year of the glitch | Phillip Stearns

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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)

February 5, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, data bend, data bending, databending, digital art, glitch, glitch art, Phillip Stearns, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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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.

February 4, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: audio, COBY, fail, glitch, glitch art, mp3 player, music, noise, Phillip Stearns, sound, sound art, WAV, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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From the Kodak DC215 (the diagonal lines are actually the wood grain of my table top and shadows from wires…).

February 3, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, digital art, digital camera, digital photography, error, glitch, glitch art, noise, Phillip Stearns, photography, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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From the Kodak DC215.

February 2, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, digital art, digital photography, glitch, glitch art, Phillip Stearns, photography, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch, YOTG | Leave a comment

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From the Kodak DC215.

February 1, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, digital art, digital photography, error, glitch, glitch art, noise, Phillip Stearns, photography, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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Still from a video made using a prepared DVD player.

January 31, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, circuit bending, circuit bent, digital art, dvd, dvd player, error, glitch, glitch art, noise, Phillip Stearns, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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Still from a video made using a prepared DVD player.

January 30, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, circuit bending, circuit bent, digital art, dvd, dvd player, error, glitch, glitch art, noise, Phillip Stearns, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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Screen capture from a video made with a prepared DVD player.

January 29, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, circuit bending, circuit bent, digital art, dvd, error, glitch, glitch art, noise, Phillip Stearns, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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Still image captured from the output of a DVD player. Either the data I encoded to the DVD was corrupt (source was abstract to begin with), or the DVD was unable to handle the data rate (over 8MBps).

January 28, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, circuit bending, circuit bent, digital art, dvd, dvd player, error, glitch, glitch art, noise, Phillip Stearns, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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Remix of 026 exported as a GIF, repeatedly rotated in Preview and manipulated in Hex Fiend, cropped in preview, color adjustments in GIMP.

January 27, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: data bend, data bending, GIF, glitch, glitch art, Phillip Stearns, remix, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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Still from a video file of a 3 second fade from black to white to black after 100 iterations of recompression using a motion JPEG2000 algorithm on the lowest quality setting with slight sharpening.

January 26, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: artifacts, compression, compression artifacts, digital art, digital video, glitch, glitch art, Phillip Stearns, video still, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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Phillip Stearns – 025 of 366

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While recording sounds of NYC traffic from the inside of a car, my brand new Tascam DR-40 decided it was time to get some recognition for it’s capacity to fail beautifully.

January 25, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: error, fail, found sound, glitch, glitch art, Phillip Stearns, sound, sound art, tascam, wild, wild glitch, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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Sea of Pixels

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A remix of 012 after being converted from JPG to GIF and then subjected to progressive manipulation in Hex Fiend.

January 24, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: art, circuit bending, circuit bent, data bend, data bending, digital, digital art, digital photography, error, GIF, glitch, glitch art, kodak, noise, Phillip Stearns, photography, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment

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What started out as a diagonal black and white gradient finishes as an abstract, if organic, texture after 38 progressive edits to the raw image data using Hex Fiend.

January 23, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: data bend, data bending, databend, digital art, error, GIF, glitch, glitch art, noise, year of the glitch, yearoftheglitch | Leave a comment