Rosa Menkman is an artist and researcher from the Netherlands. Her work focuses on noise artifacts that result from accidents and glitches in both analogue and digital media. She believes that the results of these accidents offer important insights into the otherwise obscure alchemy of “standardization via resolutions,” which is a process that generally imposes efficiency, order, and functionality on our technologies. This process of standardization does not just involve the creation of protocols and solutions, but also entails the obfuscation and black-boxing of alternative possibilities—which, as a result, are in danger of being forgotten or forever unseen. Through her research, which is both practice-based and theoretical, she intends to uncover these anti-utopic, lost, and unseen or simply “too good to be implemented” resolutions as a way to understand, use, and perceive the world through our technologies.
