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Today’s Agenda

  1. Glitch Art
    1. What is Glitch Art
    2. File Formats & Compression
    3. Opening Images As Text
    4. Opening Images As Audio
  • Lab Time
    • 30 Minutes Focused: Create glitch art using Audacity
    • Embed them into your websites
    • Individual Check-ins

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What is a Glitch?

  • Every computer error is a miscommunication between the computer and the user.
  • A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system, such as a transient fault that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot.

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What is Glitch Art?

  • Glitch art is an artform that uses the aesthetic of errors and data being corrupted, broken or misinterpreted.�
  • “Glitch art is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.” -wikipedia

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Glitch Studies Manifesto (PDF)

https://amodern.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2010_Original_Rosa-Menkman-Glitch-Studies-Manifesto.pdf

Rosa Menkman, 2009

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CSS Scrambler (Bookmarklet)

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d0n.xyz, 2016

https://d0n.xyz/project/css-scrambler/

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Circuit Bending

Altering existing circuits to produce new sounds or images.�https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending

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Circuit Bending

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Pixel Sorting

https://medium.com/@xoalexo/pixel-sorting-is-the-coolest-thing-youve-never-tried-48097954e9f3

https://diegofg.com/pixelsorting/

https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/422167/

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Glitch Art Aesthetic vs Ethos

Ferruccio Laviani,

Good Vibrations Series

2013

https://tlmagazine.com/good-vibrations-ferruccio-laviani

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Datamoshing

How to Datamosh

http://forum.glitchet.com/t/tutorial-make-video-glitch-art-how-to-datamosh-in-plain-english/36

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Image Compression

And why it matters for glitch art

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How to produce a glitch?

  • Take a familiar piece of technology and do something unfamiliar with it.

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Opening Images As Text

Demo & Tutorial

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Assignment: Glitch Art

Create 3 Works of Glitch Art using the Audacity method or text edit method and upload them to your website on a new project page.

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https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/1373811/assignments/5466080

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Due Monday Sept. 21.

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Opening Images As Audio

Demo & Tutorial