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DPM: Could you characterize a glitch art as a special

type in contemporary art of today?

EOD: I have been fascinated to watch the commu-

nity build up over the past few years around the idea of

glitch art and I have met a few of the people who are

really into all of that in a big way and it is really amaz-

ing to hear the various ways that they try to manipulate

the technology, and in some cases to almost break the

technology, so that they can get a particular effect or

introduce a particular uncontrollable error into the sys-

tem. I think that idea is really interesting and there are

many parallels between that and both music and paint-

ing, particularly with abstract painting. But I think that

there is a danger that as time goes by what you might

call glitch art ends up being very empty and that the

images or works produced are seductively beautiful but

noting else, flat, pretty and empty. I think it is more in-

teresting when artists use those ideas, the possibilities

and that way of working and then transform it in some

way or else use it with a solid idea running through it. In

that way often we don't see or think of it is glitch art

any longer, it is simply a device or a by-product within

something else, it serves a greater purpose.

DPM: Is there anyone who has recently astonished you

in art?

EOD: Most recently an exhibition that grabbed me

was a show of paintings by the Romanian artist Adrian

Ghenie. Quite different work to what I would normally

gravitate towards but some of the most interesting

painting that I've seen in a long time. It's one of the

great things about living in a place like Berlin, the

amount of art that you get to see on a regular basis

and particularly for painting it is of course important to

see the work in the flesh instead of simply in books or

on the internet.