Ggglitch?:
Fracturing Gender, Identity, & Materiality in Internet Aesthetics
WhatsGlitch.com is my thesis project—a speculative digital archive and narrative experiment that explores glitch, fragmentation, and digital memory through both form and content. The site operates as a layered, intentionally unstable experience where users navigate a collection of fictional and found materials that blur the line between coherence and collapse.
This project examines glitches as both errors and meaningful disruptions in digital systems. It discusses how glitches function as aesthetic, political, and philosophical phenomena, questioning the stability of digital media and interfaces.
Through a mix of interactive design, fragmented narratives, and intentional distortions, WhatsGlitch.com challenges conventional user expectations, turning interface instability into a storytelling mechanism. The project is framed within critical theories of technology, digital decay, and media archaeology, investigating how glitches expose the hidden structures of digital spaces.
The site itself operates as a nonlinear archive, inviting users to navigate broken pathways, corrupted data, and shifting visual elements that blur the boundary between malfunction and meaning. By embracing error as a form of expression, WhatsGlitch.com serves as both a critique and an artistic exploration of digital fragility, control, and perception.
Inspired by ideas of technological decay, media archaeology, and nonlinear storytelling, I designed WhatsGlitch.com to question how we construct meaning in digital spaces. The interface itself becomes part of the story: broken links, flickering text, and hidden pathways reflect the project’s themes of loss, distortion, and the haunting presence of the “almost-knowable.”
Key features:
- Custom-coded interface with dynamic elements that glitch, shift, and erode over time.
- Multi-modal storytelling combining visuals, audio, text fragments, and interactive triggers.
- Designed as a nonlinear archive, encouraging exploration and interpretation over linear reading.
- Built to be experienced, not just viewed—challenging conventional notions of UX as purely functional.
This project embodies my approach to design as critical and expressive—a way of building meaning through interaction, visual language, and conceptual coherence. WhatsGlitch.com is not just a site—it’s a world that unravels as you move through it.
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