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hauntingglitch — jonCates (2022)

jonCates
10 min readDec 8, 2024

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Curator jonCates explores haunting Glitch Art in 3 definitions, through the work of 3 artists exhibiting at /’FU:BAR/ 2022: AK Ocol, noumenal, and Marta Timmer.

PART I: Ghosts && Glitch / Glitch Art;

“Ghost no.1–3” by AK Ocol (2022), as exhibited at /’FU:BAR/ 2022

Do you remember seeing ‘the first photograph’?

Point de vue du Gras (View From The Window At Le Gras) — Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1826)

View from the Window at Le Gras is now known as the ‘first photograph’. Nearly 200 years ago, Niépce captured this view through his open window. An image from the past. Architecture, French countryside, a horizon line… This single image, precious and historicized, may have taken him several days of exposure to natural sunlight in order to inscribe on fragile materials. Over the course of those days…

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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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