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GLI.TC/H, Glitch‘n’Games, mur.at – Networking as a Sustainability Strategy w/ Irena Borić
This panel brings together various actors that build up an infrastructure that supports, represents and nourishes glitch art community. Within the panel, we look into the importance of collective and collaborative strategies that support larger communities, as this is never the work of a single person. How can new technologies be incorporated in common experience and action? By presenting different geographical experiences and perspectives, we look into the importance of gathering around glitch art as well as into the importance of doing it together/ with others.
Participants: Antonio Roberts (UK; GLI.TC/H festival Birmingham), Bee Nix (US; Glitch‘n’Games), Peter Stiegler (AT; mur.at)
Moderator: Irena Borić
Bee Nix (SutureBlue) is a Pittsburgh-based artist-researcher, fabricator, and curator working across interactive and time-based forms, with an MFA in Interactive Design & Game Development. Investigating play, unstable systems, and emergent behavior through interactive installations, experimental animation, game environments, and curation, she examines how technical systems shape us and how we shape them in return. Nix has exhibited and curated across Europe, Iran, and the US, much of it through her connection to Glitch Artists Collective, where she has been active since 2015. Most recently, she curated and produced GLITCH’N’GAMES, a multi-venue exhibition of glitch art and video games in Chicago.
suture.blue / suture.blue/glitchngames
GLITCH’N’GAMES is a multi-day exhibition exploring the shared histories and evolving cultures of glitch art and video games. Its second iteration, held in Chicago, focuses on physical engagement with systems, bringing together artists, game makers, circuit benders, and theorists through competition, installations, discussions, performances, and collaborative play.
suture.blue/glitchngames
Antonio Roberts is an artist, musician and curator based in Birmingham, UK. His practice is concerned with how the misuse of digital technology impacts people of colour and other marginalised groups. His recent work focuses on the depiction of Black people in digital media, ranging from stereotypical misrepresentations in early video games to modern algorithms and AI codifying existing biases. His (Algo|Afro) Futures mentoring programme teaches live coding software as a way to address how Black people have been under/misrepresented in digital art and electronic music, despite being pivotal to its development. He is currently learning game development, with the aim to explore how immersive environments can be used as a narrative storytelling device. He is also working on his debut EP, created using a combination of live coding software and hardware synthesisers.
hellocatfood.com / web.archive.org/web/20121227065017/http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
GLI.TC/H is a free, open festival and conference hybrid founded in 2010 by Nick Briz, Rosa Menkman and Jon Satrom. Held across Chicago, Amsterdam and Birmingham, it brought together glitch artists, theorists, coders and enthusiasts through exhibitions, screenings, performances, talks, workshops and online projects. It also developed an open research wiki and published the GLI.TC/H READER[ROR], creating a lasting resource for glitch art knowledge and practice.
beyondresolution.info/GLI-TC-H
Peter Stiegler is a performer and composer of electronic music based in Graz. The primary focus of his artistic work is to question and dissolve common practices in electronic music. He examines functions and interfaces which make up the foundation of modern digital music practice, and seeks to reshape or circumvent their use. He attempts to make light of the raw properties of digital sound as well as the natural imperfections at the heart of every computation. Since 2026, he is occupying a position in the core team of the Graz-based net/art initiative mur.at.
instagram.com/pechnaton / mastodon.social/@pechnaton
mur.at is a Graz-based, self-managed, non-commercial network for art and culture. It provides digital infrastructure for networked art and culture, promotes free/open-source technology, diversity of media, open information flow, and transparent knowledge sharing.
mur.at
The discussion is organized and moderated by Irena Borić.
Irena Borić is an art historian. She works as an independent curator and critic, but she is also working in temporary collectives on projects such as Politics of Feelings. Economies of love, 2012, Shame on you!, 2013-2016, and net.cube, 2015-2018, Symptoms of the Future, 2020. Curated exhibitions include Politics Within, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, 2014, My Land Has Palm Trees, Rijeka, 2014, Pipe Dream, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2015, Truth that Lies (with Renat Šparada), Impakt, Utrecht, 2019, Low frequencies of the Earth’s song, Galženica Gallery, 2019, Digital oxymoron, GT22, Maribor/MKC Split 2023/24, 26th Media Mediteranea festival : Umreženo more, 2024. She was a member of the biennial collective of the 32nd Graphic Biennale: Birth Criterion, Ljubljana, 2017. She stayed at curatorial residencies in Helsinki, 2011, Celje, 2012 and Vienna, 2015. She is one of the INCA press editors. She is a member of the Croatian section of AICA.
