Strange Hystories of the Glitch Western

jonCates
3 min readMar 14, 2024

this here story can be told ‘backwards’ err ‘forwards’ beecause these haunted Glitch Western ghoststories are nonlinear yawl…

Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace) programs the 1rst Glitch in 18XX, setting free Hopper’s mythic Moth In Relay;

1947: Dr. Admiral Grace Hopper’s younger and older selves simultaneously discover the first organic computer Glitch Art energy via Moth In Relay message sent from Lady Lovelace (September 9, 1947, 3:45 PM);

Claudine Ibáñez Hernández inspires Miss Liberty Starlight to design The Wood Street Computerror Mathematics Machine in the 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) Glitch Western, from The Mercury Herald Newspaper Archive, as published by Eadweard Ibáñez Guedea (~18XX, exact date unknown);

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jonCates

School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Film, Video, New Media and Animation dept; Art History, Theory and Criticism dept.