A Response To Glitch Art

 The thing that stood out to me the most was the topic of Politics and Glitch art. To me this idea of corporations not allowing consumers to tinker with their own products in disconcerting. It gives us less to work with as consumers and as artists to make things that are outside "normal" conventions. With this in mind, more programs should be more free and more hardware should be more free to tinker around with in order to create something beautiful or strange. That ability to create something outside of normal parameters gives us this sense of true creation that is unlike anything before that was made or unmade through the use of deletion. To me, it seems as though corporations don't want to expand their users abilities to do anything for fear of breaking something or causing something that was unintended and causing trouble for the company. 

    Another thing that stood out in the series of videos was regarding the idea of copyright in the free space of ideas and art. Art is one of these things which can be re-written and transformed and I really gel with that, there isn't one defined idea that just has to stick to that one idea. The amount of concepts that are established to be part of copyright but are so transformed that they seemingly are not part of the copyright are so great in number it overpowers the original. Additionally, there are a ton of ideas that should be free to use and should be free to modify in their own right as they are so simple that its maddening that one cannot use them. Lastly there should be ways for corporations to not just supersede over the artist making a statement or idea on the product in question or the idea that has been put out into the world.