Glitch
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i1.28244Keywords:
Australia, digital television, glitch, obsolescence, photographyAbstract
Over the last five years many industrialized economies have been shifting their analogue television networks to digital transmission. This photographic essay captures the accumulated ruin of this transition as it continues to play out on the streets and screens of contemporary Australia. As an artefact of the changeover period, the glitch is rendered both as an ephemeral surge of disordered information and as an excess of redundant technology. Through photography’s capacity to hold this infinitesimal blip, the “tiny spark of chance, of the here and now” (Benjamin 1972 [1931], 7) is revealed.
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Benjamin, W. 1972 [1931]. “A Short History of Photography.” Screen 13(1): 5–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.1.5
Jacka, L. 2004. “Doing the History of Television in Australia: Problems and Challenges.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 18(1): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1030431032000180987
Langton, M. 1993. Well I Heard It on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television. Woolloomooloo, NSW: Australian Film Commission.
Manon, H. S. and D. Temkin. 2011. “Notes on Glitch.” World Picture Journal 6. Available online: http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/WP_6/Manon.html
Summers, A. 2012. “Her Rights at Work? The Political Persecution of Australia’s First Female Prime Minister (Vanilla Version).” Human Rights and Social Justice Lecture, presented at the University of Newcastle, August 31, 2012. Available online: http://blogs.newcastle.edu.au/blog/2012/10/23/her-rights-at-work-speech-by-dr-anne-summers
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2015-09-02
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Extended Forum
How to Cite
Frederick, U. K. (2015). Glitch. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(1), S1-S8. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i1.28244
