rejecting insctruction

rejecting instruction is a remix of Eames Office’s “A Computer Glossary”, an educational short film that was shown for the first time in 1968 at the IBM Corporation’s Hemisfair pavilion. The film is characteristic of the 70s approach to computer science: using oversimplified metaphors and dated american clichés.

We feel this source material is overdue for parody and reexamination. As glitch artists, we scoff at well structured algorithmics, disguised information & behaviorism induction, we would like to remind the world that computer science is not exact, but that it is a playground of malfunctions and emotions that even cold steel hearted machines can hold and share with human beings.

Context

The short film was produced as the result of a net-based collaboration of the Exquisite Glitch community for whom I organized this session
both as a curator and participant. Exquisite Glitch is a self managed social media based community, it is open to anyone
around the world who enjoys glitch art aesthetic and exquisite cadavers. Every few months,
a member steps up with an idea, then coordinates and curates a new round from the source
to the final montage. The productions of each round wildly vary in content, medium, and
diffusion; from digital image collages, video game texture packs to full-length movies,
the works of the community are often published online, but have also on occasion been
printed or projected in museums, galleries, hacklabs and independent art spaces around the world.

Credits

Participating artists from the Exquisite Glitch community :

Брюс Проблеми - Digital Ruins - Dream Doctor - Entropywave - flvz - GenerateMe
György Ulrich - Holographic Thought Process - j3d1n4 - Jo FRGMNT Grys - John Bumstead
Jozes Aquiler - Kaermack Polewska - Kaspar Ravel - M Reinhardt - Monoskop - Prntrror - PulledFrop
Roberto Malano - Samuel Dumez - Suture - v3d.space - vividvivi - XanderofXanadu - music by 自決 9 6

Dates

Digital artwork featuring a central black square with a white, sketch-like drawing of an eye, set against a background with a colorful, glitch-like pattern resembling a distorted digital screen.

Partially obscured text related to computers overlaid on a digitally distorted background with glitch effects in blue, white, and orange. The visible words read 'COMPUTER, An automatic machine that accepts instructions and information. Following the instructions, operations on the information and reports the results.

A glitch art image depicting two cartoon figures reminiscent of 1970s style, appearing to interact with each other across a backdrop of bright, horizontal stripes and digital noise. Below them are symbols and words in frames suggesting a decision-making process, with the words 'yes,' 'no,' and 'kiss wife ?' visible, alluding to a daily routine or marital clichés.

A solitary cartoon figure sitting with its head looking up as if they just fell, evoking a sense of loneliness. The figure is set against a backdrop of vertical, colorful lines with a heavy glitch effect, creating a distorted, digital atmosphere.

A stylized image depicting a speech bubble filled with distorted binary code text, creating a pixelated effect. The bubble is set against a background of colorful, vertical stripes that are warped to follow the outline of the bubble, highlighting the digital glitch aesthetic.