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Rosa Menkman (Arnhem, 3 April 1983) is a Dutch theorist, curator and visual artist specialized in glitch art.

Studies
Rosa Menkman graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a Master of Arts (New Media, 2006) and a Research Master of Arts (Media Studies, 2009). During her studies, she became acquainted with the work of Jodi, a Belgian-Dutch artist duo who exploit the weaknesses of digital technology in their art projects. Menkman wrote a master thesis about Jodi's work UNTITLED GAME, an artistic mod of the computer game Quake. From October 2009 she works on a Ph.D at Goldsmiths College, London.

Glitch art
After she finished her master thesis, Rosa Menkman decided to research artists who use instabilities and errors in software as the basis for visual work. Music based upon software errors was already described as glitch music by, among others, Kim Cascone. Menkman broadened the artistic concept of glitch by also applying the term to the visual arts.

In her writings, Menkman has described the historical roots of glitch in art. According to her, the glitch 'method' already occurred on celluloid by filmmaker Len Lye, in the video art of Nam June Paik and in the digital art of Cory Arcangel. Also, Menkman describes the various software bugs that are used for glitch art and outlines the work of contemporary glitch artists. Menkman herself is mentioned as glitch theorist in several academic publications.

The Glitch Moment(um) and the Glitch Studies Manifesto
In 2011, Menkmans research about this recent art genre was published as the book The Glitch Moment(um) at the University of Amsterdam, by the Institute of Network Cultures. She also wrote the Glitch Studies Manifesto in the same year. This manifesto was awarded as 'best practice' by Virtueel Platform, then sector institute for e-culture in the Netherlands.

GLI.TC/H festival
The publication of The Glitch Moment(um) coincided with the GLI.TC/H festival, organized by Rosa Menkman together with American artists Nick Briz and Jon Satrom. The first GLI.TC/H festival in 2010 (Chicago) was followed by a second and third edition in 2011 (Chicago, Amsterdam, Birmingham) and 2012 (Chicago).

Work (selection)

 * Radio Dada (2010), a video created through a feedback loop. Collaboration with musician Extraboy.
 * The Collapse of PAL (2010), video performance, a homage to Phase Alternating Line or PAL, a disappearing standard for analog TV broadcasting.

Exhibitions and presentations (selection)
Rosa Menkman has curated several international exhibitions of other artists' work.

Furthermore, she regularly moderates symposia and works as a VJ at festivals. Her own work has been shown, among others, in:


 * Utrecht, 2011, solo A Vernacular of File Formats during the Nederlands Film Festival
 * Vienna, 2011, solo Collapse of PAL, Quartier 21
 * Brescia, 2011, solo Order and Progress, Gallery Fabio Paris
 * Lodz, 2010, solo The Tipping Point of Failure, Galeria NT