Rob Sheridan’s signature glitch art aesthetic style, driven by the quirks and constraints of early 2000s digital tech, exploits imperfections like compression artifacts and data corruption to meticulously dissect damaged hardware and video files, seeking beauty in unconventional methods through both digital and analog glitch art.

 

His glitch aesthetic spans various styles and mediums, born from hands-on experimentation with consumer hardware. Conceived alongside his collaborative processes with Trent Reznor, Sheridan embraces the unpredictability of malfunctioning scanners, printers, and DV tapes. He sees hardware flaws as collaborators, offering a liberating lack of control.

 

On his continuing journey into the glitch universe, Sheridan infuses the same experimental ethos into damaged VHS tapes and aging CRT television sets. Drawing from the textures of his youth—flickering TV screens, worn-out VCRs, and scrambled cable visuals—he transforms them into tools for crafting dark, psychedelic landscapes pulsating with eerie electro-organic warmth. In his hands, flickering CRTs become the yellowed parchment of the television age, each glitch a ghost in his captivating visual narrative.