Rosa menkman biography

Biography.
Rosa Menkman (born 1983) is a Dutch art theorist, curator, and visual artist specialising in glitch art and resolution theory.
Rosa Menkman born April 3, 1983, in Arnhem, NL, is an art theorist, curator, glitch artist and visual artist based in Amsterdam, NL.

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I am grateful to have received a basis stipend from the Mondriaan Fund (2018-2021) and just recently: 2023 - 2027!
This website was made possible with the financial support of the Stimuleringsfonds.nl (2018)

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and researcher of resolutions.

The journey of her protagonist, the Angel of History—inspired by Paul Klee’s 1920 monoprint, Angelus Novus, and conceptualized by Walter Benjamin in 1940—functions as a foundational framework for her explorations of image technology.

In her narrative, the journey of the Angel cuts through a landscape covered in piles of obsolete technology, stifled by trade-offs, and obscured by standard settings. As the Angel navigates this endless spiral of digital 'advancements', her story probes an ecology of resolutions, examining the trade-offs between functionality and compromise in the fields of image processing.

In her written research, Rosa focuses on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analog and digital media. As a compendium to this research, she published Glitch Moment/um (

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Panelists

Rosa Menkman

Resolution Theorist

Rosa Menkman, DCT:Syphoning, 2015-17. Courtesy of the artist.

Rosa Menkman, A Vernacular of File Formats, 2010 and 2017. Installation view, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Courtesy of the artist.

Rosa Menkman began her inquiry into the data structures that shape the sensory form of digital media by cracking open, modifying, and breaking image and video files. Deepening this inquiry into the physical and technical basis of perception and meaning, Menkman produces works of video and animation that both demonstrate the structure of data formats and narrativize their historical and lived repercussions. In the context of the “Unfolding Models” panel, Menkman’s work challenges us to look for the glitches at the edges of theory as they appear in the computational substrate of model making.

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Symposium Schedule

Panel: Unfolding Models
Video Release: Friday, April 2, 2021 / 9:00am EST

Live Q&A: Monday,

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Rosa Menkman

Rosa Menkman
BornApril 3, 1989
NationalityDutch, Belgium
Rosa Menkman

Biography

Rosa Menkman is Dutch based artist, theorist and curator specialized in the errors and accidents produced from visual artifacts. These artifacts consist of "glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise". ^[1] Menkman integrates her academic and leisure practices centralizing her study on glitch ecologies. ^[2]

History of Menkman's Work

Menkman completed her studies in Master of Arts (New Media, 2006) and Research Master of Arts (Media Studies, 2009) both at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. During her studies in 2007, she began to explore artifacts of sound and video emphasizing her progression with performance and static art. ^[3]

The Glitch Moment(um)

In 2011, Menkman’s specificity in the genre and foundations of glitch art was issued as a book, The Glitch Moment(um) (published by The Institute of Network Cultures). The book makes sense of recent glitch art and culture: "technically, culturally, critically and aesthetically