Glitch Hunting

Last time I talked about pixel art, and today I'd like to spend another post rambling about computer-only art. In this case, Glitch Art.

A collage of various glitched versions of the same image.

Glitch art is created by forcing images into channels where they can't really go. For example, opening the image as a text file, deleting lines in a text editor and then opening it as an image again. Or opening it in an audio editor and changing things there. The result, in any case, is unique and completely accidental. Similarly as with pixel art, the process is at least as important as the result in glitch art. The resulting combination of the obviously messed up imagery and strange colours randomly appearing make these images strangely eerie. As there's no humans involved to make choices about colour, they tend to be completely wild and random, usually with bright, primal colours. In any case, they're always interesting to look at!

Glitch Art works particularly well for moving imagery.