Glitch

Glitch art has become more popular in the sense that before, when it would be considered as a poor image, it has now gained popularity to the point that people purposely make art that looks like this. Briz's theNewAesthetic.js encapsulates this concept, where the web page itself looks like a screen you'd see when operating a Mac. With these tutorials and the software available, he shows that it isn't too difficult to create these pieces of art. I think it's definitely a cool concept to connect real life examples pulled from Google Maps or what have you with these little pieces of art to create a new piece with a new meaning. For example, the screenshot with Congress and the hourglass pixelated image overlay proves a perfect statement with no words. Quoted from Jonathan Minard, "the culture of technology is a human culture and a human experience," which I think is completely accurate because of the ways that we use technology today. Without technology, these images going viral wouldn't be, and I think that it adds to the ways that we interact with one another. From phone calls to texts, now it's a social norm to interact with others through images and memes. We've come full circle where these glitch and pixelated images that once were rejected, are now the images that we seek and wish to create.