Glitch Hop noun: “A style of electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. It has been described as a genre that adheres to an “aesthetic of failure,” where the deliberate use of glitch ...

When it comes to the meaning of meaninglessness, why go halfway? Glitch aesthetics depend on the distortion of meaning: whether or not the original meaning “means” anything is questionable.

The roots of the glitch aesthetic are largely defined by digital technology, which sounds inherently different to faulty analogue gear when it malfunctions. Think of faulty or abused analogue gear and ...

Depending on who you asked, glitch art only qualified as glitch art if the aesthetic cracks happened by accident. Then the medium evolved, and some digital artists began to force those errors by ...