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During the last ten minutes of the World Cup match between Switzerland and Bosnia-Herzegovina, I unexpectedly witnessed a flurry of beautiful glitches. It was like being part of a meteor shower.

A glitch in a live stream connects us to a reality beyond our horizon, pointing towards a greater cosmos that influences the confined infrastructure in which we live. Just as falling stars become visible for a moment, becoming symbols of worlds beyond our imagination, the glitch appears similarly in the context of digital live streams.

When watching a football game on the other side of the world via a VPN-accessible streaming site in the more dubious parts of the internet, it remains a mystery what caused the glitch.

Inverting the perception of the glitch means its visual form becomes the stable element, with the football live stream interfering with the glitch's abstract digital reality. This creates an ongoing tension between the abstract and the figurative that never resolves.