GLTCH RESOURCES

An example of glitch using ASDF Pixel short program by Kim Assendorf

Tutorials

General tutorials

These are tutorials that cover multiple techniques or serve as good general primers.

• DATAMOSHING : Imagebending [WordPad, Windows][Audacity, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• James Connolly’s Glitch Talk – good range of examples showing different types of glitches, and some historical context
• Daniel Temkin | Glitch Tutorials – a number of these tutorials I found through his site, so thank him!
• Glitch Art Resources | Phillip Stearns
• Digital Image File Types Explained

Hex / Text Editing

Use text or hex editors to edit the low-level data of a file and break it.

• Databending images with text editor « Audio Geek Zine [TextWrangler, Mac][Evernote Skitch]
• praseodyms way of databending v0.1 [Any hex editor and image editor]
• Glitch Art and Databending Primer – Part I: Hex Editing and You! [Any hex editor]
• Bending a penguin | Antonio Roberts (breaking vector files) [Any text editor]

Data-as-Sound Editing

Use audio editors to glitch out images by interpreting them as sound, either putting them back out into images or using them as “music”.

• databending and glitch art primer, part 2: sonification [Audacity / many others, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Databending using Audacity Effects [Audacity, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Databending Using Audacity | Antonio Roberts [Audacity, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Creative Sound Design: When Glitches Are A Good Thing | A Sound Effect[Audacity, Mac/Windows/Linux]

Datamoshing / Video Glitching

Alter or destroy frames of video with a variety of techniques.

• Datamoshing – The Beauty of Glitch [avidemux, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Explanation of video compression properties that enable datamoshing by thoven on reddit
• Broken Gif/Datamoshing Tutorial via /r/brokenanimegifs [Virtualdub, avidemux, ffdshow codec, Windows]
• Video Noizz-a very useless tutorial [Quartz Composer, Mac]
• what a difference- a very useless tutorial 2. [Quartz Composer, Mac]

3d Glitching

Glitching out 3d models with fascinating results. Typically requires a basic understanding of 3d modeling. (I don’t know a ton about this. Have a suggestion? Let me know!)

• 3d Glitching.. [Blender, Mac/Windows/Linux]

Miscellaneous Hackery / Resources

• lofi Rosa Menkman – A Vernacular of File Formats.pdf
• Glitch GIMP | Antonio Roberts [GIMP, Mac/Windows/Linux](command line, compiling software)
• databending and glitch art primer, part 1: the wordpad effect – this is a classic, but you need to use an old version of WordPad that only shipped with early WinXP computers. I’ve heard there is such a thing on the internet somewhere[WordPad, Windows]
• advanced wordpad editing explained [WordPad, Windows]
• cachemash #209: TUTORIAL – abusing an old version of Photoshop to glitch out truncated JPGs [Photoshop 6.0-, Windows XP?]
• Glitch Codec Tutorial – part art talk, part detailed tutorial, this walks you through the steps of using Nick Briz’s altered video codec to get glitched video. use the “download” link on this page to grab the .pdf [Mac/Windows/Linux (virtual machine)](command line)

Tools

Web Toys

• snorpey’s javascript experiments – neat things for manipulating the image in browser, including a glitch simulator
• Rutt-Etra-Izer – simulates a Rutt-Etra video synthesizer is. hard to explain, give it a shot.
• Delaunay Triangulations – labs.vieron.net – makes cool triangle effects on your images
• Fractal Lab – build 3d fractals in your browser, explore them, screenshot them
• ipooponyourart – alpha but cool image manipulator
• MOSH – image glitching tool with many common effects, can generate gifs!
• c64yourself(beta) – make an image look like it was created by a commodore 64
• Glitchy3bitDither – runs your image through a series of filtering functions
• pixelock – glitch/twist an image by running it through an encryption algorithm
• Glitcher – stack gif glitch effects to create a motion glitch gif
• SELFIE APOCALYPSE – glitch your face
• jpeg2wav – play a jpeg as sound
• @pixelsorter – I made this! tweet it a picture and it’ll sort the pixels
• bitmap sorter – throw an image into this and see the pixels drift
• Zalgo text generator – z͈̥̦̘̜̦̦al̢̳͖͓̝͙͇̳g̕o̻͜ ͏y̱̰̜͚̹ou̻̦̰̞̞̘̮r͙͍̹ ̣͎̜̬̹͟ţ͉̰͕͉̮̭͓é̤x̲́t̘͍̤̯̦͠

GUI Tools / Applications

• VoidGlitch – easy-to-use GUI tool that replicates common glitches (need a Dropbox account to download – will provide a mirror soon!) [free]
• GlitchSort2 – Paul Hertz’s Processing-based glitch tool [free]
• pixeldrifter – uses an interesting algorithm to “drift” pixels in an image in real time [trial]
• The Complete List of iOS Glitch Apps [varies]
• Hex Fiend – hex editor for Mac [free]
• HexEditor – hex editor for Windows [free]
• GIMP – cross-platform free image editor [free]
• Photoshop – you’ve heard of this one, right? [trial]
• Audacity – open source, free sound editor [Mac/Windows/Linux][free]
• GoldWave – professional digital audio editor [trial]
• Cycling ’74 Max – professional data “patching” software used to visually manipulate streams of data [trial]
• sculptris – introductory 3d modeling software [free]
• 3DS Max – professional – and expensive – 3d modeling software [trial]
• Blender – professional – and free – 3d modeling software [free]
• VirtualDub – video capturing/processing utility for Windows [free]
• avidemux – cross-platform video editing utility for basic editing and encoding – use version 2.5.6, as newer versions do not glitch properly [free]

Programmatic Tools / SDKs

• beamp – I made this! interpret any arbitrary file as a bmp image
• byebyte – I made this! destroy your files’ bytes for fun and glitch
• ffmpeg – multimedia video encoding / decoding framework often used to achieve glitch effects
• Processing – popular programming language and development environment for creating visual / generative art
• SoX – sound processing CLI utility
• Pure Data / Pd – open source visual programming language
• openFrameworks – open source C++ toolkit for creative coding
• vvvv – visual / textual live-programming environment for physical interfaces and real time motion grpahics
• GlitchTools – publicly available glitch art libraries, tools, and examples on GitHub
• AviGlitch – Ruby library for datamoshing AVI video
• William Woodruff’s glitch scripts: image-glitch, images-glitch, image-bork, and accompanying blog post

Glitch Aesthetic History and Articles

Learn more about the origins of glitch aesthetic and its ilk.

• The long, twisted history of glitch art
• The visual punk of glitch art
• There’s Not Much ‘Glitch’ In Glitch Art

Theory / Writings (Glitch and Related Media Art Topics)

• Jonas Downey “Glitch Art” – http://jonasdowney.com/workspace/uploads/writing/glitch-art-jonasdowney.pdf
• Daniel Temkin and Hugh Manon “Notes on Glitch” – http://worldpicturejournal.com/WP_6/Manon.html
• Daniel Temkin “Glitch && Human/Computer Interaction” – http://nooart.org/post/73353953758/temkin-glitchhumancomputerinteraction
• 2011 Gli.tc/H READER(ROR) – http://gli.tc/h/READERROR/GLITCH_READERROR_20111-v3BWs.pdf
• Rosa Menkman “Glitch Studies Manifesto” – http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2010/02/glitch-studies-manifesto.html
• Rosa Menkman “A Vernacular of File Formats” – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9054743/lofi%20Rosa%20Menkman%20-%20A%20Vernacular%20of%20File%20Formats.pdf
• Jason Irla “Databending Studies” – http://jasonirla.com/databending-studies-edition-001/
• Legacy Russell – Digital Dualism And The Glitch Feminism Manifesto
• Legacy Russell – Elsewhere, After the Flood: Glitch Feminism and the Genesis of Glitch Body Politic
• Iman Moradi “Glitch: Designing Imperfection” – http://www.amazon.com/Glitch-Designing-Imperfection-Iman-Moradi/dp/0979966663
• Mark Nunes “Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures” – http://books.google.com/books?id=ZyJeWYFaUEsC
• Jeff Donaldson – “Glossing Over Thoughts on Glitch” – http://artpulsemagazine.com/glossing-over-thoughts-on-glitch-a-poetry-of-error
• Rebecca Jackson – “The Glitch Aesthetic” – http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/80
• Peter Krapp – “Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture”
• Various Contributors “DeFunct / ReFunct” exhibition catalog – http://ruared.ie/Documents/defunct_refunct_catalogue_web.pdf
• Caleb Kelly “Cracked Media” – http://www.amazon.com/Cracked-Media-Malfunction-Caleb-Kelly/dp/0262013142/
• Kim Cascone “The Aesthetics of Failure” – http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/comj/cmj24_4cascone.pdf
• Kim Cascone “Errormancy: Glitch as Divination” – http://theendofbeing.com/2012/04/19/errormancy-glitch-as-divination-a-new-essay-by-kim-cascone/
• Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver “The Mathematical Theory of Communication” – http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Theory-Communication-Claude-Shannon/dp/0252725484/
• Marshal McLuhan – “Understanding Media”
• Margit Rosen “A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961–1973” –http://www.amazon.com/Little-Known-Movement-Magazine-Computers-Arrival/dp/0262515814/
• Friedrich Kittler – “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter” and “Discourse Networks”
• Douglas Kahn – “Noise, Water, Meat”
• Mark B.N Hansen – “New Philosophy for New Media”

Glitch Communities

• Glitchet Facebook Page – well, uh, obviously.
• Glitch Artists Collective Facebook Group
• Glitch//Request Facebook Group – get your images glitched!
• Cyberpunk Science Fiction & Culture Facebook Group
• FREE THE PIXELS! Facebook Group – find and share open source digital art for loving and remuxing
• /r/glitch_art – glitch art subreddit
• /r/proceduralgeneration – cool dynamically generated art and games
• /r/futurology – futurologist megasub

Textiles + Glitches/Electronics:

• Andrew Whealy
• Hannah Perner-Wilson – Weaving Conductive Fabric | Making of… | Outcome
• Jeff Donaldson’s Glitchaus
• Melissa Baron
• Nukeme
• Peter Struycken
• Phillip Stearns’s Glitch Textiles

Glitch Artists

http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php/Glitch_artists

• Kim Asendorf
• Beflix (Ant Scott)
• Paul Hertz
• Rosa Menkman
• Jessica Westbrook
• Scott Fitzgerald
• Anton Marini
• Daniel Temkin
• Jon Satrom
• Nick Briz
• Jon Cates
• A Bill Miller
• Glitchr (tumblr/twitter)
• Jeff Donaldson
• Nullsleep (Jeremiah Johnson)
• Anthony Antonellis
• LoVid (related)
• Year of the Glitch
• Pixelnoizz
• (Я) RECYCLISM (Benjamin Gaulon)
• Evan Meaney
• Billy Roisz
• Kyle McDonald
• Kyle Evans
• Morgan Higby-Flowers
• UCNV
• JODI
• Joseph Nechvatal
• Arcangel Constantini
• Mario De Vega
• Victor Mazon
• Jorge Crowe
• Nicolas Collins
• Corey Arcangel
• Karl Klomp
• Gijs Gieskes
• Nam June Paik
• Yoshi Sodeoka
• Takeshi Murata
• Paul B. Davis
• Jehad Nga – The Green Book Project
• http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/01/09/melanie_willhide_to_adrian_rodriguez_with_love_photos.html

 

Tumblr:

• S̶h͟are͢ ҉Gli̶tc̴h – http://shareglitch.tumblr.com/
• Crime Mob – http://newvisiontechnology.tumblr.com/
• Adam Ferriss – http://adamferriss.tumblr.com/
• Miyo Van Stenis – http://miyovanstenis.tumblr.com/
• Jason Irla – http://call-me-mister.tumblr.com/
• Glitch Gifs – http://glitchgifs.tumblr.com/
• Kim Asendorf – http://kimasendorf.tumblr.com/
• Glitch-Hop – http://glitch-hop.tumblr.com/
• Glitchee – http://glitchee.tumblr.com/
• Glitch News – http://glitchnews.tumblr.com/
• Glitchtheory – http://glitchtheory.tumblr.com/
• Max Capacity – http://maxcapacity.tumblr.com/
• A. Bill Miller – http://abillmiller.tumblr.com/
• Stallio (Benjamin Berg) – http://stallio.tumblr.com/
• Surrogate-Self – http://surrogate-self.com/
• Food Mosh – http://foodmosh.tumblr.com/
• Something Funny is Happening – http://somethingfunnyishappening.tumblr.com/
• Rumblesan – http://rumblesan.tumblr.com/
• Gift3d – http://g1ft3d.com/
• Mesmeon – http://mesmeon.tumblr.com/
• Notendo (Jeff Donaldson) – http://notendo.tumblr.com/
• Capsule 9 – http://capsule9.tumblr.com/
• Zon Wakest – http://wakest.info/tagged/glitch
• Matthew Williamson – http://matthew-williamson.tumblr.com/

Glitch Music

• Yasunao Tone – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunao_Tone
• MEGO record Label – http://editionsmego.com/
• Mille Plateaux – http://milleplateaux1.wordpress.com/

Further Reading

• On Data Visualization – http://www.formfollowsbehavior.com/2007/09/17/artistic-data-based-visualization/
• Ludwig Wittgenstein – “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, “Lectures and Conversations” and “Zettel”
• Giorgio Agamben – “Infancy and History”
• Raymond Williams – “Culture and Materialism” and “The Politics of Modernism”
• Jean Baudrillard – “The System of Objects”, “Simulacra and Simulation” and “The Conspiracy of Art”
• Paul Virilio – “Pure War”, “The Politics of the Very Worst”, “Information Bomb” and “Open Sky”
• Alain Badiou – “Metapolitics”
• DeLeuze and Guattari – “Anti-Oedipus” and “A Thousand Plateaus”
• Jean-Francois Lyotard – “The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge”
• Rudy Rucker – “Infinity and the Mind”
• Jeremy Campbell – “Grammatical Man”
• John Cage – “Silence”
• Various contributors, edited by Steven L. Goldman – “Science, Technology, and Social Progress”
• Various contributors, edited by Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Steven L. Goldman, Manuel Medina, and Jose Sanmartin – “New Worlds, New Technologies, New Issues”
• Karl Mannheim – “Ideology and Utopia”

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