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By reading these glitches as meaningful occurrences and not errors, it becomes possible to pull out the hidden and obscured signals that are overlooked and abandoned, focusing on the process of mediation, the channels between humans and machines, and the breakdowns in these transmissions. A practice of reading and analyzing glitches offers an opportunity to reorient our understanding of aesthetics, digital mediation, and the construction of the human within digital environments. Bridging the work of material text studies, critical network theory, and media theories that analyze systems of media through the specificity of their formats and file types, I argue that the variations in format are not only significant in their specificity and comparative qualities, but the very activity of remediating itself produces transformations in a work of art and its cultural resonance. The proliferation of file types, formats, and interfaces are not distinct isolated variations, but a continuing process of mediation. Each reproduction and processing-event leaves traces of mediation on medium-reflexive works that can be read. This type of reading, what I am calling glitch reading, focuses on the materiality of glitches found in the interplay between the aesthetic, cultural, and technical dynamics of remediated texts and changing media. Glitch reading is a practice of extracting meaning from the noise, parsing out the implications of the texts and textures that reverberate through mediation, revealing the integration of humans in and through digital technology.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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