MAX CAPCITY’s Digital, Analog, Glitch, and Crypto Art

jonCates
12 min readDec 2, 2023

N0803 — MAX CAPACITY (2023)
Analog VHS video still → Midjourney → Runway → Analog VHS video glitch. Created with analog video hardware, AI software, more analog video hardware, and digitally post-processed. 1280x960 animated .GIF”
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The journey we will take with MAX CAPACITY’s art takes us across California, through the Internet Eras of personal computers running the Disk Operating System (DOS) from the 1980s, to the most recent blockchains and memes in Digital Art. We will encounter some of the most definitive Crypto Art and the distinctive styles of MAX CAPACITY. His Analog Video Art, Glitch Art, and TRASHART all express his unique takes on remix, reuse, and what some folks once called ‘appropriation’ in Art. His ability to process the world and make it his own in his consistent and recognizable style, across all of the devices and platforms he uses, is truly amazing. He is also profoundly generous and sincere in his efforts to share and support communities that organize themselves through his Digital Art.

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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.