GLITCHET

Tutorials

General tutorials

These are tutorials that cover multiple techniques or serve as good general primers.

• DATAMOSHING : Imagebending [WordPad, Windows][Audacity, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• James Connolly's Glitch Talk - good range of examples showing different types of glitches, and some historical context
• Daniel Temkin | Glitch Tutorials - a number of these tutorials I found through his site, so thank him!
• Glitch Art Resources | Phillip Stearns
• Digital Image File Types Explained

Hex / Text Editing

Use text or hex editors to edit the low-level data of a file and break it.

• Databending images with text editor « Audio Geek Zine [TextWrangler, Mac][Evernote Skitch]
• praseodyms way of databending v0.1 [Any hex editor and image editor]
• Glitch Art and Databending Primer - Part I: Hex Editing and You! [Any hex editor]
• Bending a penguin | Antonio Roberts (breaking vector files) [Any text editor]

Data-as-Sound Editing

Use audio editors to glitch out images by interpreting them as sound, either putting them back out into images or using them as "music".

• databending and glitch art primer, part 2: sonification [Audacity / many others, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Databending using Audacity Effects [Audacity, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Databending Using Audacity | Antonio Roberts [Audacity, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Creative Sound Design: When Glitches Are A Good Thing | A Sound Effect [Audacity, Mac/Windows/Linux]

Datamoshing / Video Glitching

Alter or destroy frames of video or GIFs with a variety of techniques.

• Datamoshing - The Beauty of Glitch [avidemux, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Explanation of video compression properties that enable datamoshing by thoven on reddit
• Broken Gif/Datamoshing Tutorial via /r/brokenanimegifs [Virtualdub, avidemux, ffdshow codec, Windows]
• Video Noizz-a very useless tutorial [Quartz Composer, Mac]
• what a difference- a very useless tutorial 2. [Quartz Composer, Mac]
• Photoshop animation/video editing techniques - Caden Ohlwiler puts together a bunch of fascinating Photoshop techniques for tweaking gifs and videos [Photoshop]

3d Glitching

Glitching out 3d models with fascinating results. Typically requires a basic understanding of 3d modeling. (I don't know a ton about this. Have a suggestion? Let me know!)

• 3d Glitching.. [Blender, Mac/Windows/Linux]
• Sem Shimla - Glitch art in blender! a speed tutorial - a great, short (5m) tutorial on how to create glitch art with Blender

Miscellaneous Hackery / Resources

Cool tricks that don't necessarily fit under any specific category, or are more obscure.

• lofi Rosa Menkman - A Vernacular of File Formats.pdf
• Glitch GIMP | Antonio Roberts [GIMP, Mac/Windows/Linux](command line, compiling software)
• databending and glitch art primer, part 1: the wordpad effect - this is a classic, but you need to use an old version of WordPad that only shipped with early WinXP computers. I've heard there is such a thing on the internet somewhere [WordPad, Windows]
• databending and glitch art primer part 3: the GIF - a new essay by stallio on glitching gifs and videos
• advanced wordpad editing explained [WordPad, Windows]
• cachemash #209: TUTORIAL - abusing an old version of Photoshop to glitch out truncated JPGs [Photoshop 6.0-, Windows XP?]
• Glitch Codec Tutorial - part art talk, part detailed tutorial, this walks you through the steps of using Nick Briz's altered video codec to get glitched video. use the "download" link on this page to grab the .pdf [Mac/Windows/Linux (virtual machine)](command line)

Tools

The following table lists out tons of different tools and resources I've found and collected here. You can sort by the various columns or use the search filter to find something. A quick legend:

• Name - The name of the thing, also the link
• Description - A brief description
• Interface - How you interact with the tool - can be: GUI, for a graphic user interface (like Photoshop), CLI for a command line interface (like ffmpeg), or Code for a code library you can use programmatically
• Platform - What platforms support the tool - can be Web, Windows, Linux, or OS X
• Price - How much the tool costs, if anything - can be Free or the actual price (may indicate Trial)

Glitch Aesthetic History and Articles

Learn more about the origins of glitch aesthetic and its ilk.

• The long, twisted history of glitch art
• The visual punk of glitch art
• There's Not Much 'Glitch' In Glitch Art

Glitchety Communities

There are a ton of little communities focused around the things that Glitchet is interested in around the net.

• Glitchet Facebook Page - well, uh, obviously.
• Glitch Artists Collective Facebook Group
• Glitch//Request Facebook Group - get your images glitched!
• Cyberpunk Science Fiction & Culture Facebook Group
• FREE THE PIXELS! Facebook Group - find and share open source digital art for loving and remuxing
• /r/glitch_art - glitch art subreddit
• /r/proceduralgeneration - cool dynamically generated art and games
• /r/futurology - futurologist megasub

That's all, folks!

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Effect Samples

Images that show off some common glitchety effects.

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  wordpad effect stallio

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  sound-as-image databending thecreatorsproject

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  hex editing drpfenderson

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  datamoshing Matt Caron

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  3d glitching pynchy