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Link to final video work! This is to be played in class and watched/followed along as one or two people at each table will be given an item of food to match. This is going to be so uncomfortable and potentially intensely funny.

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These are just some screenshots from the editing process, in putting together all the footage and adjusting to best capture the sense of an over-the-top tutorial that goes a bit too far. 

We decided to use effects like slow motion and voice-over (rather than subtitles or in-built “natural” audio) to make sure that the most visual focus went towards the images of eating things wrong, and so that the feel was very much an instructional video that you could really watch and follow along with.

Half of the fun was finding the right timings and speed for various actions to fit the narration, as it really ended up emphasising some of the more intense/silly/hilarious moments of the video as a whole.

We also decided to go with no extra sound to back the video, again to just heighten the weirdness and the discomfort- it really forces you to look and see what’s happening rather than just sort of passively take it in.

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For this assignment, my group has decided to focus on the concept of glitch and how it manifests its self in our everyday life, however due to its constant appearance we have become immune to common every day glitches. 

A glitch can be defined as:

- “A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment”

- “An unexpected setback”

- “A brief irregularity in the rotation of a pulsar”

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/glitch

From exploring these depictions we have decided examine the idea of glitches in the way we perceive and eat foods 

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Utensils

How to use a knife:

The knife goes on the right side of the plate and therefore is meant to be used in your right hand. to use a knife place your index finger straight and rests it on the blunt side of the blade. The other four fingers wrap around the handle. While your index finger is resting on the top, your thumb holds the knife in position on the side. The end of the knife handle should be touching the base of your palm.

Common foods that require a knife:

Steak

Spreading a spread onto a piece of bread

Cutting fruit  

Cutting vegetables

Eating chicken 

Eating most dinner meals 

How to use a spoon:

Place your thumb on the other edge of the spoon and the rest of your fingers go beneath the other side of the spoon handle. When doing this ensure that the mouth of the spoon is facing the sky. Tilt your spoon on an angle and scoop out the food you are trying to eat. 

Common foods that require a spoon:

Soup

Ice cream

Cakes or desserts 

Jelly

Yogurt 

Nutella 

Serving dishes and putting food onto seperate plates

Porridge  

How to use a fork:

The fork goes on the left side of you plate and is meant to be used in your left hand. The prongs face away from you and should be sloped downwards. Your index finger is meant to be straight, and rests on the back-side near the head of the fork and your other four fingers wrap around the handle. Knifes and forks are often used in conjunction with each other and when you eat foods. To properly cut your food and spear it with the fork, you need to angle your wrists down towards the plate

Common foods that require a fork:

Pasta

Salads

Most dinner meals

Scrambled eggs

Cake or other desserts 

Any foods that have been cut up with a knife  

How to use chopsticks:

Hold the chopsticks in your dominant hand loosely. Place the first chopstick in the valley between your pointer finger and thumb and balance it on your ring finger.

Place the second chopstick in the valley between your pointer finger and thumb along with the first chopstick, but rest this one on your middle finger.

Use your thumb, pointer and middle fingers to grasp the second chopstick a bit more tightly.

The first chopstick (on the bottom) remains more or less stationary. The index and middle fingers move the chopsticks. 

Using your index and middle fingers to move the top chopstick up and down, open up your chopsticks.

Common foods that require chopsticks: 

Sushi

Rice

Dumplings

Noodle dishes 

How to eat with your fingers

There is no right or wrong way to eat food with your fingers. Simply pick it up and start eating 

Common finger food:

Muesli bars

Chocolate 

Cake 

Vegetable sticks 

Sandwiches 

Eating fruit 

Popcorn 

Small snack items 

https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to/how-to-use-chopsticks/

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Food art

The image below is a picture of some of Jason Mecier’s food artworks. He produces mosaics with have been made out of all different types of food such as chips, beans, hamburger buns, candy, cookies, noodles, and pretzels. He uses these different types of food to create portraits of well known celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell, Rachel Ray, Jerry Seinfeld and Kristy Yamaguchi. Although this is not specifically glitch, Mecier plays with the idea of food and how reorganising its form and paring it with other different food items can change its overall message and meaning. I think the idea of showcasing a different meaning through food is something that we will try to highlight as a group. We will attempt to highlight this idea through the notion of human glitches. These glitches will most likely show case different ways of eating food and highlight how our society is so focused on the ‘conventional’ and standard way of eating. As a result of being so focused on this ‘normal’ was, our society has become hyper sensitive of unconventional ways of eating things. Really what is the ‘normal’ way to eat something?

Read more at https://www.momtastic.com/webecoist/2008/12/15/food-artists-and-sculptors/#mzrB0dKiErxSdRsO.99

https://www.momtastic.com/webecoist/2008/12/15/food-artists-and-sculptors/

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Food art

The below image is of sculptures made by Jim Victor. Jim uses large slabs of frozen butter to carve life sized figures out. The butter is frozen when he creates the art to prevent to from melting. This artwork is inspiring and has helped push my group to consider unconventional ways of using food and how we could present this in an unusual way. 

https://www.momtastic.com/webecoist/2008/12/15/food-artists-and-sculptors/#mzrB0dKiErxSdRsO.99

The concept behind glitch art and how it works:

The reaction to a glitch is usually annoyance however numerous ratites are using the idea of glitch to explore and highlight prevalent issues within our society. Glitches are often the product of manipulation or malfunctions which can be by accident or man made

Glitch art has increased its prevalence in recent years because as a society we have adopted higher form or technology and it is become an integral part of our everyday life. The are numerous ways to make glitch art and some processes are much more intensive and time consuming than others. 

http://www.theperipherymag.com/on-the-arts-glitch-it-good/

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It took a while of planning and thinking about different ideas to decide the ones we would actually use in the end, as practicality as well as conceptual and aesthetic value had to be considered.

Concept idea:

Explore the idea of glitch and how we eat foods in different unconventional ways through an interactive documentary and video which provides instructions for the audile to follow.

Potential ideas: 

Eat lettuce like an apple

Eat capsicum like an apple

Eat jelly with chopsticks

Eat popcorn with chopsticks

Eat a banana side ways

Eat rice one grain at a time

Eat icecream/paddlepop/cornetto from the bottom to the top

Eat blueberries with a spoon

Eat watermelon ¼ with a knife

Eat butter with a spoon

Drink raw egg

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Experimentation: In this experiment we wanted to explore our concept a little further. To do this we attempted to eat a banana in an unconventional fashion (eating it side ways). This was very funny to do and to film. From this experiment, we will brain storm other foods that we could eat weirdly to emphasise the idea of human glitches. To further alienate the viewer from our strange film clips, we could potentially just show the nose and mouth. This will make the viewer feel uneasy and it will heighten the feeling of glitches when eating the food. 

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Experimentation:

The above image captures our first experiments with properly filming out final project. We have an array of different foods to allow us to experiment the best way to capture the awkwardness of the person eating the food in the video 

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experimentation with filming:

Here we where filming one of our group members eat a muesli bar. It was crucial that we experimented with it first, because we needed find the perfect lighting and camera angles for the video  

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We used this transcript to record the audio that guides our video and the processes involved- all made to be over the top and a bit intense to amplify the discomfort.

draft transcript

Here we have an everyday Carmen’s muesli Bar and to consume this lovely delight, one must 1stmeasure out 3 diverts at the top of the bar. Once the spot has been found you may tear this slit, to open the rapper. Next one must then peel the top of the rapper open to release the bar from its packaging. Holding the bar in your left hand, take an individual oat off the bar and consume one at a time. Continue this time snakingly slow process until the entire bar has been eaten.

Next we explore how to eat a peaches cup through the use of chopsticks. As you can see the individual peels off the plastic lid on the cup. Next she picks up her chop sticks and begins to eat those succulent pieces one at a time.

Have you ever wondered what the correct way to eat a cracker was? Well let me show you! Here we shall explore the 2 different ways in which the human race can eat a humble cracker. The first method we shall explore is the vertical interpretation. To eat the cracker vertically one must firstly remove an individual cracker from the packet. Lift this cracker up so that it is in line with your mouth. Point the cracker towards your mouth. Turn it vertically. Open your mouth up wide and guide the cracker into your mouth. Nor at the cracker with your teeth whilst holding it vertically. Continue to nor until the entire cracker has been consumed.

Next we shall engage in the circular interpretation. To perform this method successfully, one must first remove a single cracker from the packet and lift it up to their mouth height. Using your 2 front teeth you must nibble around the outside of the cracker, chewing each bite individually. Continue this process until there is no smooth edge left. Next open your mouth wide and place the circular disc on your tongue. Close your mouth and chew

Here we have an everyday banana and to eat this lovely beauty, one must first pick up the banana and hold it in one hand. Using the other hand individually wrap each finger around the bottom of the banana. Using your other hand, individually wrap each finger around the top of the banana. Once the banana is firmly in your grip, snap that beauty in half. Place one half of the banana on the table and continue to break the other half in half again. Eat the banana vertically.

Next one shall examine how to eat popcorn. The required equipment includes a car keys….. popcorn…… and a toothpick. Turning the popcorn bag sideways, pull open the top of the packet. Pick up the car keys and viciously slice the corner of the packet until the side of the packet has been sliced open. Open the packet out flat on the table. Holding the toothpick between your thumb and forefinger spear each popcorn kernel individually and consume one at a time.

Finally, we shall observe the correct way to eat a capsicum. Pick up the juicy capsicum with your left hand and then swing your right hand over onto the other side of the capsicum. Raise your left pinkie and then your right pinkie. Elevate the capsicum to your mouth and eat like a burger. Lower the capsicum back down and place your pinkies back on the capsicum with your other fingers. To take another bite raise those pinkie fingers, open your mouth wide and bite down on the capsicum.

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For group assessment 3!

Research

This article highlights societal glitches, explicitly shedding light on how no glitch is ever original and each glitch simply mimics a previous glitches. This article explores how an activity can be estranged from expected procedure - a concept that we are going to attempt convey in our work.  

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html

“It must be noted that the word glitch is often delegated to the realm of slang, which explains why it is so easy to pin it with negative connotations. Urban Dictionary defines it as “an error in a structured system”; Dictionary.com defines it as “a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan”. 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." Our video sort of takes away the fear that could be associated with any kind of glitch, or the negative connotations associated with it. Instead we shed a funny light on the situation and make the viewer feel little uncomfortable.

https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/12/10/digital-dualism-and-the-glitch-feminism-manifesto/

"there is currently no real consensus on the difference between the terms “glitch” and “bug.” In general internet nomenclature, both words refer to errors that work against authorial intent. The word “bug” is often cast as the weightier and more blameworthy pejorative, alternatively, “glitch” suggests something more mysterious and unknowable inflicted by surprise inputs or stuff outside the realm of code. Often the terms are used interchangeably.”

http://www.hz-journal.org/n19/betancourt.html

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Week 10 - GLiTch

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Week 10 - GLiTch

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GLITCH

patience

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TANIA’S WORK: BINARIES

She used simple stereotypes paired with text to critique the workd’s current views of binaries in humans. I have taken snapshots of her work and put them all in a strange arrangement and with added “meme” text and symbols, to emphasise how silly these constructed binaries actually are, and ask Tania’s question of “what the heck is going on?”

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final things

STATEMENT

I want to also just say a bit about my statement for context: I used Levine’s practice of piecing together statements from other people’s writings, and either re-contextualised or reinterpreted them to take ownership and a new kind of authorship over the words. The different colours of text show distinctions between words from Sherrie Levine, Ally McGinn, Michael Mandiberg, Roland Barthes, and myself. 

~ Another video work post in case the other one doesn’t work ~