround us every day, without them, however, being shifted to the forefront. 
As one of the youngest and most unpredictable art forms, glitch art specifically draws attention to the aesthetics of the flawed. Initially used as technical jargon among radio and television engineers in the 1950s, the term glitch (from the Yiddish gletshn, meaning to slip; to slide away) was soon introduced into the world of computer games to describe programming or graphic errors. A glitch is the unexpected result of a malfunction that occurs in computer games as well as other digital software, including video and audio. In the art context, glitch finds its immediate expression in the field of computer-generated imagery, the digital and net art. However, its roots go back to the early days of the history of photography, take its course form there as an artistic counter-movement to recognised forms of expression via avant-garde film, video and sound art to digital image media and net art, where glitches are intentionally provoked or deliberately programmed.

On 1,200 square metres of exhibition space, the “art of interference" is comprehensively traced as a global phenomenon. International artists critically question the closeness to reality of the media, create new worlds or uncover normative orders and socio-political disparities and, last but not least, make the invisible visible.

With artworks by JODI, Joan Jonas, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Rosa Menkman, Mame-Diarra Niang, Carsten Nicolai, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Man Ray, Pipilotti Rist, Raoul Ubac and many more.
 

The exhibition is supported by:

The Herbert Schuchardt-Stiftung
PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne with its partner Allianz and the K.S. Fischer Stiftung
RICHARD MILLE
International Patrons of the Pinakothek e.V.
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation
Karl Thiemig-Stiftung