Glitch Art

FluffyDuck · 2021-11-02T21:22:25.165Z

In earlier iterations of Quicktime and Mac OS, I used to encode videos as divx or xvid, then duplicate them and cancel the duplication before it finished. The result was these corrupted files that, as you scrubbed through them, retained some earlier frames cross blurred/broken/smeared with later frames. My trick no longer works with modern software.

I guess this is a long shot, but I faintly remember someone somewhere who made a way to produce this effect through code, but I can’t figure out how to find his site, if it still exists.

I’m sorry I can’t follow up with an illustrative example, but the relevant images are on a separate drive. Thanks for any insight!

andrew · 2021-11-02T23:01:06.572Z

something like this might work (in the terminal) ?

cp /path/to/movie.xvid /path/to/movie_2.xvid

then control-C before it finishes

Justmat · 2021-11-03T14:19:06.949Z

i had a first go at datamoshing yesterday. the video result is hit or miss, but there are some really nice moments, i think

i used avidemux for the moshing, and the glitching starts at 10 seconds in.

Blueboy · 2021-11-06T20:14:09.031Z

This is 10 years old, but it’s a good one.

conormcgarrigle.com

Conor McGarrigle

Website of media artist Conor McGarrigle

edrapley · 2021-11-30T18:08:45.687Z

I’m looking for a glossary of glitches.

Does anyone know if a resource that explains/categorises/provides examples of analogue video glitches?

I’ve been thinking about doing some video demos of various eurorack video glitch modules and it would be super useful to know about the existing vocabulary.

Edit:
Joined scanlines.xyz just now and the top post was this same question answered with this link:

http://www.avartifactatlas.com/tags.html#common-artifacts

A bunch of different glitches across digital and analogue given definitions, explanations, and visual examples.

red · 2021-12-01T20:52:21.417Z

Jacques Percontes | Arte TRACKS [german]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsPzhqwhpE

casualdecay · 2021-12-03T21:22:10.525Z

Vcv rack oscilloscope through a pixel sort / fade effect. Thought this came out pretty nice

josker · 2022-02-12T10:51:50.177Z

Stunning. Is there a specific process for achieving something like this?

mattymattmatt · 2022-02-13T02:39:02.311Z

These are really incredible. Thanks for sharing.

vals · 2022-02-13T11:24:16.680Z

really interesting. any info on the process would be nice…

JosueArias · 2022-02-13T14:24:14.266Z

Want to share some oldies from my hard disk

Prof_lofi · 2022-02-13T21:56:16.418Z

Here’s some of mine from a solo exhibition I had about 10 years ago (it’s a bit compressed here but looked great when it was projected against the wall):

And another from 9 years ago (not technically glitch so much as ‘treated’ - this is based on a famous experimental film which if you watch to the end becomes obvious).

diodemover · 2022-02-17T00:49:29.048Z

These are fantastic, thanks for sharing them! What did you use to make them, by the way?

Prof_lofi · 2022-02-17T09:48:04.695Z

Thanks!

I think i was still using Sony Vegas back then although there’s a slight chance I had moved to Premiere Pro at that point (it’s as over 10 years ago).

Fwiw I use Davinci Resolve now - light years better than FCpro or Premiere Pro imo although I still have a soft spot for Vegas as it was my first Daw as well as using it for most of my video work with it before moving on.

Anyway, the first video was mostly an accident that I then polished. My partner was out of the country and desperate that I capture the final episode of some TV show she was going to miss. When I recorded it there must have been a DRM scrambler in place that resulted in the glitches. After that, it was mostly a process of slowing down the video and trying to get the transitions to be more gradual and interesting. Then it was a matter of working with the colour to bring out all the different hues.

The second video was different and made for a film festival. I used a video by an artists well known for cut up techniques (I’m sure you can guess who) and then tried to base my approach on their concept.

So I layered and chopped the video so that it was repeated and layered in interesting ways. Much of it involved using the video equivalent editing techniques that I use in my audio work (layering, reversing, stretching etc) and experimenting with different blend/composite modes between the layers. Mostly experimenting tbh once I came across an aesthetic I liked.

One interesting thing in the last work is that it’s actually quite rhythmic - like, a lot. And when the audio was still in the video (which I kept with the original edit) the rhythmic effect was too pronounced. Removing the audio made the rhythmic aspect more subtle and interesting (for me anyway).

One last thing - it was quite satisfying to make two long form videos that were silent (as someone who is primarily a sound artist and composer).

diodemover · 2022-02-17T11:22:11.307Z

Thanks for the info! It’s funny how so much great work stems from happy accidents, right?

Prof_lofi:

it was quite satisfying to make two long form videos that were silent (as someone who is primarily a sound artist and composer

Yes! I totally know what you mean. It can be really cool to shut off the aural part of your senses and focus on something else. But also, decoupling the visual from the Sonic can bring a new (awesome) level of abstraction.

Prof_lofi · 2022-02-17T11:43:18.644Z

Yes to both of these - seems like my whole career has been a series of accidents (at least from one perspective)!

And absolutely - the few projects that I’ve done where the finished thing didn’t have audio (but somehow was related to it in someway) have been some of my most satisfying works - to me at least.

xmacex · 2022-08-03T14:02:44.388Z

Hi, would you recognize Takeshi Murata’s Monster Movie (2005) as a glitch art canon item?

Also I enjoyed reading Andrew Brook’s short paper “Glitch/Failure: Constructing a Queer Politics of Listening” (2005) in Leonardo Music Journal volume 25 pp. 37-40. Abstract is

This article is an attempt to bring sound studies discourses into dialogue with queer theory, to “queer” the field of sound studies, and to open up queer theory to the textual canon of sonic art. Concerned with notions of failure, this article deals with glitch and examines the result when error, malfunction and failure are amplified within systems. The author argues that the glitch, a key conceit of experimental music, is a productive framework for theorizing minoritarian politics and alternative modes of knowledge production.

That got me, a norns owner, to thinking about overwriting playbuf functions of the ReadWriteHead class or of PlayBuf with glitch version.

Dafake · 2022-10-29T09:52:14.698Z

Here’s an old glitch art video I made, using datamosh and then scoring it in Ableton.
Hope you’ll enjoy those corrupted datas!

howareyou · 2022-11-21T19:00:34.530Z

Cool stuff, reminds me a bit of Takagi Masakatsu - Girls

antiphon · 2023-03-08T20:32:34.241Z

Was watching Ad Astra on an old computer last night when the playback glitched.

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