Glitching the Image

Instructor: Reg Beatty

This workshop is about imperfection and an aesthetic approach rooted in errors (accidental or deliberate!) that utilize fragmentation, misalignment, and distortion, to look behind the veil of digital image-making. We will explore a collection of small browser-based tools that allow for the direct handling of pixels, as well as the creation and manipulation of images that can be stretched, bent, and shattered, in multiple and ingenious ways, all to disturb their smooth surfaces and challenge their perceived perfection.

Reg Beatty is a bookbinder, book artist and designer. He has maintained a studio in Toronto since 1992, lectured at a variety of institutions, and taught bookarts and book design at OCADU, York University and Sheridan College. As project manager and in-house designer at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Digital Humanities, he helped create the new interface and content management system for Yellow Nineties 2.0. He received an MA in Communication and Culture at TMU/York, where his major project investigated the algorithmic book. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Japan, and across Canada.