Phillip McConnell is an artist from Trenton, New Jersey, whose focus is on abstract, surrealist digital artwork called Glitch Art – the aesthetic of digital errors, created by corrupting the data of pictures. He uses varying techniques and different coding languages. With all his work, he seeks to inspire and create art that resonates with his audience’s thoughts and feelings they may not know how to express. He wants them to see his work and to see themselves in it. He wants people to see that thinking abstractly or discussing emotions within art should be a normal thing for a black creative and that trauma is not the only theme within their work. His process involves converting picture files into text files using a basic program called Notepad ++. Using the text file within the program he manually manipulates the data of the picture by adding or subtracting colour codes and by taking pieces of other pictures and blending them with each other. Once he has distorted an image enough, he combines them using the notepad program and exports the text file as a JPG picture file and prints it on gallery-wrapped canvas.

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