Glitch Art Resources

This is a collection of resources I find relevant to my own creative practice concerning Glitch Art. It’s by no means complete or exhaustive, and sadly, though I am trying to include as many relevant and important figures as possible, it will be impossible for me to include them all. I will do my best to continuously update reorganize and revise this list as time goes on. Feel free to contact me regarding missing entries, questionable inclusions, or for the sake of talking about any of the items listed here.

Lecture Notes

• STGO Makerspace – Day 1 Notes

Tools

• Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Hex Fiend (Intel Mac’s Only) – http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
• HxD (for PCs)- http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ (has a really cool histogram and other data analysis tools)
• Bless Hex Editor (GNU/Linux) – http://home.gna.org/bless/
• GIMP –http://www.gimp.org/
• FFMpeg – http://ffmpeg.org/download.html
• AVIDeMux – http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/download.html fix for OS 10.7+ users here
• Quicktime 7 (Pro)- http://support.apple.com/downloads/#quicktime – Registration Codes for Pro
• VideoLAN – http://www.videolan.org/projects/
• Inkscape – http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en
• Meshlab – http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
• Blender – http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
• IrfanView – http://www.irfanview.com/
• GreenShot – http://getgreenshot.org/downloads/ PC screen shot utility
• Photosounder – http://photosounder.com/
• Pixel Sorting with Processing – http://forum.processing.org/topic/pixel-sorting
• More Pixel Sorting – http://www.clintonmckayart.com/pixelsort/
• Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• Text Pad (text editing for PC) – http://www.textpad.com/
• PNG Checksum Corrector (GNU/LINUX) – http://schaik.com/png/pngcsum.html
• AviGlitch – http://ucnv.github.io/aviglitch/

Glitch Art Tutorials and File Format Resources

• Tutorials compiled by Daniel Temkin – http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials/
• “Glitch Codec Tutorial” by Nik Briz – http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7F731BE271DC5D4
• Antonio Roberts’s Audacity Guide – http://www.hellocatfood.com/2009/11/16/databending-using-audacity/
• How to Datamosh – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8
• A great resource for JPG hex marker – http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~westall/481/notes/jpegimage.pdf
• The MPEG4 video encoding bible – http://akuvian.org/src/x264/ISO-IEC-14496-2_2001_MPEG4_Visual.pdf.gz (sourced from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1957427/detect-mpeg4-h264-i-frame-idr-in-rtp-stream)
• A place to find some leads on important HEX “repair” info for other file formats – http://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/home
• File Signatures – http://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html
• Sustainability of Digital File Formats Planning for the Library of Congress – http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/index.shtml
• h.264 ISO Standard – http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264-201201-I/en
• W3C resource for the PNG format – http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/

Video

• “Apple Computers” by Nik Briz – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GyvH3LApDI
• PBS Off Book “Art of Glitch” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0yiOyvas4

Theory / Writings (Glitch and Related Media Art Topics)

• Jonas Downey “Glitch Art” – http://jonasdowney.com/workspace/uploads/writing/glitch-art-jonasdowney.pdf
• Daniel Temkin and Hugh Manon “Notes on Glitch” – http://worldpicturejournal.com/WP_6/Manon.html
• Daniel Temkin “Glitch && Human/Computer Interaction” – http://nooart.org/post/73353953758/temkin-glitchhumancomputerinteraction
• 2011 Gli.tc/H READER(ROR) – http://gli.tc/h/READERROR/GLITCH_READERROR_20111-v3BWs.pdf
• Rosa Menkman “Glitch Studies Manifesto” – http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2010/02/glitch-studies-manifesto.html
• Rosa Menkman “A Vernacular of File Formats” – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9054743/lofi%20Rosa%20Menkman%20-%20A%20Vernacular%20of%20File%20Formats.pdf
• Jason Irla “Databending Studies” – http://jasonirla.com/databending-studies-edition-001/
• Legacy Russell – Digital Dualism And The Glitch Feminism Manifesto
• Legacy Russell – Elsewhere, After the Flood: Glitch Feminism and the Genesis of Glitch Body Politic
• Iman Moradi “Glitch: Designing Imperfection” – http://www.amazon.com/Glitch-Designing-Imperfection-Iman-Moradi/dp/0979966663
• Mark Nunes “Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures” – http://books.google.com/books?id=ZyJeWYFaUEsC
• Jeff Donaldson – “Glossing Over Thoughts on Glitch” – http://artpulsemagazine.com/glossing-over-thoughts-on-glitch-a-poetry-of-error
• Rebecca Jackson – “The Glitch Aesthetic” – http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/80
• Peter Krapp – “Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture”
• Various Contributors “DeFunct / ReFunct” exhibition catalog – http://ruared.ie/Documents/defunct_refunct_catalogue_web.pdf
• Caleb Kelly “Cracked Media” – http://www.amazon.com/Cracked-Media-Malfunction-Caleb-Kelly/dp/0262013142/
• Kim Cascone “The Aesthetics of Failure” – http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/comj/cmj24_4cascone.pdf
• Kim Cascone “Errormancy: Glitch as Divination” – http://theendofbeing.com/2012/04/19/errormancy-glitch-as-divination-a-new-essay-by-kim-cascone/
• Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver “The Mathematical Theory of Communication” – http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Theory-Communication-Claude-Shannon/dp/0252725484/
• Marshal McLuhan – “Understanding Media”
• Margit Rosen “A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961–1973” – http://www.amazon.com/Little-Known-Movement-Magazine-Computers-Arrival/dp/0262515814/
• Friedrich Kittler – “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter” and “Discourse Networks”
• Douglas Kahn – “Noise, Water, Meat”
• Mark B.N Hansen – “New Philosophy for New Media”

Criticism

• Cathryn Ploehn “Not So GIFted” – http://www.morehshin.com/fall12emac4326/tag/glitch/

Community Stuff

• gli.tc/h conference – http://gli.tc/h/
• gli.tc/h conference WIKI – http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/glitchglitch
• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/glitches/ and http://www.flickr.com/groups/glitchsafari/

Artists (Glitch and Related):

• An extensive list in the gli.tc/H conference WIKI – http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php/Glitch_artists
• Kim Asendorf
• Beflix (Ant Scott)
• Paul Hertz
• Rosa Menkman
• Jessica Westbrook
• Scott Fitzgerald
• Anton Marini
• Daniel Temkin
• Jon Satrom
• Nick Briz
• Jon Cates
• A Bill Miller
• Glitchr (tumblr/twitter)
• Jeff Donaldson
• Nullsleep (Jeremiah Johnson)
• Anthony Antonellis
• LoVid (related)
• Year of the Glitch
• Pixelnoizz
• (Я) RECYCLISM (Benjamin Gaulon)
• Evan Meaney
• Billy Roisz
• Kyle McDonald
• Kyle Evans
• Morgan Higby-Flowers
• JODI
• Joseph Nechvatal
• Arcangel Constantini
• Mario De Vega
• Victor Mazon
• Jorge Crowe
• Nicolas Collins
• Corey Arcangel
• Karl Klomp
• Gijs Gieskes
• Nam June Paik
• Yoshi Sodeoka
• Takeshi Murata
• Paul B. Davis
• Jehad Nga – The Green Book Project
• http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/01/09/melanie_willhide_to_adrian_rodriguez_with_love_photos.html

Textiles + Glitches/Electronics:

• Andrew Whealy
• Hannah Perner-Wilson – Weaving Conductive Fabric | Making of… | Outcome
• Jeff Donaldson’s Glitchaus
• Melissa Baron
• Nukeme
• Peter Struycken
• Phillip Stearns’s Glitch Textiles

Tumblr:

• S̶h͟are͢ ҉Gli̶tc̴h – http://shareglitch.tumblr.com/
• Crime Mob – http://newvisiontechnology.tumblr.com/
• Adam Ferriss – http://adamferriss.tumblr.com/
• Miyo Van Stenis – http://miyovanstenis.tumblr.com/
• Jason Irla – http://call-me-mister.tumblr.com/
• Glitch Gifs – http://glitchgifs.tumblr.com/
• Kim Asendorf – http://kimasendorf.tumblr.com/
• Glitch-Hop – http://glitch-hop.tumblr.com/
• Glitchee – http://glitchee.tumblr.com/
• Glitch News – http://glitchnews.tumblr.com/
• Glitchtheory – http://glitchtheory.tumblr.com/
• Max Capacity – http://maxcapacity.tumblr.com/
• A. Bill Miller – http://abillmiller.tumblr.com/
• Stallio (Benjamin Berg) – http://stallio.tumblr.com/
• Surrogate-Self – http://surrogate-self.com/
• Food Mosh – http://foodmosh.tumblr.com/
• Something Funny is Happening – http://somethingfunnyishappening.tumblr.com/
• Rumblesan – http://rumblesan.tumblr.com/
• Gift3d – http://g1ft3d.com/
• Mesmeon – http://mesmeon.tumblr.com/
• Notendo (Jeff Donaldson) – http://notendo.tumblr.com/
• Capsule 9 – http://capsule9.tumblr.com/
• Zon Wakest – http://wakest.info/tagged/glitch
• Matthew Williamson – http://matthew-williamson.tumblr.com/

Glitch Music

• Yasunao Tone – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunao_Tone
• MEGO record Label – http://editionsmego.com/
• Mille Plateaux – http://milleplateaux1.wordpress.com/

Further Reading

• On Data Visualization – http://www.formfollowsbehavior.com/2007/09/17/artistic-data-based-visualization/
• Ludwig Wittgenstein – “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, “Lectures and Conversations” and “Zettel”
• Giorgio Agamben – “Infancy and History”
• Raymond Williams – “Culture and Materialism” and “The Politics of Modernism”
• Jean Baudrillard – “The System of Objects”, “Simulacra and Simulation” and “The Conspiracy of Art”
• Paul Virilio – “Pure War”, “The Politics of the Very Worst”, “Information Bomb” and “Open Sky”
• Alain Badiou – “Metapolitics”
• DeLeuze and Guattari – “Anti-Oedipus” and “A Thousand Plateaus”
• Jean-Francois Lyotard – “The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge”
• Rudy Rucker – “Infinity and the Mind”
• Jeremy Campbell – “Grammatical Man”
• John Cage – “Silence”
• Various contributors, edited by Steven L. Goldman – “Science, Technology, and Social Progress”
• Various contributors, edited by Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Steven L. Goldman, Manuel Medina, and Jose Sanmartin – “New Worlds, New Technologies, New Issues”
• Karl Mannheim – “Ideology and Utopia”

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