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the beautiful:
Google Maps Glitched New Baltimore Renders — zegalba (2013)
deeply inspired my Glitch Western genre, especially my 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) experimental feature film. i remember this Art vividly from when the artist 1rst released this haunted work of Glitch Art on tumblr…
this Art resonates wit me on vry personalLevels. i grewUp in a place like this,
lived in a house like these, haunted on stolenLands
&& conceptually i understand this work as importantly positioning Glitch Art as a form of Digital Art in which ‘digital’ can be hyperreal, more real than the ‘real.’ this is also a form of Americana that i am from, and vry familiar wit. the forms and colors, the ways in which the map (digital/software) leads us (physically) to an enchanted/haunted place. we move thru the world, thru a…
