(scary music) - [Narrator] There nothing wrong with your television set.

Do not attempt to adjust the depiction.

We are controlling the transmission.

- Oh boy, what is glitch art?

Glitch art is intentionally corrupting technology to make art strapping a magnet to an old TV, tricking a computer into thinking an image is a sound.

It's a lot like tech-based art that's about destruction and kind of chaos but giving a little order to it sometimes.

(techno music) - [Interviewer] But where are we?

What is this place?

- Oh, whoa.

Yeah, this is my grandmother's house.

She passed away about two decades ago.

I grew up here and at my mom's house across the street in Wood Lake, Minnesota.

But then I also spent every summer in Malibu, California with my dad, going from a town of 300 to Los Angeles being 3 million was kind of a large culture shock for me in a lot of ways.

I made art an actual intention for my life in about 2015 when I got accepted for a glitch art exhibit in Krakow, Poland.

It was awesome.

It was so cool meeting a lot of people.

Most of our community is only online.

We have a community about like 80,000 people.

It's like a Facebook group and we just kind of like talk about different techniques and stuff.

So a lot of these people have known from around the world but none of us had ever met each other in person for like years.

And then finally they met a lot of those people.

For me, glitch art it's kind of a way to deal with mental sort of things.

Life can feel sort of chaotic or anxious or something.

You're getting a moment of chaos but you're giving it some sort of definition.

Working in glitch art a lot got me into a lot of general forms of digital art.

I think my brain is just so kind of all over, but then when I'm just sitting in Photoshop and kind of zoomed up to the Pixel, it's sort of meditative practice just to be able to kind of like okay, all I gotta do is just cut out this dude's leg and I can just do that for an hour.

And it's like there's a little moment of like peace sort of, which is nice.

Beyond individual artistic works that I do I do a lot of live performance too.

A lot of DJing and live video work.

Dragon Burlesque for me, were kind of doing those shows, were my bread and butter for live events a lot of times.

I DJ at gay bars most weekends for like half a decade.

Burlesque shows too, I would actually play with video effects as if they were, like an instrument or something.

People could actually kind of see, the feedback moving like in tune with break dancers or something like that.

So a lot of the things that I do are dependent on large groups of people.

If I was 20 years old trying to beat a DJ out here it'd be very difficult.

But so much of surf society and connectedness through internet has changed.

And so seeing a lot of people, especially in their thirties and forties starting to kind of look for a slower pace of life, but they still enjoy a lot of city life and we're able to kind of slowly build out some of the things that we enjoyed from the city out here.

But without coming in and being like, okay we're only listening to techno for eight hours straight.

(soft music) Rural life is a very complicated thing.

I love it.

It can also be painful and isolating at times.

I'm really passionate about the beauty of the prairie because oftentimes people will come out here and they're saying, I'm going to the woods because so often they're used to going to Duluth or Northern Minnesota, which are all beautiful places.

But the beauty of the prairie is really a slow burn.

- The perfect climbing tree.

- The beauty of marrying someone else who is an outrageously talented artist and professional is we both understand when we need space but then we're also very aware of when we need someone else to be with.

And cause sometimes you get lost and you need your partner there to help you through and be like, Hey, you're doing okay.

I see it.

So that's why I love Jesse Henon.

Ed, come here.

Come on Ed, don't dilly, get up here.

Okay.

There.

I guess one of the things I love living on the farm most partly because I do so many different things.

A lot of times it feels like a canvas to work with.

You know, we can build a bar in this old building we can make a stage here, I can mow in this pattern and it looks kind of cool.

I also really love the pace of life, some of the stress of being like, I wake up I gotta go right now and do this and do that and do this, there's still work but it's a little more relaxing at times.

Instead of waking up next to a freeway which I was for a while.

(soft music)