Photo/Art/History Projects

Ahmedabad Profile Tom R. Chambers put together this video/Net art piece when he was conducting a new media art workshop at the National Institute of Design in India [July, 2006]. India was so overwhelming in terms of sensory stimuli for Chambers that he chose to do a video piece that would get this point across to the viewer by using a repetitive and delayed process with the same video to compound its effect. Allow loading time, and then click on the players at various time intervals to enhance the process. Continue to click on the players to keep the process going. This action creates "connective art" ... participation by the viewer.

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Tom R. Chambers works with the "glitch" art form and Apollo images (courtesy of NASA). Glitch art is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices. What is called "glitch art" typically means visual glitches, either in a still or moving image. It is made by either "capturing" an image of a glitch as it randomly happens, or more often by artists/designers manipulating their digital files, software or hardware to produce these "errors." In a technical sense, a glitch is the unexpected result of a malfunction, especially occurring in software, video games, images, videos, audio, and other digital artifacts. A computer glitch is the failure of a system, usually containing a computing device, to complete its functions or to perform them properly. Chambers likes this connection between this art and the all too common glitches that have occurred in un...

FOCUS GALLERY Tom R. Chambers founded this online gallery for the Digital/New Media Arts in 1997,  making it one of the oldest on the Internet. Its status today is of a historical nature.  Several images from the gallery follow: