For this glitch I was inspired by a section of the interview with Legacy Russell where she talks about asking different people to define what a body is and how she would get wildly different definitions. This reminded me of my own experience reading Glitch Feminism where Legacy uses the term a lot to refer to people. Before Glitch Feminism when I heard the word body I thought only of the flesh and blood that makes us up IRL. This is part of why I choose this image, because of how it highlighted the physical shape of my own body. But that changed with my reading and comprehension of Glitch Feminism. I began to consider the body as more than just the physical it is also their identities and can extend into online space as well. This glitch is about challenging my previous ideas of what the body is and showing there is more to it than IRL.
With this glitch I wanted to focus on identity. So, I choose a picture of my face which to me really incapsulates my identity and relates to previous ideas about what a body is. On one hand I think back to Glitch Feminism once again. And the idea of identities online and how they are given new space to exist and grow. It also reminds me of an idea I have come back to several times in this class and that is the idea of the anonymous online identity. With this glitch I wanted to think about how we obscure ourselves online with identities of our own creation and how those created identities reflect on our identity as a whole.
For this glitch I once again was thinking about bodies and identity. I liked this image for how I was presented in it. It is an aspect of myself that I rarely show and is even more rarely gets captured in photo. But still, it represents an aspect of my identity. I also like it for how it shows so many different bodies doing so many different things. It once again speaks to me about what a body can be and how it can present itself. With this glitch I wanted to show the bodies in a new way. I wanted them to be fused together and mismatched to further push the idea of what a body can be and where one body ends and another begins.