[Frameworks] GLITCH: ONTOLOGICAL EXHAUSTIONS & SYSTEM FAILURES ||| Spazju Kreattiv | Valletta - Malta | opens Friday, March 14, 2025

[Fred Camper]

Apparently it's in Malta. Really? It all sounds interesting, and there 
are lots of other reasons I would love to go to Malta, such as 
Caravaggio and ancient ruins, but is there any reason these event 
announcements often don't include the location? I suppose when the event 
is in New York or San Francisco, and the location is Geary Street or St. 
Jones Street, the assumption that all the cool kids will immediately 
know the city, bur not everyone lives in the US, and wouldn't good 
manners include giving the location right away? Admittedly, were I as 
knoweledgeable about the world as I would like to be, I would have 
immediately known were Valetta was, and now I do.

Fred Camper
Chicago

On 2/22/2025 7:36 AM, Michael Betancourt wrote:
>
> image0.jpegSpazju Kreattiv cordially invites you to the opening of the 
> GLITCH: ONTOLOGICAL EXHAUSTIONS & SYSTEM FAILURESexhibition at Space 
> C, Spazju Kreattiv on Friday 14th of March at 7 pm.
>
>
> We look forward to a welcome from Elmar Kohlhofer, Embassy of Federal 
> Republic of Germany Valletta, Daniel Azzopardi, Artistic Director of 
> Spazju Kreattiv, from Prof. Dr. Michael Betancourt (Research Artist, 
> USA, Georgia) and Verena Voigt M.A. (Curator).
>
>
> With the group exhibition GLITCH: ONTOLOGICAL EXHAUSTION & SYSTEM 
> FAILURES, Spazju Kreattiv transforms into an amplifier for reflections 
> on digitality & resistance, history & remembrance. Aesthetic 
> "disruptions" (glitches) created in the exhibits challenge the 
> audience to think critically and historically about the state of our 
> technology-dependent society, enabling an international comparison of 
> protest movements over the past 100 years.
>
> Glitching reveals the fragile boundaries of existence we no longer 
> perceive as our own but as belonging to technology—a discomforting 
> realm of technocracy and external, authoritarian control. We encounter 
> a world of the non-physical, one that we neither fully understand nor 
> control, where surveillance, automation, and algorithmic dependency 
> creates complex states of exhaustion and learned helplessness, which 
> leads us down uncertain passages.
>
> How old is the glitch? If we believe historical sources, it has always 
> existed. The Tractatus de Penitentia (c. 1285) by Johannes Galensis 
> (John of Wales) introduces a subversive demon named Titivillus, the 
> "patron demon of scribes," who collected errors: omitted, mumbled, and 
> mispronounced words—especially those that clerics were said to have 
> “stolen from God” during their morning prayers. He carefully preserved 
> these glitches for their indictment at the end of days.
>
> The history of resistance in East Germany demonstrates that it is 
> indeed possible to rewrite a hegemonic canon that was meant to be 
> forgotten. With the help of powerful but glitching programs, the 
> erased self-assertion of forgotten resistance fighters can be 
> reinscribed into the historical record of European literature.
>
> For digital artists, Glitch Art provides a metaphysical toolkit to 
> visualize, interpret, challenge—then deconstruct—technocratic, 
> dictatorial, or repressive systems and their neoliberal, communist, 
> and capitalist designs for human capture/control.
>
> Artists: Ruth Bianco, Joana Moll, Katrin Leitner, Nadja Verena Marcin, 
> Michael Betancourt, Ian Keaveny, and Niklas Washausen. Curator: Verena 
> Voigt
>
> The project is supported by the Goethe Institute, the German-Maltese 
> Circle, and the Valletta Design Cluster
>
> Satellite event 1:
> Reading and discussion with Ines Geipel & Verena Voigt
> The German Double Helix of Memory
> March 19, 7 p.m.
>
> Satellite event 2:
> Daria’s Vision: Resistance, Spatial Dissolution, and Slowness
> With Ruth Bianco & Verena Voigt
> May 4, 11 a.m.
>
> We look forward to seeing you at Spazju Kreattiv! Further details may 
> be found in the attached invitation. To learn more about the 
> exhibition, kindly visit
>
> https://kreattivita.org/en/event/glitch-ontological-exhaustions-system-failures/ 
> <https://kreattivita.org/en/event/glitch-ontological-exhaustions-system-failures/>
>
>
>
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> image © crash-stop aka Ian.Keaveny, New Ancestors (3), 2025 (7 
> Video-Installations): 2d to 3d conversion and
> animation of images of censored and imprisoned East German writers 
> (1945-89): Inge Müller (13.3.1925–66)
>
>
>
> I have movies in this show!
> Michael
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>
>
> Michael Betancourt, Ph.D
> https://linktr.ee/cinegraphic | cell 305.562.9192| zoom 875 581 4648 
> <https://scad.zoom.us/j/8755814648?pwd=QW1UaXhpSmRjZCttN3JOdGVvME5PZz09>
>
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