When playing at hide-and-seek, the "home base" ("tana", in Italian) is the place where everything starts and everything ends, but above all it is the key to free all the players that were caught ("tana libera tutti!", shouts the last player still not caught, "home base, freedom for all!"). In the glitch, in the Error, I find a special way to escape from the constraints. The glitch enters in the supposed perfection of digital art to bring it back to a human level, it’s my home base! This work contains several levels of remixing: the original artwork by Hackatao was initially edited by generating a first level of contamination, revealing the eyes of the blindfolded lady and her aura, a crazy amount of glitchy bits of freedom ready to drip. Then, this first level was dissected and loaded on three mobile devices, which were repeatedly lashed, physically, transforming the textures created by the liquid crystal into a sort of digital blood. There is no violence in this action, it was necessary to bring out those sparks of freedom. It was like freeing everyone, even the blindfolded one, no longer blind, she was begging me to be freed. Physical and metaphysical, real and virtual, rational and esoteric, were brought together through the glitchy aesthetics. Tana libera tutti!

Techniques: video editing, post production, broken smartphones, performed actions Original sound design by Vincenzo Scorza as BLΛCK7EVEN.

This artwork is part of the HACKATAO REMIX ME project [https://hackatao.com/remixme]