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Still remixes of an animated GIF by Benjamin Gaulon (recyclism). The GIF looks to be a glitch of a Cory Arcangel gradient. Source: http://www.uglitch.com/en/uglitch/
I'm having trouble trying to get this data bending to work. Are there any programs you recommend on using? I have a PC, and i've tried a hex editor, but i can't seem to get it to work. It constantly says that the file is corrupt when I try to view the picture. Any tips?
Hex editors are the way to go IMHO, but text editors work just as well. There are also ways of importing raw data into Audacity (an open source audio editing program). Try different file formats. The easiest ones to tamper with are BMP and TIFF, but the results are very subtle and require a lot of copying and pasting. JPG responds most drastically. Avoid messing with the beginning and end of the files, focus on changing the content in the middle. Try using the overwrite mode so that data you enter doesn’t add to the file size or shift bits around. The find and replace all feature is great for image-wide things but needs a lot of tinkering to find the sweet spot and it’s different for each file. After every change, save your file as a duplicate with a different name so you can track your progress and go back to alterations you really like.
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Still remixes of an animated GIF by kgvogel.
Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mandelbrot_zoom.gif
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Still remixes of an animated GIF by Jason Irla.
Images were generated by editing the image data in a hex editor, loading in Firefox, and cropping the screen grabs.
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Still remixes of an animated GIF by Yoshi Sodeoka.
Hex edits performed on the original resulted in a dynamic glitch. In Firefox, the image froze upon reaching the corrupt data. Each time the image was reloaded, Firefox generated a different image.
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Still remixes of an animated GIF by A Bill Miller.
Hex edits performed on the original resulted in a dynamic glitch. In Firefox, the image froze upon reaching the corrupt data. Each time the image was reloaded, Firefox displayed a different image.
can you recommend me some tutorial to start to experiment with glitch? i know there are several out there but surelly you have some favorite ;)
Nic Collins’s Hardware Hacking is the definitive text for getting started with the techniques I employ in preparing the digital cameras and other hardware I use. Â If you search for Circuit Bending, you’ll get a wealth of resources. Â In general, Circuit Bending is primarily sound oriented, but the methods can be used to modify any electronic device—-within reason, of course. Â For the the raw data editing, search Data Bending. Â I don’t have any recommended resource, but the concept is fairly simple: open an image file in a text editor, change the text, re-save as an image file, open in an image viewer/editor, (process and repeat as desired). Â I happen to be using a hex-editor, which is like a text editor, but for binary (represented as hex). Â Best advice is to just experiment and be fearless!
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Source: a video consisting of one black frame and one white frame.
Process: iterative re-compression using Quicktime .MOV h264 w/ QT filters and selective manipulation of the raw data using a hex editor.
Concept: successive signal degradation returns to the initial starting point.
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A a completely white 4000×4000 px image after seventeen hex edits and 2 format conversions between JPG and GIF along the way. Technique: data bending
How did you make those blankets? I've been toying with the idea of making cross-stitch versions of some of my pixel illustrations, but this technique also looks promising
There are several companies out there who are able to convert images into textiles. I’ve been working with two weavers using different techniques and am searching for more. A friend of mine, Jeff Donaldson, made a series of scarves this way and Melissa Barron used a TC-1 Jacquard loom to weave some of her screen grabs.Â
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A white image 4000px square after 13 edits to the raw data in a hex editor, some selective cropping, and down sampling by 25%. Technique: data bending
(one of a kind 8”x10” signed artist print available for purchase)
Glitch Textiles
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- YOTG #32 as a blanket
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- YOTG #32 as a blanket
Experimenting with making woven blankets out of images from Year of the Glitch. Â Here are some photos of tests. Â #32 is featured in there!
There are 4 blankets in this collection. The first four images are two blankets made with a mechanized knitting process. The last two images are two different blankets made using a Jacquard loom.
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A white image 4000x4000px after seven successive edits to the data with a hex editor and some selective cropping. Technique: data bending
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A completely white .jpg image file, 4000x4000px, after 5 passes of raw image data editing with Hex Fiend, and some selective cropping in GIMP. Technique: data bending
(one of a kind 8”x10” signed artist print available for purchase)
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While working on a sound installation commissioned by Moleskine, one of my COBY MP3 players decided to do a dark tribal glitch remix of one of my loops.
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From the Kodak DC215 (the diagonal lines are actually the wood grain of my table top and shadows from wires…).
Phillip Stearns 