Rosa Menkman: General Glitch Falyn, Olivia, Jane, Mutesi Biography

- A full-time position as a substitute professor at - Born in 1983 New Media at the KHK since 2018 and - Wrote a book, The Glitch Moment(um)- helps expanded on the Resolution Studies curriculum. explain her and her work - She started glitching in 2005 when she was 22 - Won the Collide International Barcelona Award- years old annual international competition that invites - A co-organizer of the GLI.TC/H festival artists of any nationality or age to apply for a - Graduated at the University of Amsterdam in the 3-month residency award by submitting a subject of new media proposal - Fun fact: She is one of the Richest Visual Artist who was born in Kingdom of the Netherlands Art Process

❖ Uses the Quicktime and Cinepak (for moving images and compressions) software for her work ❖ ❖ She embraces the process of not being afraid to break her work as a learning process ❖ ❖ Likes to use opposites to portray; sanity for madness, order for chaos, etc. ❖ ❖ Glitches are a benchmark and threshold to create new problems and continue to find new solutions. ❖ ❖ Unconvers unseen, “too good to be implemented” resolutions to produce a new interpretation through technology ❖ ❖ “Highlights visual artifacts created by accidents in both analogue and digital media” (Loosen Art, 2018) Glitch within Contemporary Art

Mistakes and errors are part of our everyday life, by taking all those imperfections you can make a new types of art into that imperfection. As Rosa explained during her Ted-talk speech, glitching was never something she wanted her life, but it later become something she saw it as making art, liking broken items because she can create a new meaning for them. Vernacular of File Formats, 2010

Within this piece, Menkman explores the errors within the file formats using compressions, highlights, artifacts and glitches with unexpected pixels to show a corrupted self-portrait.

At first sight, these pieces are distorted images, recognizing the errors rather than the expression of the face and contents within the picture. Each pixel is an intentional detail to distract the viewer from viewing a specific “punctum”/point of the original file.

As a viewer, the image continues to make me wonder who the person is in the picture and why this picture was taken. Moving women images

What’s captivating of this image

● Female creation ● Creation that that has a story ● Glitch The Fall of Pal (2011)

One of the noticeable art work of Rosa Menkman is the Collapse of Pal set in a utopia world. A narrative audio video that introduce a character named Angel of history, this figure is presented as a glitched ghostly women face moving around, and also another character named Pal. In the video glitched, the Angel of history witness a execution of pal. Xilitla, 2013

Menkman creates a futuristic, 3D dysfunctional environment with a combination of moving images, shapes, and other objects, a hallucinatory type of art.

Although this is not mainly based on glitch alone, there are aspects of it throughout the image, allowing the audience to become induced into a gameplay like environment. Glitch Timond, 2014

This is a collage made up of 10 different cut outs.

The effects have became signifiers, pointing to the presence of hackers, ghosts, A.I. Its framing, in the shape of non-square, non-quadrilateral windows, references unresolved standards.

As a viewer these are glitches that you would see come up on your screen when something was not right 365 Perfect (2019)

❖ “365 Perfect”, an app that is used to touch up and beautify photos, was used to create these images. Using features in the app like eye enlarging, brighten/soften skin, lip resizing, and much more, Menkman re-saves and re-compresses her new edits hundreds of times to create the “perfect” image. ❖ Her purpose behind the creation of this piece was statement about the use of casual face photo-editing to uphold society’s beauty norms. ❖ “By re-saving my newly beautified face every iteration, the artifacts of a re-compressed JPEG and the absurdity of our beautifying standards are amplified.” Mytopia, 2015

A wall-sized glitch art vinyl, displaying the elements that are lost within the compression of a JPEG.

This was installed for a “psychedelic” interior space.

In this space, it makes me feel uneasy, as if my surroundings are breaking away, unable to see the actual image. And with the set of eyes on the wall, an eerie sense is present to those viewing the installation. DCT:SYPHONING. The 1000000th (64th) interval,

First commissioned by the Photographers Gallery in London, for the show Power Point Polemics

An anthropomorphised DCT (Senior) narrates its first data transfer with DCT Junior, and their interactions as they translate data from one image compression to a next (the “realms of complexity”).

As a viewer it makes you think the sides are going towards the center very fast and guiding your eye towards the center Spomenik (2017)

❖ Installation piece with livestream VR and projection ❖ “A monument for resolutions that will never be.” ❖ Known for representing “many different things to many people” and references well known spomeniks ❖ Complex compression textures ❖ Meant to create a form physical representation for things that are impossible to represent like screen objects A Testcard for De-calibration, 2018.

This is a JPEG image compression

She actually does not have ownership of the image anymore because of all the copies and appropriations of the image

She redid this image with pixels because of how she felt about her not having ownership over it, like she was just pixels

This was in Vogue US

As a viewer the pixels make it hard to see the womans face and because of that we wonder who she is and what her story is, as she seems very mysterious and almost like she is trapped Behind White Shadows: 2019. ❖ Video on Vimeo ❖ Voicing the idea of lost identity/ownership of images after image processing ❖ Color test cards

Lena Soderberg was used as a test image for hybrid JPEG compression schemes Sources https://networkcultures.org/_uploads/NN%234_RosaMenkman.pdf https://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/oct/20/artist-profile-rosa-menkmen/ https://beyondresolution.info/RESOLUTION-UPDATES https://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/oct/20/artist-profile-rosa-menkmen/ https://www.loosenart.com/blogs/magazine/the-punctum-as-glitch-in-contemporary-art-the-art-of-rosa-menkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64V-nkVpnes http://www.digiart21.org/art/the-collapse-of-pal https://beyondresolution.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Portfolio%20November%202019.pdf http://chasseurmagazine.com/chasseur-interviews-artist-rosa-menkman/