The Glasgow School of Art e-card is always one of the most hotly anticipated of Christmas greetings. Following James Houston’s take on The Carol of the Bells using obsolete computers in 2013 and Ross Hogg’s homage to Norman McLaren last year, this year’s offering has been created by Laurence Chan, a recent Master’s graduate in Sound for the Moving Image from the GSA’s Digital Design Studio.
A youngster sneaks downstairs to see what Santa has left under the tree. Opening a gift he is delighted to find an iPad, but on opening the box he gets a surprise.
See what happens here:
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Further information
Lesley Booth
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Notes for Editors
- In the film analogue video and VHS tape glitches serve as a platform for surrealism. The music has been edited to resemble CD skipping.
- Laurence Chan is a video artist with a background in sound design and composition. Audiovisual works maintain a strong focus in visual music, sound art and audioreactive visualisations. He is currently developing and exploring areas of glitch aesthetics in a synchronous audiovisual realm – utilising a fusion of both analog and digital glitching methods.