When POLAAR commissioned me to create the album cover for Soreab, a UK techno producer, they asked for something in the spirit of my "Turntable Anatomy" series (a pen plotted series of generative modular grid art). But this project would take me somewhere else: into the intersection of AI glitchy hallucinations, contemporary dance theory, and the physical permanence of ink on paper.

Late to the party (as I often can be), I recently discovered Rosa Menkman’s work while at NXT Museum for the “Still Processing” exhibition.

Turns out, Rosa Menkman has quite the background in Glitch Art, having worked on theorizing it and having produced artworks bought in the Stedelijk Museum collection. Usually not a big fan of video essays, I ended up being very interested in two of her productions. The first one about racial and sexist biases in analog and digital image processing. The second one about the changing nature of rainbows due to atmospheric conditions (pollution) or changes in our analog wetware (eyes).

Dither Boy is a software that produces very cool dithering effects on images. You can pick from multiple algorithms and customize them. Pretty cool! I wish I would have the same kind of things but for vector content. That is definitely something I keep in mind for my plotter art.

Discovered at Arles' Rencontres de la Photography, Jenny Holzer's Truisms are life-lessons collected as impactful short sentences.

Some of my favorites:

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

A lot of professionals are crackpots

A strong sense of duty imprisons you

Action causes more trouble than thoughts

All things are delicately interconnected

Always store food

A cool Tumblr with a lot of pictures from the 70s sci-fi era.