Obfuscated Structured Substrates
Riccardo Mantelli dismantles the alghoritmic pattern which makes the software work by opening breaches of infidelity in programming and letting out hypnotic automatisms on the oneiric side of the machine, symptoms of desire for the “dream inducing machine” of the computer: unproductive drives held inside their own silicium reverie.We are embarking in a journey from the ludic desire of a rebellious computer to the automatic luddism of a machine-like aesthetics with a tendency towards disobedience and oriented to the electric filter of an aesthetics frozen in the creation act of an anarchic beauty of malfunction.
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Glitch Pop: An exploration on the glitch-alike aesthetics
In my works I don't use new media and new technologies in the sense traditionally assigned to them. I try to appropriate their soul, using them in an unusual way and hijacking these technologies; I take a critical and detached position with respect to media mechanisms using strategies of infiltration, provocation and interruption. I mainly dedicate myself to the aesthetics of the error, the disturbance and technical and software failure, the dysfunctionality and aesthetics of the machinery.In a nutshell, I try to make visible those processes that normally work under smooth surfaces, in the depths of the machine.My works approach technology not from the point of view of smoothness, they make the fusion of real and virtual worlds flexible, such as ... those of accident, friction and breakage that represent the necessary elements of any technical reality.
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