Glitch Stitch,

An ongoing artistic and research project started in 2022.

Glitch Stitch considers the digital pattern square. Our worlds are siphoned to 1:1 pixels; yet, when these punitive squares converge, illuminated in their liquified crystalline display is nothing short of an endless and vast expanse.

Project Statement

Often denigrated to the status of ‘soft craft’ rather than its own art form, quilt work drifts quietly through our minds to the designation of domesticity. Though requiring advanced skill and training, craftworks have often fallen into a ‘folk art’ category or have been viewed as different or even lesser than artworks such as painting or sculpture. Yet, their history is rich; American quilts were borne out of necessity and a refusal to waste. Piecing together scraps, patching or mending worn pieces, and layering the old with recycling, their warmth meant survival. Survival through cold winters, survival through pestilence, and survival of tradition taught through generations, and with each stitch, imbued resilience. Quilts have long been the subject of gender dynamics, but have also been created as acts of resistance (see: AIDS Quilt, Native American quilting tradition).

Combining live video mixing, video jockey, and video editing techniques with machine learning, the artist and tech work together to analyze, and abstract, patterns found throughout westernized canonical art history. A method of research but also critique and re-appropriation. The idea of a "lesser art" or "womanly craft" is sharply underscored here. Originally showcased on OBJKT and minted on the Tezos blockchain, the work draws attention not only to race and gender imbalances in the art world but also to the stark reality that AFAB, and especially trans women, artists account for only a small fraction of NFT sales across major markets.

A. Morgan McKendry

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2022

Project Update

Once MP4 video files, I have further cut and distilled these works. Slicing them into additional iterations and converting them into looping GIFS. A method that compresses into a grainy aesthetic quality; something with more fringe. The intention through this process is to align more closely to quiltmaking techniques, even though I am working digitally.

/AMM—2025

See also: Guerrilla Girls (1985 - now), Suzanne Lacy’s The Crystal Quilt (1985-87), Woman House (1972)