Monica Chang – Looking Outwards – 11

Rosa Menkman

Her website: http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch curator, visual artist and researcher who specializes in digital media and analogue – specifically noise artifacts: glitches, encoding and feedback artifacts. With her artwork, she emphasizes the idea that the process of imposing efficiency, order and functionality does not involve the creation of procedures and solutions, but utilizes ambiguous compromises and the forever unseen and forgotten.

Menkman is considered to be one of the most iconic video glitch artists as she often utilizes software glitches to develop her stunning pieces. One of her algorithmic pieces, ‘Xilitla’, is a hallucinatory, futuristic 3D architectural environment formed by polygons and other unconventional objects. Using game-like functions, the viewer is allowed to navigate through this graphic landscape using the head-piece in the center. Menkman also considers this particular piece to be one that would best describe her body of other works.