The book explores the intersection of glitch feminism and the digital sphere, highlighting the potential of using glitches and disruptions within digital networks as a means of feminist activism, resistance, and transformation.
“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)
So, I was thinking of Using glitch art to resist algorithms, digital media blurs the line between online and offline, we can also use a self-blurring method to resist technological manipulation, using blurring as a strategy to change the balance of power between tech companies and users. But I haven’t yet figured out what this method is and how to self-blur.
Glitch art is a form of artistic expression that deliberately introduces errors, malfunctions, or incompleteness into digital and technological media to convey a message. This art form aims to reflect and resist the negative effects of digital media on society, individuals, and cultural production. Glitch art attempts to disrupt existing digital media paradigms, challenging standardized and perfectionist aesthetic ideals, and encouraging viewers to reexamine their consumption of digital media and contemplate its impact on the human experience.
Then I do some artist research about bluring
The artist has created a ‘portrait of reality and mummies’ through the magic of light and shadow. This symbol of social ambiguity is like a visual poetics of ambiguity. The coexistence of aesthetics and visibility with invisibility has substantial political implications. In it, the identification of the protagonists of the story cannot occur because all the public can see shadows. Those who do not emerge from the blurred background and become visible are bound in limbo that hangs between the visible and the invisible.
《TrackMeNot》 Daniel C. howe & Helen Nissenbaum
https://rednoise.org/daniel/trackmenot
TrackMeNot doesn’t work by hiding or encrypting, but by noise and obfuscation, periodically sending algorithmically generated decoy queries to search engines so that users’ actual searches get lost in clouds of fake data, hidden in clear view. One of its creators, artist and hacker Daniel C Howe, claims, “Using obfuscation tools to fill their databases with noise shows that you don’t approve of the tyranny of big data.” Kate Milberry, in DIY citizenship: Critical-Making and Social Media, comments that TrackMeNot is an excellent example of critical making, which falls into the “category of technological tools” that help amplify “social resistance or political voices”. The “technology tool category”.
《AdNauseam》Daniel C. howe, Helen Nissenbaum & Mushon Zer-Aviv
https://rednoise.org/daniel/adnauseam
As online advertising becomes increasingly common and unrecognised, AdNauseam completes the cycle on behalf of users through automated ad clicks. With the data collected showing the ubiquitous stream of clicks, user tracking, targeting and monitoring become meaningless.
From this perspective, the software takes a similar approach to TrackMeNot, which uses blurring as a tactic to shift the balance of power between a tracker and tracked.
《DNA Spoofing》Dewey-Hagborg
https://deweyhagborg.com/projects/dna-spoofing
As IP spoofing has made anonymous internet browsing possible, DNA spoofing extends this potential by disrupting genetic material, synchronising anonymous physical trajectories with the digital. Artist Dewey-Hagborg offers several DIY techniques to combat genetic surveillance in this spirit.