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In retrospect to GLI.TC/H and as a preview to the future conversations on glitch art (amongst them the conversations that I will chair during the Aesthetics panels taking place at 2012 Transmediale ), Patrick Lichty just kicked of a month long Empyre mailinglist conversation on "Glitched, Cracked, and Dirty Media". Guests include the GLI.TC/H/BOTS (jon.satrom, Nick Briz and me), Caleb Kelly , Theo Darst (co-curator of the video screening of GLI.TC/H), jonCates (lecturer at the New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Marisa Olsen (artist/writer), and last but definitely not least,  Curt Cloninger (Glitch linguistix researcher). 

YOSHI SODEOKA ROSA MENKMAN DANIEL MENCHE JK KELLER CRISTOPHER CICHOCKI ░░░░ ░░░░░░░ ░ ░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░ December 2 - December 30, 2011 REMAINS IN THE END TIMES , San Francisco, US. held in a city notorious for devastating earthquakes and the pioneering of early psychedelia, presents a paradigm of apocalyptic hallucinations and "tech-gnosis" contrasting modernity with ruination. The show title, partially derived from Slavoj Žižek's 2010 opus Living in the End Times, expands the proposition that there is no pending big bang, no End of Days — on the contrary, society is already immersed in this so-called Doomsday. As a result, a slow transformation has drifted us into a world where smog-ridden skies became the most beautiful sunsets imaginable and the white noise of a television lulls us to sleep at night. Utilizing disposable technology, deteriorated media, and derelict landscapes as a conceptual foundation, these artists have transformed ruination into mature experiential wo...