What Is Glitch Art?

Exploring the distorted and digital nature of abstract art.

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“You create something and then you destruct it, and then you create something else by destruction,” says London-based web artist and graphic designer Leonardo Suozzo, who enjoys his pursuits in glitch art for its essentially limitless boundaries. Suozzo distorts images by using a combination of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and JavaScript manipulation, digitally producing distorted images envisioned in his mind. Crane.tv explores the art medium with President of the Royal Academy of Arts Christopher Le Brun to ask him the question: can you create art from glitches?

Explore more of Suozzo’s digital art here.

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