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This glitch art recreates the hell of cubicle work
Glitch art comes in all shapes and sizes, and much of it is very, very bad. (Google it and you’ll see a lot of low-rent ghost imagery and, um, that one dreamy picture of Kurt Cobain?) The work of Wayne Edson Bryan cuts a different figure, though. It starts with process: Bryan actually hand-makes the artwork, printing off paper, cutting and reassembling it back into sharply geometric, almost Mondrian-esque compositions. They’re richly textured, evoking blown-out dot matrix printing and cathode-ray feedback in equal measure. While this inspires images of immense, three-dimensional collages, the actual works are only presented as digital…