Julia On Media response

What stood out most to me from GH Hovagimyan’s essay is the line in the final paragraph. Hovagimyan notes, “In generative art or music or theater, computer algorithms create or manifest the forms of art. In this way the art is ever changing.”  I want to consider this quote in relation to glitch art. Glitch art is when an artist alters the code on a image or sound bite, to create a distortion or abstraction of the original piece. Often times the artist has little control over how the glitch affects the piece art. I think glitch art could be classified under Hovagimyan’s term “generative art” because the content that is being created in glitch art is so randomized and reliant on the computer algorithms. We might also consider laptop orchestras as an example of generative music.  In which artists/musicians gather and generate music using just their laptop. The results are often random and based on the reliability of the devices used.  Both of these could fit into what Hovagimyan refers to as the “‘Post Media’ information environment” because the art is ever changing within these manifested forms the message is less communicative. Hovagimyan’s discussion of various media helped to establish what has preceded this Post Media age, but his failure to address examples of what he considers Post Media lessened his overall essay.