A number of photos from a brand new e-book by multimedia artist duo Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein. “American Glitch” discover the slippage between reality and fiction, and the way this manifests throughout the panorama of america. Particularly in an period outlined by screens, an over-abundance of knowledge can typically depart us questions what’s actual and what isn’t. The concept we live in a simulation has grow to be well-liked. Orejarena and Stein have spent years canvassing the web and amassing social media posts of “glitches” — indicators that our actuality is just not solely what it seems to be. Their findings are offered within the e-book as “4 dimensional reverberations by means of time and area.” The duo have additionally created a collection of images documenting websites across the U.S. which might be harking back to these gaps between the digital and bodily world, one’s notion and the broader human expertise:
“Are we dwelling in a simulation? Made up of 1s and 0s? I don’t suppose so. Life has at all times been unexplainable and unusual. It has at all times felt in these moments like a glitch. To say it’s a simulation, to me, is a cop out.
I wish to try to work at it. Determine and course of why a tough or laborious to understand spot has been specified by entrance of me. Possibly discover humor and introspection within the glitch. I’ve heard photographers examine taking photos to asking questions. And that pictures will be about downside fixing.
I feel it’s a option to see the world in another way. And hope that others see the glitches you discover attention-grabbing sufficient to make an image of— join along with your perspective and need to discuss it.”
See extra photos from American Glitch beneath or through Gnomic Book. There can even be a solo exhibition of the work at PALO Gallery in New York opening February ninth and Deichtorhallen Museum in Hamburg later this yr.