Alexander Van Glitch

Digital Art as Antidote to Homo Digitalis 

​Alexander Van Glitch is my digital alter ego, created in 2017 to explore imperfection as a generative force. In contrast to the polished aesthetics of digital hyperrealism, the project embraces error, fragmentation, and glitch as critical tools.

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A counter-aesthetic

Working within the field of mobile art, I use only a smartphone as my creative tool.
Techniques like pixelation, triangulation, and distortion are applied to break down the image and disrupt its meaning. Figures dissolve, hybridize, and disappear into black voids — flat surfaces that evoke the emptiness and isolation of the present.
Each image becomes a visual short circuit between the organic and the digital, the human and the artificial.

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Homo Digitalis

​Alexander Van Glitch reflects on the figure of Homo Digitalis: hyperconnected, overstimulated, but increasingly disoriented.
My work questions this condition, challenging the primacy of the human mind in a world governed by algorithms, screens, and simulations.
Introspection gives way to reaction. Identity fragments into visual loops.

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Series and visions

The project unfolds through several thematic series: Contemporary Icons, Nudes, Contemporary Sacred, Abstracta Chromatica.
Each explores a different aspect of hybrid identity, inviting viewers to confront their own reflection in a glitch-distorted mirror.