VB48 - Glitch Avatar Pride Parade - I Rez, Therefore I Am

Glitch = Life?

Is a glitch a mistake? Like,

Oh, we had clean video for a while, but now it’s all glitchy.

Or is a glitch postmodern freedom? Freedom from the tyranny of modernism’s unforgiving pursuit of perfection. Mies van der Rohe appealed for a clean, controlled world in his famous, “Less is more.” Was Robert Venturi’s riposte a plea for a messy, complex, glitchy world?

Less is a bore.

You saw Star Trek: Into Darkness, right? That was Kahn’s problem. He was all oldschool modernist perfection, like

You don’t fit into my utopia – I kill you all!

As Spock moves from being obsessed with The Prime Directive to the glitchy messiness of experiencing Admiral Pike’s death, he comes to understand a more complex, more inclusive, less “perfect” world.

In VB48 we celebrate our glitchiness. In VB48 we celebrate uncertainty. In VB48 we celebrate indeterminacy. In VB48 we celebrate chaotic noise. In VB48 we celebrate the grain of chaotic sand that makes possible our future cultural pearls.

VB48 – Glitch Avatar Pride Parade

Virtual Amsterdam
23 February 2013

Apmel Goosson
Gina Broono
Monerda Skute
Pixel Reanimator
Trilby Minotaur
Vanessa Blaylock
& Unidentified Prostitute / Terrorist

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My glitchy exoskeleton vibrates as I walk down a path in Virtual Amsterdam

VB48: Glitch Avatar Pride Parade route around the sims of Virtual Amsterdam

We met up at the parade step off point at Gallery Xue / Amsterdam

Moni looking all Moni in her before image

Apmel & Trilby

Gallery Xue / Amsterdam

As we stepped off this woman walked by, so we decided to let her be our unofficial, or “unaware” parade leader.

We followed her into a central courtyard in Virtual Amsterdam

I don’t recall, but I think she actually worked in the Amsterdam Red Light District. Maybe her group title said something about that.

The Glitch Avatar Pride Parade with our accidental parade leader the Amsterdam prostitute.

Only I guess she wasn’t really a prostitute, but a terrorist! She exploded a huge bomb right there in the middle of the park and sort of blew us all to bits! Haha, so I guess she WAS part of the Glitch Avatar Pride Parade after all!