This thesis argues that glitches provide opportunities to communicate with machines and discover new knowledge outside human rational limits. Rather than dismissing glitches, the document suggests they should be embraced and explored through experimentation. This could lead to discourse between humans and machines and knowledge beyond what is attainable through biology alone.

1. Error and
the Unknown:
using glitches to explore
a world outside reason
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2. Any man can make mistakes,
but only an idiot persists in his error
marcus tullio cicero
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3. What can we learn from error?
do machines have a voice?
how can we transcend the limits
of our human rationale?
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4. This thesis presents the hypothesis that glitches
are forms of collaboration and resistance from
machines that provide opportunities for new
communication and discovery.
Rather than disregarding these interventions,
these fleeting glimpses into an unknown
world should be embraced and explored
through experimentation.
Such a hypothesis could lead to discourse
between man and machine and–ultimately–
knowledge beyond the limitations of our biology.
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5. Etymology of Error
/meandering path
/deviation from "true"
/tension and ambivilance
/human error
/chance
+englightenment aberrations (david w. bates)
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6. Glitch as Error
/fleeting
/incorrect editing
/forced errors
/re-interpretation
/due to humans?
+glitch art databending, wired
magazine 2010 (duncan geere)
+glitch: designing imperfection (iman moradi)
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7. Embracing Glitches
/intentional disruptions
/reappropriation
/glitch art
/noise music
/error as personal style
+noise channels: glitch and error in
digital culture (peter krapp)
+loving the ghost in the machine: aesthetics of
interruption (janne vanhanen)
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8. Error as Communication
/mechanical agency and voice
/collaboration and resistance
/evolution of machines
+what technology wants (kevin kelly)
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9. Exploring the Unknown
/how to interpret errors
/new avenues of exploration
/accidental discoveries
/why we make mistakes
/beyond biology
+ seeking perfect imperfection: a personal
retrospective on glitch art (iman moradi)
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10. Thank you.
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