Glitching Hard

I've never been overly interested in glitch art.  In fact, I've considered it one of my least favorite art forms pretty much since I learned about it. However, recently my Xerox printer has been doing strange things like dragging words on a print and just not using cyan even though there's still ink in the cartridge.

I absolutely loved the first glitch print, a full poster covered in only the headline of the actual poster intended to print. So I kept it.  Then today another glitch occurred, where the bottom half of the poster got partially dragged out, and cyan was left out. The whole piece in its entirety wasn't pleasing, but I loved one corner of it where a really colorful magenta and yellow drag happened creating a funky layering.

That's when I realized I was looking at glitch art.

Obviously, I was a bit shocked and confronted with my total oblivion to how cool glitch art could be.  I'll admit, I still don't like a large portion of glitch art.  On the other hand, I have just discovered how much glitch art varies.  There are a million possibilities for glitch art, and a million forms for glitch art to exist in. 

So now I challenge you this: try something new with your art.  If you've always hated painting, try something you've never thought of.  Do something blind, go into something new with an open frame of mind to fill up with new possibilities.  I've started my own glitch art wall, and am experimenting with intentional glitch art, rather than relying on my printer to do it all for me. :)