This NFT has been created with vintage paint software from 1990–1991: Ultrapaint for 68k Macintosh and Deluxe Paint IV for Commodore Amiga. This work uses color range/palette cycling and speaks to the history of paint software for early personal computers. We see a reference to 16 bit aesthetics, the origins of computer software.
Kristen's work is a living document of the processes associated with this historic software. This definition opens the work to the idea of living archives and how to revive new technologies that age so fast.

Created with vintage paint software from 1990-91 : Ultrapaint for 68k Macintosh and Deluxe paint IV for Commodore Amiga. This work uses colour range/palette cycling, and speaks to the history of paint software for early personal computers. Kristen's work is a living document of the processes associated with this historic software.

Created in the standard Amiga scale 320x256, 30 fps, 2021

Mac + Amiga: Ultra/Deluxe Paint

RetroWave

Abstract Geometric Poster Design.

Future Wastelands - Station II

Earth passing by

Licky Loaf

Sunset

From Nam June Paik to Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Cory Arcangel, and other artists influenced by the idea of the glitch.
A glitch, a malfunction from a TV monitor or in a video game, distortions, misalignments, malfunctions, grainy images, and hardware failures are tools to transmit repetitions, technology and sentimentality for a lost era, an attempt to refer to nostalgia and/or net art. What is commonly used by the artists in this selection is the crossover between digital and analog that seems to be a recurrent point in some of the practices and an important aspect in the treatment of the imagery and of the sound—the collapsing of the linear time frame seems to be of interest and an important creative methodology.
The glitch aesthetic is an effective and affective tool to explore contemporary yearning for past generations, often used nowadays by artists who have not necessarily experienced a real TV glitch! But it is also a trend of its own, a creative and critical tool of a failing technology and society.


*"In a society that conditions the public to find discomfort or outright fear in the errors and malfunctions of our socio-cultural mechanics—illicitly and implicitly encouraging an ethos of “Don’t rock the boat!”—a “glitch” becomes an apt metonym. Glitch Feminism, however, embraces the causality of “error”, and turns the gloomy implication of glitch on its ear by acknowledging that an error in a social system that has already been disturbed by economic, racial, social, sexual, and cultural stratification and the imperialist wrecking-ball of globalization—processes that continue to enact violence on all bodies—may not, in fact, be an error at all, but rather a much-needed erratum. This glitch is a correction to the “machine”, and, in turn, a positive departure."* (L. Russell, The Society Pages, 2013)

Glitch and retro TV aesthetics

Artists influenced by the glitch and 80s TV nostalgia.

Mac + Amiga: Ultra/Deluxe Paint

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