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Rosa Menkman Rosa Menkman By Drew, Aubri, Allie, and Emily Rosa Menkman Biography ● Born April 8th, 1983 in Arnhem, NL ● Dutch based artist, curator, and theorist specialized in the errors and artifacts produced from visual artifacts ● Completed her studies in Master of Arts (New Media, 2006) and Research Master of Arts (New Media, 2009) both at the “that moment that makes you pivot and reflect. It grabs you; but you University of Amsterdam don't know what is going on or what way to go. It is a powerful ● Influenced by JODI net art confusion that inspires you to read and pushes you to try and make sense.” organization The Glitch Moment(um) GLI.TC/H Artistic Process ● Rosa Menken mainly focuses on noise artifacts made from analogue and digital media. ● She uses programs such as Unity, Syphon and Discrete Cosine Transform. ● Syphon helped overlay digital and audio signals to create a glitched effect. ● She says that DCT can be used to create secret messages through jpegs. ● She also has used a transmedial reader and syphon to create something in the outdated PAL format. ● In general, she isinto the idea of using sound, visuals, and concepts, such as Institutions of resolution, to express her theories and ideas. “Paradise is Exactly Like Where You are Now….Only Much Much Better” The Collapse of PAL 1 (2011) The Collapse of PAL - Vimeo The collapse of PAL (2011) was a series of works that explored the life and death of the format PAL. Menkman talks about how “Brutally Violent” way in which PAL was “sentenced to death”. Menkman also explores the way that PAL lives on in the newer formats and its life helped better the newer formats. Dear mister compression (2010) Dear mister compression - Vimeo Corrupt tango There is not sufficient data. Please enter data Your file has invalid markers. Enter new markers Your dimensions do not correspond. Change dimensions ERROR Goto data therapy and repair your registry Your keyframes are missing Your codecs are not supported Please respect the software Now it is too little too late [system shut down] Dear mr compression I write a 1000 poems to you Is this what they call progress? Warmly yours, the noxious angel of history DCT:SYPHONING (2015-2017) Beyond Resolution - DCT:SYPHONING DCT:SYPHONING The 1000000th (64th) Interval (2015-2017) was displayed in multiple galleries around the world: Tokyo, NYC, San Francisco and London; each with different aspects revolving around concept idea. Beyond Resolution (2015) Beyond Resolution Beyond Resolution (2015) was a live performance piece that involved psychedelic abstract background visuals with occasional text, bright colours, repetitive moving objects in the background and an abundance of visual glitches. Originally performed in Liverpool, UK it lasted 15:31. Goto80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K35oZyMs1io Rosa collaborated with Goto80 to combine a series of music with glitch art. According to the Goto80 website (2009), they traveled Europe together through Media Playgrounds, a creative broadcasting community. Xilitla (2014) Menkman (2014) implies that this videoscape using glitch art was inspired by, and named after a place in Laz Pozas, Mexico called Xilitla. The Landscape Architects Network (2015) states that this structure was built by artist Edward James who was granted a fortune by his family and wanted to create something surrealistic. According to an interview, Rosa (2014)was interested in the dramatic changes of scenery. Menkman (2013) posted about it on her blog which showed it was made into a videogame and was called a “failure” and “annoying” in a German videogame review. Institutions of Resolution Disputes (2015) According to Digicult (2015), this is the first NYC solo exhibition of Rosa Menkman. The iRD or “institutions of Resolution Disputes” is a philosophical concept on creating a media that translates digital materials as existing everywhere at the same time (Menkman). She wrote a book called “The Glitch Moment/um,” published by the Institute of Network Cultures which goes more into detail about her theoretical practices with glitch art. Myopia This is a digital print on wallpaper that was also shown in her institution for Resolution Designs series in her solo showing. According to Transfer Gallery (2015), this glitch image is a close up of a JPEG2000, allowing people to see what was lost in the image compression. Her goal is to bring into light the different failures and genealogies of glitch. Vernacular of File Formats (2010) Rosa is very passionate about her theories as well as her ability to educate others. She published the Vernacular of File Formats on slideshare.net (2010) to produce a guide for databend compression design. According to Rosa (2012), this program has allowed many other file compressing and data programs to begin. Radio Dada (2008) ● In Radio Dada, Menkman uses image feedback and exported animated gifs to a video with trippy visuals and a constant feedback. ● She enlisted the help of a person named Extraboy to help put music to the feedback and have it kind of sync up with it. ● Uses video, digital and analogue are mixed to “create a coherent whole” (Menkman). The Maze The maze is comprised of about 30 seconds of black faded into a scene of two houses and a rose bush. It starts off really eerie with at night as the houses are almost doubled and faded in and out. It then goes to color and then goes to more of a yellow purple tone. The sound in this piece is mostly feedback and “Where the last of us go to find the Lost Boys then leads into music. Out on the wastes of the Never Never Maze - That's where the Boys lie! There where the waves dance forever - That's where the Boys lie!” A Stranger like Dada / Weird like quaint collage ¯\_( ͡ ʘᴥ ⊙ ‶ʔ)ﾉ/̵͇̿̿/̿ ̿ ̿☞ ఠ ಥ “Your work is so dada, it’s just weird...” Based on Dadaism photomontage in the digital, glitch form. Menkman wrote an essay on her annoyance of friend’s disinterest in her work. “Strange is a powerful effect from which to depart in a time that is desperate to ask new critical questions to counter the noise” Bibliography Artfarts, Live. (December 10, 2009). Rosa Menkman + Goto80 @ Media Playgrounds. Retrieved from https://www.goto80.com/rosa-menkman-goto80-media-playgrounds. "▋▅▉▝▊ || Beyond Resolution". 2018. Beyondresolution.Info. https://beyondresolution.info/. Digicult. (2015). Rosa Menkman: Institutes of Resolution Disputes [iRD]. Retrieved from http://digicult.it/news/rosa-menkman-institutions-of-resolution-disputes-ird/ Land8: Landscape Architects Network. (March 6, 2015). The Mysterious Castle of Sir Edward James and the Xilitla Garden. Retrieved from https://land8.com/the-mysterious-castle-of-sir-edward-james-and-the-xilitla-garden/. Menkman, Rosa. (August 8, 2010). A Vernacular File Formats. Retrieved from https://www.slideshare.net/r00s/rosa-menkman-a-vernacular-of-file-formats-4923967 Menkman, Rosa. (April 28, 2014). About Xilitla. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBEbYrnxx_4. Menkman, Rosa. (December 5, 2012). TedxTalks. Glitch - Benchmarking the deranged: Rosa Menkman at TEDxUtrecht. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64V-nkVpnes&t=521s. Menkman, Rosa. “Radio Dada”. Filmed 2008. https://vimeo.com/2321833. Menkman, Rosa. “The Maze”. Filmed 2015, https://vimeo.com/126847735. Menkman, Rosa. "What Is a Question? A Stranger like Dada / Weird like Quaint Collage ¯_( ͡ ʘᴥ ⊙ ‶ʔ)ﾉ/̵͇̿̿/̿ ̿ ̿☞." Furtherfield. October 05, 2017. Accessed September 23, 2018. ఠ ಥ https://www.furtherfield.org/what-is-a-question-a-stranger-like-dada-weird-like-quaint-collage-¯_-͡ ʘᴥ-⊙ ‶ʔﾉ̵͇̿̿̿-̿-̿/. ఠ ಥ Bibliography Continued Menkman, Rosa. (May 24, 2013). Wired (Ger) Reviews Reviews Compress Process (Xilitla). Retrieved from http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2013/03/wired-ger-reviews-compress-process.html. "Rosa Menkman." Course:HIST104/Dentyne Gum - UBC Wiki. Accessed September 23, 2018. https://wiki.ubc.ca/Rosa_Menkman. "Rosa Menkman: "I Intend to Uncover and Elucidate the Ways through Which Resolutions Constantly Inform Both Machine Vision and Human Ways of Perception."" Conversation Project NYC. June 07, 2017. Accessed September 23, 2018. http://www.conversationprojectnyc.com/blog/2017/6/7/rosa-menkman-i-intend-to-uncover-and-elucidate-the-ways-through-which-resolutions-constantly-inform-both-machine-vi sion-and-human-ways-of-perception. "Rosa Menkman." TRANSFER. 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