Dawnia Darkstone (b. 1990) is a queer, trans new-media artist and curator best known as Letsglitchit. For more than a decade she has bent pixels, ripped codecs, and rewired hardware to turn digital decay into visual poetry. Her glitch-forward practice spans databending, sonification, circuitbent cameras, and custom tools that invite everyone to “break stuff beautifully.”
Dawnia’s work has flashed across Times Square, Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing, Sotheby’s Glitch: Beyond Binary sale, and Christie’s. She co-administers the 50k-strong Glitch Artists Collective, curates exhibitions foregrounding queer and neurodivergent voices, and shares open tutorials that helped seed a new generation of glitch experimenters.
When not corrupting data, she is coding creative tools, wandering botanical gardens with her partner Aspen, and championing technology that keeps art strange and accessible.
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- 2023 · Co-curator and exhibiting artist, Glitch: Beyond Binary, Sotheby’s
- 2023 · Times Square and Shibuya Crossing public billboard takeovers
- 2022 · Sold with Avant Arte, Digital Chemicals
- 2017–22 · Regular featured artist, FU:BAR Glitch Art Festival, Zagreb
- 2016 · Residency, Signal Culture, New York
- 2014–present · Published widely shared glitch-art tutorials and featured in VICE