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Glitch

Issue 6 | August 2024

In This issue

We love glitches. And we think you do too.

For this issue we asked our contributors to explore glitches, ruptures or deviations in storytelling, calling on them to be disruptors and produce something that pivots from the norm.

 

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Credits

  • SBN3
     Interviewee
  • Amenah Abouward
    Writer
  • Peggy Bain
    Writer and Artist
  • Hazel Beevers
    Managing Editor
  • Katie Beswick
    Writer
  • David Devanny
    Writer
  • Zander Grinfeld
    Creative Director
  • George Harrison
    Writer
  • Anna Kiernan
    Publisher
  • Janelle Kim
     Editorial Assistant
  • Amy Lilwall
    Issue Editor
  • Tam Lines
    Audio Artist
  • Simone Marconi
     Writer and Conceptual Artist
  • April Roach
     Issue Editor
  • Purbasha Roy
    Writer
  • Irina Tall Novikova
     Visual Artist
  • Oswin Tickler
    Visual Artist and Consultant
  • Elio Smith Diaz-Andreu
     Writer
  • Yudi Wu
     Art Director and Visual Artist

Letter from the Editors

"We hold onto the glitch in urgent, shaking hands; it is our reminder that we still have the authority, regardless of the inevitability of technological advancement. That flicker lets the light in."

Visual Interruptions

A marriage between human and machine. A layering of emotion, both highly personal yet distinctly computer generated. Artwork created by an algorithm made by Tickler's code that presents a glitching brain in action.

G L I T C H G R A P H S

A triptych of visual poems by David Devanny which considers contemporary post-digital life with reference to (and in loving nostalgia towards) some of the glitch aesthetics of 1980s and 1990s media.

Virtual-Morphosis

'I realise in all the horrid, dark, and corrupted folders, I have a memory. In a PC case, I feel at home. I belong to them. Kidnapped on a rainy day, all my passwords abandoned me. They take away my word in a flash.'

An interactive web experience of writings and sound.

The Prose Code: A Journey into the AI-lluminated World of Literary Algorithms

Elio Smith Diaz-Andreu asks AI to write a story about two cats. Thankfully Whiskers and Luna enjoy a happy ending, but in this experiment, Diaz-Andreu uncovers the ethical implications of using an algorithmic system to generate broader narratives.

Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia by Katie Beswick explores the sensory interplay between physical and digital realms, exploring the ways senses are mediated through different online/offline sensory registers.

Dusk

Dusk by Purbasha Roy is a dreamy exploration of a life hanging in the balance, of a liminal space waiting to be disrupted.

Gulls

“It has been a year now, and I can still feel, against my palm, the space your hand once occupied.” Gulls, by George Harrison is a work of fiction that explores hidden messages and missed opportunities.

Wouldn’t you rather be crooked

An interactive web experience of poetry and illustration.

Digital Mythology

Like, Share, and Be Warned: How the Sirens of Social Media Are Creating Modern Myths

Interview | All Writing Needs to Be Looked Into

An interview with SBN3, the person behind the viral ‘anti-visual novel’, Class of ’09.