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dutch introduction to  glitch for dummies ,  first published on the 9th of January 2012. English translation of the full article: GLITCH FOR DUMMIES. A glitch can be understood as a technological failure, but also as a space for artistic creation. Rosa Menkman is an artist and theorist who researches noise artifacts like glitches, compressions and feedback. In this introductionary article she will give an insight into what glitch means, within the growing (international) community that works with 'glitch'. ​─▄──██─▀─█─ THE ACCIDENTAL POTENTIAL OR RU-DI/EMENTIA "Misfortune and failure are not signs of improper production. On the contrary, they indicate the active production of the "accidental potential" in any product. The invention of the ship implies its wreckage, the steam engine and the locomotive discover the derailment. The accident is the ultimate functioning of a product." - Paul Virilio, original: The Accident of Art , Semiotext(e): New York, 2005. p...

In the light of Kim Asendorfs NO AI-bot research and the forthcoming family of his  yxcv4321  bot, I started looking into Twitter bots again. Bots are software applications that run automated tasks, often faster than humans could perform them. But the definition of a bot seems quite arbitrary, where do we call an application or a string of actions or scripts a 'bot', and where or when do we call it something else? Is the only reason for calling a scripted set of actions a bot, the fact that the script takes the role (and maybe the place) of a human being as a form of artificial intelligence, like they do for instance on wikipedia, in chatrooms, twitter or spamming us through mail  (do they really set out to maximize their chances of success? - which is what often AI delineates) ? And what about the new generations of Twitter web scutter that does not seem to be intelligible in any human-sense kind of way, but do follow scripts and try to maximize something (followers, ...

The Tipping Point of Glitch.  Digital Folklore as Moment/um.  Rosa Menkman 2012. Januari, Les Valenciennes.  Before my 7 day crazy week during Transmediale I did a tour through France. This is a registration of one of the talks I gave in France.