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A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Motion Media Design Department in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts in Motion Media Design at Savannah College of Art and Design.

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The thought process for this concept has led me here, or at least I've always had this in my mind, but I didn't understand what exactly I was doing enough to put this into words. In the media capture production of the visual thesis, every subject I did a shoot with was in a place that felt the most comfortable or considered home; hallways, bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, etc. There was only one time we left home for another venue early in production; however, the location was another place of comfort.

My primary focus is to use glitch within the lens of Afrofuturism, representing a possible future for people within the African Diaspora who are allowed to be themselves despite negatively distorted views and criticisms about it. From there, my instinct was to create an environment for the subject to feel the most comfortable, and their own home seemed to be the most logical place or another place that felt like home to them. Being in that safe environment allowed them to explore a quality about themselves that was longing for expression, consciously or subconsciously. Once I finished this part of the production, an overall observation occurred, carving out a space for the "Othered."

"Space For The Other [To Glitch]" comes from this realization. A space that is entirely one's own to make as one pleases. And yet still be seen as something unnecessary. This type of negative observation manifests through to lenses of glitch art. However, despite this negative critical viewpoint from the outside, the subject can still use that to their advantage, turning negatives into positives. Something that can be inherently ugly made beautiful with their influence, involves transmuting negative criticism to amplify one's natural expression.

Taking all into consideration leads me to this phrase:

Accept The Glitch

Embrace The Glitch

Become The Glitch

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Written, Directed, Shot, Edited by Brittonius

Music by Shinra Knives

The Glitches:

• Tony_B

• Shy_L

• Tony_R

• Mike_W

• Zeena_E

• Jared_F

• Andrea_J

• Zola_

• Garrett_B

• Antonio_P

• Olivia_G

• Shellanin_

Thesis Commitee:

• Dr. Alessandro_I

• Christina_M

• Korry_R

Special Thanks To:

• Shinra Knives

• Hai_D

• Andrea_J

• Yva_E

• Mike_W

• Tony_B

• Mark_S

• Garrett_B

!!!WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS FLASHING IMAGES!!!!

Recently, I've been experimenting with glitch art for my upcoming thesis, which is partly about creating 21st century art using 21st century technology as tools. All of images shown starting out as photos taken by me from my smartphone or found on the internet. Using my tablet, I glitched and reglitched photos over and over again, creating hundreds and hundreds of images. On the computer is where is sequenced all the images individually creating 1-5 second movies or gifs. From there, I combined all the videos into one. Normally, mashup music is created prior to the visuals. However, for this project, visuals were created long before the mashup music was a consideration.

Music:
Phutureprimitive - Xotica
Grimes - Eight
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
Kele - Doubt
M.I.A. - Bad Girls (LF/DY)
Kosheen - Tightly
Crookers ft Rye Rye - Hip Hop Changed
Childish Gambino ft MC Chris - The Awesome
Kylie Minogue - Skirt
The Prodigy - Colours

This visual was created as part of an assignment called the Visual Music Project. Unlike making a music video, this assignment was meant to explore adding visuals to sound with being diluted with words. The word I came up with was "Colours". I wanted to used a wide spectrum of bright flashing colors in my project. I first created the audio using 5 different songs by M.I.A., Santigold, Rye Rye and CSS, which I felt became somewhat of a mashup on its own. From there, the concept I came up with was using various video clips of my mainly my childhood (Digimon, Sailor Moon and Power Ranger to name a few) and some from my adulthood, mixing them together in a multilayer psychedelic trip of nostalgia and hireath. Here is the end result.