Squarepusher - Terminal Slam

What this video is

Released January 2020 as a single from Squarepusher's fifteenth album 'Be Up A Hello' on Warp Records, 'Terminal Slam' and its music video sit at the intersection of two distinct cultural anxieties of the late 2010s/early 2020s: the saturation of urban space by corporate advertising, and the approaching ubiquity of AI and augmented reality. Director Daito Manabe leveraged Rhizomatiks' media-art research…

Why it matters

A landmark document of post-IDM audiovisual art, 'Terminal Slam' represents the maturation of glitch aesthetics into a machine-learning-native production paradigm. Where earlier glitch music videos relied on manual or analog signal disruption, this work automates aesthetic intervention through AI…

The director

Daito Manabe is a Japanese digital artist, programmer, DJ, and interaction designer, and one of the founders and directors of Tokyo-based collective Rhizomatiks. His practice spans interactive installation, live performance visuals, and music video…