This sculptural video piece refers to the corporeality of the screen. It consists of five TinyCircuits small digital screens and a digital photo frame. The video on the small screens shows zoomed in cropped sections of a blended combination of two found glitches, both accidentally encountered through faulty transmission on televisions in motel rooms. The small screens were 3D scanned and reiterated as a rotating 3D animation, with the glitch video inserted into the 3D model as slices of the moving image. The video on the larger screen is a screen capture that reveals the raw software process of animation, interspersed with the animation itself. The small screens, which have no casings, being positioned overtop the animation video that displays details of software, both reveals and merges the surface of the image with the subface of hardware and computational operations. The sound component for this piece was made by opening a video file as a raw file in Audacity, which resulted in a continuous hissing noise that emanates from the tiny speakers connected to the small screens.

The found glitch video is colourful, abstract, and almost painterly in its appearance. It recalls the aesthetic of manufactured false glitch effects, despite its being a capture of a real glitch occurrence.

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