Pioneering Digital Glitch Collaboration in 2005
By Clayton Campbell and Christian Knudsen
“In 2005 at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California, Clayton Campbell and Christian Knudsen were some of the first West Coast artists to experiment with data bending and glitching jpg files for digital photography. It began when Campbell, using the first commercially available digital cameras, re-photographed from his computer screen the notorious images of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. The files corrupted when downloaded, appearing as static, distorted, fragmented fields of color.”