GLITCH: Designing Imperfection
Published September 2009, Mark Batty Publisher, NY
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How did the idea for this book arise?
On Saturday 16th October 2004, following one of our long conversations about a possible glitch DVD collaboration between Iman Moradi and myself, we suddenly changed course and decided to publish a book on the visual glitch.
Just 4 years and 11 months later, it saw the light of day!
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 05:29:51 +0100 From: Iman Moradi <organised@gmail.com> To: BEFLIX <beflix@gmail.com> Subject: Conversation 16th Oct 2004 > Over the past few weeks we've both independently come to the > conclusion that at this moment DVD isn't the best medium for us to > express ourselves. We're both quite busy with other computer based > work and realise that a DVD collaboration requires significant > amounts of motion production experience and dedicated audio artistry. > > Although we explored a lot of interesting areas and discussed many > possible avenues over the past year, we didn't really produce work > that was final and presentation ready. The experience however has been > valuable. > > Its led us to believe that writing a book is the way to go for our > collaboration. We weren't even sure why we discounted this idea in the > first place. It seems a natural option to write a book first and then > move onto the semi interactive. > > *perhaps in retrospect we were seduced by the initial excitement of > having motion Glitch visuals on TV's in peoples living rooms? Or > uncertain whether we can substantiate something in print due to lack > of prior writing and precedents in this area...*
Many thanks to all contributing artists, designers, interviewees, (and of course Per Platou who kindly wrote the preface at short notice) and to Mark Batty Publisher, NY.
03 September 2010
A review of Glitch: Designing Imperfection appears in Issue 75 of Eye Magazine.
14 April 2010
A review of Glitch: Designing Imperfection appears in Issue 181 of Grafik Magazine, page 90.
25 March 2010
A review of Glitch: Designing Imperfection appears in Issue #35 of Neural magazine.
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