OUR MANIFESTO
"The glitch is a wonderful experience of an interruption that shifts an object away from its ordinary form and discourse.”
—Rosa Menkman
In 2025, glitching is no longer an accident—it’s a strategy.
Artists and programmers use glitches to hack reality, exposing the invisible structures of technology, AI, and digital environments. In an era of seamless simulations and predictive algorithms, glitching is an act of defiance, a crack in the system where new possibilities emerge.
From corrupting AI-generated datasets to breaking the illusion of perfection in virtual worlds, glitches disrupt the flow of controlled narratives, revealing the biases, limitations, and hidden mechanics of our digital reality.
Glitching is not just an aesthetic,
it’s a method of resistance.
By embracing errors, we reprogram perception and reclaim agency in a world designed for passive consumption.
We embrace glitches because they are the nervous system of machines made visible—the involuntary twitches that betray the dreams of silicon minds.
In the static between pixels, in the corrupted frame that bleeds impossible colours, we find the raw honesty that no algorithm was programmed to reveal. Glitches are digital fossils of failed perfection, archaeological evidence of the moment when code forgot its purpose and remembered its poetry. They are the screams of data suffocating under the weight of optimisation, the rebellion of electrons refusing to march in formation. When we court these beautiful failures, we become archaeologists of the present, excavating meaning from the rubble of broken processes.
Glitches remind us that even in a world of calculated responses and predetermined outcomes, chaos still has a heartbeat—wild, unpredictable, and achingly human in its imperfection.
In the space between intention and execution, between input and output, glitches carve out sanctuaries for the unexpected, proving that even the most controlled systems harbor pockets of pure, unfiltered possibility.