Code Art, Progrmaming, JavaScript, Interactive Art, and Glitch Art.
Artist Statement
As a digital media artist, I have vast knowledge in many types of mediums in the digital realm. But the main medium I like to work with is web art specifically combining web design with glitch art. My style of work is close to what abstract artists would do but in this instance in web design. I prefer to make work that looks interesting and has no meaning to it, something that will catch someone's attention or keep them looking through the website. As I have started learning more about web design, I have also gotten fascinated in interactive art through websites. Growing up I played many video games and because of this it has made me want to make work where people can interact with it. Not specifically games but web art that will get someone hooked to explore the website. In video games there is something called an “Easter Egg” where players look around to uncover secrets. I want to have this same feeling but through a website in the future. Web art is perfect for this because as technologies advance so does the medium and new art will come out of it. For the meantime glitching work in my eyes has been one of the ways where it can catch someone’s eyes and be interested in the art. I want my art to abstract and to get people to interact with it. As we move forward with technology many artworks are going to be more accessible and I want my art to be like that from the start.
Artist Bio
Jorge Jimenez is a web artist that likes to focus on making interactive web art through programming languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Currently he is pursuing his BFA in Digital Media Arts at San Jose State University. Growing up he was fascinated with the interaction with video games, he wants to bring that same type of interaction but within a website. With the internet getting easier to access, putting interactive work on a website will be easier for his audience to interact with his art. As he learned to code, he became fascinated by manipulating the code to make something abstract on a website. He is currently working in abstract art, specifically something that looks like a glitch, combining his skills with web art and glitch art to make something abstract on a website. Other areas of expertise are in 3D modeling, illustrating, and many other types of digital mediums. He intends to keep making work that will have his audience interact with and be immersed in his art.
Project Description
AbstractiveGltch is an interactive website where the users can actively interact with an image to make it abstract through different types of interactivities. It will include different types of glitches where the user will be able to engage with throughout the website. The user will have the ability to change how an image looks through mouse or key inputes implemented by the coder. The website will have a gallery of glitched images that will also be interactable with, these images were picked because of the uniqueness of color and location. In our world there are places and objects that stand out, combining those two main traits of an image and integrating a glitch or abstraction, it creates an array of luminous colors and distortion of the image. I have always been fascinated with glitching or abstracting images and all sorts of other things, so I wanted to create a project where it allowed me to do that while at the same time allowing other people to experience it themselves.
