Born and raised in the Bay Area (Oakland and San Francisco) and now living in the California mountains, MAX CAPACITY is well known for his early Glitch Art, Animated GIFs, his DOS Punks reworking of Crypto Punks, releasing his work openly into the Public Domain (CC0), founding communities such as the Analog Video Union, and working with often obsolete analog video technologies such VHS tapes, VCRs, and old school computers to make his Digital Art. He vividly remembers the cyberpunk glitches of Max Headroom from his childhood. Obviously, CAPACITY named himself after Headroom. He is deeply inspired by the legendary icon whose creation helped canonize glitch aesthetics in the 1980s. Both maxes, MAX CAPACITY and Max Headroom created foundations for Glitch Art as we know it today.
In 1982, artist MAX CAPACITY was born into the increasingly cyberpunk world of the early Eighties in California. As he says: “I basically lived in Silicon Valley. My dad worked in Silicon Valley so I would drive around with him in the middle of the night to weird warehouses where there were like 20 dudes on computers…” The same year of his birth, William Gibson’s genre defining cyberpunk story Burning Chrome reached readers…
