Pixel Sorted Image of teignmouth beach – Sorted by White

Pixel sorted image sorted by light

Datamashed .PNG image

Datamoshed .AVI file

Cachemashing – Truncated image ‘repaired’ by Photoshop (5)

Cachemashing – Truncated image ‘repaired’ by photohop (CS6)

Step 1: Pixel Sorting

Pixel Sorting does prettymuch exactly what it says on the tin.

The first example is sorted by black, the second white, and the third is a mix of datamoshing and sorting by white.

These were made using Free-use open source code (In processing) – the link for this can be found in “see also” section of this post!

Step 2: Cachemashing

Cachemashing is a fairly difficult effect to achieve, but can have some striking results!

But why is it so difficult? well.. it involves exploiting a bug in a specific version of Photoshop. That is insanely hard to find. near impossible. the key word here being “Near”.

As quoted from the game Antichamber: “If you never stop trying, you will get there eventually”

Noteable Artists:

Kim Asendorf: http://kimasendorf.com/

https://josephkes.wordpress.com/tag/glitch-art/

http://www.donrelyea.com/blog/tag/cachemash/

http://vade.info/

http://www.recyclism.com/

http://vimeo.com/user2202559

http://phillipstearns.wordpress.com/

http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.co.uk/

See also: 

Pixel Sorting: http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/32963838252/kim-asendorfs-pixel-sorting-code-is-now/

http://phillipstearns.wordpress.com/glitch-art-resources/ –awesome collection of glitch art resources and tutorials!

http://schaik.com/png/pngcsum.html –PNG checksum corrector! 

http://squidinkmagazine.tumblr.com/post/65490664688/pixel-sorting-a-guide-to-databending-with –indepth description of pixel sorting for the interested!

 Deconstruction. Destruction. Glitch Art. Where do i start?

After having already completed a project on glitch art and surveillance, inspired by NSA leaks, for College (see: Here and Here for examples) I couldn’t help but think to myself.. piece of cake!

..but i was wrong!

after all my previous experimentation, i felt like just repeating myself would be “cheating”. so, how can i do it differently? How can i push the boundaries?

As my old graphics tutor used to say, “starting with the cliche can be a great way to move away from it”

So..here goes nothing!

Step One: Back to basics

The “simple glitch”. Databending/Datamoshing. Hands-on messy fun, arguably every glitch-artist’s first technique.

One way of doing this is simply opening a file in Notepad++ (or similar editor) and going wild… within limits of course 😦 You don’t want to damage the header or footer! One way of “sidestepping” this, however, is to go with Raw formats.

It is also important to note that the file type you use can greatly change the outcome of your databending

For copyright reasons, i have used my own photography for these experiments.

The first image is an example of a typical datamoshing outcome using Notepad++, The second is made using Notepad with little to no user input, and the third using a .png file. Spot the difference!

A with any kind of glitching, though, things can go wrong easily and quickly. Breaking the file a little too much is a regular occurrence!

Step Two: From the ground up.

Stepping it up a little using Sonification. It does exactly what it says on the tin!

Here i am using Audacity, but there is a wide range of editors you can use!

…And just for fun, here’s a Spectrogram of photoshop!

Step 3: Glitchception

Opening Programs in Programs…

First up: Photoshop and InDesign…

…And here is a leftover cache file from a previous particle physics experiment in Blender!

Noteable Glitch artists:

Alessandro Canova

Antonio Roberts

Sabato Visconti

Daniel Temkin

Eelco den Heijer- Evolving Glitch Art

http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/

See also: 

http://tellab.home.xs4all.nl/dynamics.html – “The WordPad Glitch as a metaphor for abstract expressionism.”

http://gli.tc/h/

http://www.liscentric.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/ – Reddit, but not for procrastination?! what is this sorcery?