A trans historiography of glitches and errors

Whitney Whit Pow

doi:10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.197

A trans historiography of glitches and errors

Whitney Whit Pow

Media, Culture & Communication

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Abstract

In 1978, queer and transgender programmer Jamie Faye Fenton created the first piece of experimental video glitch art, Digital TV Dinner, using the Bally Astrocade, a home computer and game console of her own design that was, for six months, the cheapest home computer available. Digital TV Dinner stands as a record of computational failure: it was created by Fenton through a pointed misuse of the computer system that caused the screen to dissolve into waves of pixelated glitches.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	197-230
Number of pages	34
Journal	Feminist Media Histories
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.197
State	Published - Jan 1 2021

Keywords

Bally Astrocade
Digital TV Dinner
Digital media
Experimental video
Glitch art
Jamie Faye Fenton
Queer theory
Software studies
Transgender studies
Videogame studies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Gender Studies
History

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