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Glitch Western welcomes to ROBNESS! — jonCates (2023)

jonCates
5 min readJan 7, 2023

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howdy pard’nr! wish’N yawl a warm welcomes to AI Glitch Western whirlds!

screenshot of ROBNESS’ Instagram feed of his recent NFTs https://www.instagram.com/robness_v2/

ROBNESS recently moved inn to the AI Glitch Western territories, so lets make sum introductions all around, b’N neighborly ‘n such-like!

1rst up, as yawl alrdy know, Glitch Western is a good idea! wide open opportunities are mythically abounding Out West. technological frontiers are always already shimmering && shifting in our imaginations. more than just mirages or feverdreams, their borders are always based on our social constructs in the contexts of our actual lived experiences. from railroads to more recent engines (of digital transformation), technologies both define (enclose) && extend (open) boundaries on the edges (1)

or better put: as Navarre Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning Indigenous author from the Kiowa Nation says, The West “is a dream” that “people who have come here from the beginning of time have dreamed.” Momaday goes on to call The West “a dream landscape.” he names these Western lands as sacred, vast, and believed-in (2)

wit his recent adventures into the AI Glitch Western, ROBNESS take aim at icons, adversaries, and ideas of friendship. start’N off his artworks’ titles wit the words “MY ADVERSARIAL FRIEND” ROBNESS digs inn to “DIGITAL GOLD,” “HIGH NOON…

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jonCates
jonCates

Written by jonCates

Glitch Art pioneer, Digital Art teacher, Media Art Hystories scholar; founder of Glitch School && Glitch Art Gallery in 台北,台灣 (Taipei, Taiwan) and online.

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