Digital TV Breakfast
I am the sole designer and artist of a video game titled Digital TV Breakfast, which is a commissioned art piece tied to the Chicago art exhibition, Chicago New Media 1973-1992. The exhibition is curated by School of the Art Institute of Chicago Associate Professor Jon Cates with assistance from the Video Game Art Gallery’s Director of Exhibitions and Programs Chaz Evans and Executive Director Jonathan Kinkley.. The game itself was made in Unity.
Digital TV Breakfast was exhibited at Gallery 400 in Chicago as well as in the international new media art festival, Ars Electronica 2019 in Linz, Austria as a part of the art exhibition Chicago New Media 1973-1992.
I created Digital TV Breakfast in response to game designer Jamie Faye Fenton’s foundational 1978 glitch art piece titled Digital TV Dinner, made with Raul Zaritsky and Dick Ainsworth. The original artwork was made using a home video game console, the Bally Astrocade, which creates a beautiful display of glitch images upon “banging it with your fist.” In Digital TV Breakfast, I consider the ways that this art piece re-focuses the history of digital glitch and new media art in everyday, home spaces and its intersection with histories of transgender media and game design.
