Dawnia Darkstone (b. 1990) is a queer, trans new-media artist and curator best known as Letsglitchit. For more than a decade she’s 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 web 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 seeded a new generation of glitch experimenters. When not corrupting data she’s coding browser toys, strolling botanical gardens with her partner Aspen, and championing tech that keeps art accessible.
Selected Highlights
- • 2023 Co-curator & exhibiting artist – Glitch: Beyond Binary, Sotheby’s
- • 2023 Times Square & Shibuya Crossing public billboard takeovers
- • 2022 Sold-out edition with Avant Arte – Digital Chemicals
- • 2017-22 Regular featured artist – FU:BAR Glitch Art Festival, Zagreb
- • 2016 Residency – Signal Culture, New York
- • 2014- Published some of the web’s first widely-shared glitch art tutorials and feafured in VICE magazine