Open any image file as a word document and you’ll notice a ton of text data that may seem like nonsense. That’s the information that makes up a .jpeg image file. Adding or modifying this information in any way corrupts the image in a visibly recognizable way. Expanding upon this concept, Georg Fischer developed a simple website interface that allows you to upload and image and modify it with “glitch amount” “sjpg quality” levers. Experiment with the generator here. Fun stuff indeed.
Oh my God. Hold me. This is beautiful. Let's all just look at this gorgeous glitch portrait of the New York Germany-based artist Kim Asendorf who works with experimental "generative strategies, physical computing, data and glitch" and tell me how this is less relevant than Turner. Because it's not. In 2010, Asendorf coined the term "pixel…
Nothing wrong with this picture here. That's an actual hand-carved wood cabinet by Italian architect and designer Ferruccio Laviani. The "Good Vibrations" storage unit is a feat of artisanship, a baroque armoire contorted into seamless IRL glitch. Echoes of faraway places and Oriental elements are glimpsed in the “disorienting” design…
Digital artist Evan Bech creates these psychedelic visuals by using digital means to replicate a time-worn analog glitch technique: the feedback loop. A program that's constantly taking screen grabs and generating new images goes haywire as Bech manually moves windows around, creating an effect that evokes both the old Solitaire…
