Rosa Menkman (born 1983) is a Dutch art

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, and visual artist specialising in

glitch art Glitch art is an art movement centering around the practice of using digital or analog errors, more so glitches, for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices. It has also been regarded as a ...

and resolution theory. She investigates video compression, feedback, and glitches, using her exploration to generate art works. Menkman's ''The Collapse of PAL'' (2011), in which she acknowledges the end of

PAL Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a color encoding system for analog television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 lines, 50 fields (25 ...

(Phase Alternating Line)—an analogue video programming structure—is the digital version of a live audio visual performance first performed on national Danish television and afterward realized at oa. Transmediale (Germany) and Nova festival (Brasil). Menkman has curated several international exhibitions of other artists' work. In 2019 Menkman won the Collide International Barcelona Award from

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. From 2018 - 2020 Menkman was substitute Professor Neue Medien & Visuelle Kommunikation at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. In 2023 Menkman will run a resolution research lab at HEAD Geneve.

Glitch art

In 2011, Menkman published ''Network Notebook #04: The Glitch Moment(um)''. This book uses information theory to propose an understanding of "

" as a particular genre of

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. She argues that the glitch shifts between being an artifact and a process. She also wrote ''A Vernacular of File Formats'' and the ''Glitch Studies Manifesto'' in the same year. The manifesto was awarded 'best practice' by Virtueel Platform, then sector institute for e-culture in the Netherlands. The publication of ''Network Notebook #04: The Glitch Moment(um)'' coincided with the GLI.TC/H festival, organized by Menkman in collaboration with American artists Nick Briz and Jon Satrom. The first GLI.TC/H festival in 2010 (Chicago) was followed by a second and third edition in 2011 (Chicago, Amsterdam, Birmingham) and 2012 (Chicago). Her work makes use of

compression artifacts A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media (including Image, images, Sound recording, audio, and video) caused by the application of lossy compression. Lossy data compression involves discarding some of the medi ...

, resulting from

discrete cosine transform A discrete cosine transform (DCT) expresses a finite sequence of data points in terms of a sum of cosine functions oscillating at different frequency, frequencies. The DCT, first proposed by Nasir Ahmed (engineer), Nasir Ahmed in 1972, is a widely ...

blocks (DCT blocks), which are used in most

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formats, such as

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and

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digital audio Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital signal (signal processing), digital form. In digital audio, the sound wave of the audio signal is typically encoded as numerical sampling (signal processing), ...

. In 2015, Menkman opened the ''institutions of Resolution Disputes'' at

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in New York City (in reference to

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and

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). In October 2015, one of the works in the show, called DCT (referencing discrete cosine transform), was awarded first prize at the Crypto Design Challenge hosted by

Museum Of The Image The Stedelijk Museum Breda, formerly the Museum of the Image (MOTI), is a national museum for visual culture in Breda in the Netherlands. The museum focuses on film, design, photography, fashion, visual arts, architecture, science, and gaming. ...

(MOTI) in Breda, the Netherlands. Her ''Vernacular of File Formats'' piece has attained "cult status". It was translated to Polish (together with ''Glitch Studies Manifesto''), commented and republished in ''Glitch Art is Dead'' in 2016. In 2016 it was acquired by the

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

and MOTI.

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* * Jason Huff
Artist Profile: Rosa Menkman
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Glitch art

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