Glitch Art Thread

There used to be a glitch art thread around here or am I crazy? Anyway I'll start a new one. I've been messing around with audacity and hex values for some time. I think it's getting boring. I did some things with video files too, but they are all in MP4.

Some of the video projects. Converted these to webm. The video quality is terrible. It's really sad .mp4 files are not supported here.

Great glitch art video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfr64zoBTAQ

>>5267 lol

So, how much of y'all's glitch art is databending vs manual edits?

>>5271 OP here and the only one posting lol I usually do the databending and throw the files on GIMP and just pick different layer modes. This generates lots of different results for the same databent files. As for the videos it's just databending.

op, this is fuarrrking awesome here's a piece I found long time ago (through archillect I thinkk)

>>5272 the third image is my favorite because you can really see the DCT basis functions. when you say databending, do you mean chopping things up in a hex editor, or were you using scripts (or audacity)? >GIMP gimp is so good for this stuff but i wish the scripting/plugin system was more intuitive. i tend to hop back and forth between gimp and python/PIL.

>>5274 >when you say databending, do you mean chopping things up in a hex editor, or were you using scripts (or audacity)? Mainly audacity and hex editor. I also like to convert files to raw formats and re-encode them with the wrong pixel format or image size (pic related). I never used scripts. I'm curious about messing with codecs and video feedback but I'm not sure how to start.

Just learned that I can put two videos together in Audacity. It creates a cool effect that could be explored further. One of the videos is a bit longer than the other because ffmpeg fuarrrked up when trimming them. Also, one of the videos is not full 720p so when I encoded them with the video size of 1280x720 it created this vertical film strip effect.

>>5276

>>5275 >I'm curious about messing with codecs and video feedback but I'm not sure how to start. ffmpeg for codecs. i can't give much more specific advice because its a bit outside my wheelhouse but i've been ehh "glitch-adjacent" for a while so i know the guys who do a lot with codecs tend to be ffmpeg wizards. this guy is one of the best imo https://github.com/itsKaspar for video feedback type stuff it depends on if you're talking about analog or digital. analog i think most people use tachyons+ gear (https://tachyonsplus.com/) and old broadcasting equipment. for digital it's usually processing (https://processing.org/) but the real ones write proper shaders.

>>5276 also, these look great

how does one make those cool video glitches?

>>5278 Wow, thanks for the knowledge. >>5280 >ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p result.yuv Will generate a raw file so you can work with it on Audacity. >ffmpeg -f rawvideo -video_size 1280x720 -pix_fmt yuv420p -i input.raw output.mp4 Will convert the raw file back to video. Make sure you use the right video size (or don't). You can mess with the raw file on Audacity like described on that "The Art of The Glitch" article on Lainzine 4. Also, you can use a hex editor to mess around with the video. Make sure you don't break it too much tho.

Went a bit more abstract now. Just discovered a great library in ruby called pnglitch and a thing called pixel sorting. It's pretty nice playing around with it. The pictures where all gathered on random 4shared folders.

I tried my hand at making some glitch art today. I'm satisfied with this, but only because it's not terrible. I think i'll try to pick this up as a hobby; I'd really like to make something worth using for my wallpaper. I can't believe it's possible to get such clean glitch art as in so many of the pics above. It took a lot of fiddling around to get this image in both the colors I wanted and to be relatively clear.

My GPU driver is buggy and it made some cool glitch art. Some pictures are from threads on lainchan, because I was browsing it when it glitched.

>>6272 And one extra

Learned how to do this from a zine posted on here, probably from the last thread.

>>5260 Ricardo Ohara?

>>6146 most images come out pretty noisy from audacity, the echo and the reverb effects do that a lot >>6272 >>6273 this is really cool, do you know how to reproduce these bugs? >>6275 I also got into it from the lainzine, pretty cool stuff >>6347 the man himself

>>6387 >this is really cool, do you know how to reproduce these bugs? Yes, do you want something glitched?

>>6389 Not the original guy that asked but could you glitch this pic up?

>>6412 Kernel devs unfucked my Linux and the glitch is gone, I can try downgrading.

>>6420 downgrading?

thinking about getting back into glitch art

>not bass boosting all your pictures before uploading them to an imageboard

Deleted my entire images folder a while ago I'm back

the very first one i did when playin around a bit, didn't get anything good after and completely forgot about it :/ it was a lot of fun i should try to make more again when i find some time

>>5259 You guys mind if I drop my gimp stuff in here. Just found out the old thread reached reply limit.

>>7060 Really digging these uncle ted ones

>>7067

>>7068

>>5262 How did you get yours to look so cool?? I've been messing around with Audacity but haven't managed to produce anything quite as interesting.

Gave it a try, too. Really fun. Do you have any recommended guides? First tries I only got colorful noise/chaos and nothing left of the image. I found a website suggesting to save as non-interleaved .tiff and this worked a lot better!

>>7100 I gave it another attempt.

sort of pseudo-glitch messing around with indexed color compression

>>7114 this also seems to considerably reduce filesize

>>7089 Last one reminds me of that DSO album. >>7094 Mass production. If you just have fun with it and make a lot of results it's easy to pick the best ones later. Also, use GIMP to overlay different pictures with different modes, it generates less noisy images and lets you reuse pictures that didn't came out of audacity the way you wanted >>7100 Lately I've been using ffmpeg to do the conversions between JPG/PNG/MP4/WEBM to RAW and back, this lets me play with the file in audacity a bit more without worrying about headers and all that. I wish I could mess with conversion stuff a bit more. If you could link that website it would be very nice.

>>7214 More like the last one.

>>7214 https://questionsomething.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/databending-using-audacity-effects/ That's the website I mentioned. I did it with ffmpeg, too. >convert -interlace plane picture.jpg picture.tiff To save with RGB seperated.

>>7269 Oh, forgot to attach another one I made.

>>7269 Thanks, that seems really interesting

>>7270 I really like this image, lainon. Great work!

>>7377 fuarrrk yes, I really like this kind of noise.

>>7395

Not sure if "glitch", mostly fuarrrk up pictures i take in manic gimp sessions.

>>7500 They are really pretty.

>>7557

>>7575 Also a couple of old datamoshing experiments from a few years ago

>>7576 >>7575 Aaaand a couple more images because why not?

I just wanted to try the glitch art tutorial on lainzine 3, but I don't find a raw support export option in audacity. Where do I need to look?

>>7586 Just hit export audio, set the type to other uncompressed files, the header to RAW, and the encoding to whatever encoding method you imported with

>>7575 >>7576 >>7577 They look so good Who is the girl from the video?

audacity works good with pictures but not so with videos, i can't get results other than completely broken files or just the same one regardless of the effect i use someone help pls >>7590 i followed this method

very fun. messing around and hoping to get more interesting results >>7060 my new wallpaper, thank you frend

>>7651 Are you using Windows? I know how to do it on Linux with ffmpeg, maybe you can replicate it. >ffmpeg -i video.webm -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p video.raw >export to audacity as raw file with A-law encoding >edit >export as raw file with A-law encoding >ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -s [width]x[height] -i editedVideo.raw editedVideo.webm

>>7676 >import to audacity as raw file with A-law encoding QuickFix©.

>>7617 Haru Nemuri. The video I used is her music video for Yume wo Miyou

>>5259 Not genuinely glitched but in that vein

Terry.

I once heard a story of a man who took an oath with no intention of keeping it. He borrowed from a neighbor before traveling to a nearby province to do business. As Our Man began his journey out the great city's gates he stopped to admire the sun rise. For his great city was nested along a cliff face Here came upon the acquaintance of an gaunt traveler of indetenimant age who as it happened was both admiring the sunriseand heading the same direction. Amicable, they elected to travel together. After Several sunsets and shared meals the man begun to notice things about his fellow traveler. A light and intensity in his gaze, fortitude and energy well beyond his frail body. Our Man had struggled to keep pace with his cohort. "You are not mortal" said Our Man one morning as they unmade camp. "Aye" grunted the traveler "May I ask who It is I walk with?" The traveler spoke without looking up from his pack "I am Horkos. Son of Strife. I travel seeking to inflict my curse upon the wicked" Wide shot terror skipped through the circulatory system of Our Man. "I see. And when will do you plan on returning to my fair city?" Horkos looked up from his pack. "Thirty, maybe Forty years. I have Lots of ground to cover" Terror drained into the ground beneath Our Man. He was safe. “I suppose that would be the case. Never thought of it that way. What an interesting life you must lead" "You would have to speak with my brother Logoi if you wish to hear of exploits" Our Man and Horkos parted ways soon after. He spent a season in the province buying and selling with the borrowed resources of his neighbor and then returned to his city. His neighbor inquired about the return of the borrowed and reminded our man of his oath. But Our Man openly and fervently denied any such thing had ever happened and then hired guards to beat his neighbor. That very night Horkos returned. dragging Our Man by his hair from his bed and out of the city gate. "You said you wouldn't be back for Thirty years!" "Aye. But when I am provoked I will return the same day to visit punishment upon an oathbreker" Then Horkos threw Our Man off the cliff.

>>5259 how do i export my glitched ''corrupted'' video files to uncorrupted video files? adobe premiere accepts the files but it kind of sux to be honest because it doesn't let me export to the same resolution the source file was and sony vegas just doesn't accept the files at all. anyone know of some video editing software that accepts these corrupted videos?

This is just a pic of a broken LCD monitor but I thought it looked cool.

>>7958 Oh, this thing will haunt me in my dreams. Apart from that, i tried to replicate analog glitches with digital software, here, example is attached image.

>>7963 >>7963 Looks good

made this from just editing values in the file and converting between gif and jpg formats

any tips for glitching animations, either video or gif?

honestly i want to make some effects like disrup[tv] have in their "world's deadliest computer virus" videos those are dope as fuarrrk

I was just tryng to implement 3d convolutions but I did something wrong... Idk why but I choosed to keep those images saved.

>>7974 >tfw my gangstalkers live inside lainchan

At this point, i'm already ready to make my own "analog horror" project, heard about these?

>>8247 Nope, how does it go?

not a glitch but i found this on my computer today and considered it as a piece of art

>>8293 Fun, I'll remove the 'Apex Legends' part and use it for a project

ive always wanted to trythis soykaf out but ive never really managed to get any cool effects got any good guides, OP?

>>8306 Look for sonification on the internet. >https://abissusvoide.wordpress.com/blog/ >https://crash-stop.blogspot.com/ >https://lainzine.org/all-releases/lainzine03.pdf Also, read Rosa Menkman's books on resolution and media formats.

This is something I made recently

I think I'm falling in love again

The only "true" glitch part of this image is the Venus model. I tried some technique using Blender and it almost fried my computer. The rest is just GIMP abuse. Hope it counts.

>>8324 I checked out that lainzine and messed around in audacity. This is pretty fun although I did seem to be a bit too wary of the header space. I definitely gotta try more stuff out. >>8381 What do you mean by GIMP abuse? Any particular examples?

>>8381 Very nice image. I think it all counts, some people say that glitch art is all about the process but I think the look and feel is also important. >>8383 Use ffmpeg to transform images into raw files instead of imagemagick or whatever, it allows you to mess with the image a bit more freely. Described the commands here >>5283 , I use MP4 files on those, but JPGs and PNGs work too.

Anyone have that other picture of this guy?

>>8505 No idea what you're referring to, but I felt inspired. Wanted to see if I could use various glitch art techniques to make something that wouldn't look out of place in a shrine. It's what this guy deserves.

>>8515 Cool, Nice work lain

It’s not a real glitch, here I used a bunch of effects to turn a photo of a disk into that.

Random experiment in GIMP. That's my photo btw. I'm not sure if this counts as glitch art tho.

Our queen Lain but glitched

Aren't some of these too abstract? Sometimes I get lost in them because I can see many things and nothing at the same time. There are some hidden faces, things and emotions but it isn't anything specific. Is this the exact purpose of this kind of glitch art? >>6836 >>7377 >>8385 >>7396

>>8583 Well, I guess glitch art always gets in the liminal between abstraction and concrete imagery. I made the ones from >>6836 >>8385 and >>7396 and I can see where it comes from and goes to, all the figures present and all the feelings I had while making them. If anything just think about the very abstract ones as landscape paintings of the cyber age.

>>8539 >>8578 These are very nice, maybe not glitch art at it's core, but the aesthetics is there

I'm still doing it please let me post

>>8815 Images didn't ship

I want to post more but I can't do it without writing.

Here's some old random soykaf I found laying around in my projects folder.

It's so hard to post images here

Some rough parts of some os the images I have posted here

I have a couple of memes that got corrupted because of USB shenanigans. Have some of em. (I had to screenshot them quickly because lainchan don't like handling corrupted jpgs lol fair enough)

>>8998 >This body is too short

First successful attempts at glitching, all the other attempts were corrupted. After the initial glitching in audacity I played around with the colors in gimp.

>>9000 Dunno why lainchan ate the second image lol

Something i made using FL STUDIO and multiple distortion plugins and some hex editing Original Pics from the movie La Jatee

>>9060 Why the fuarrrk does lain keep eating the picture

I made this, it actually was a lot easier to make than I thought it would be.

>>9179 That looks amazing lain. Do you have a higher res version? I am curious how it was made so if you can also provide some details that would be awesome.

I like how these turned out.

I liked making these I want to make more but life is too hard right now

>>9179 wow that's straight up dope, great idea

>>5263 These are really cool! I've been using the last one as my wallpaper for quite a while now.

>>5259 how do you make glitchy art lainons? any techniques? methods? i'm just personally curious, since a lot of art posted in this thread is pretty lovely :)

>>9191 feeling edgy lately

Spent hours on this. Mods will probably delete it though.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Despite the title of the file, giving this benefit of the doubt in the name of art regarding Rule 8. Have spoiled the image as per Rule 9. This isn't to be used a precedent, if future posters use it as such, then this image and reply will be deleted.)

>>9271 Based rule breaker.

Serial experiments audacity

Getting (Flood detected; Post discarded) so I decided to add some text.

Hi Lain, I haven't really done much in terms of glitching normal images at this point. However, I do happen to have a special - some would say "broken" - camera which makes interesting photos. It was a score resulting from my hoarding of Canon PowerShot A530's (I don't have a phone, so I need a designated camera). I'm not entirely sure why it does this, but it tends to make things pink and grainy overall, and gives bright areas a melt-y sort of look. I would certainly be interested in hearing if anyone has an idea why this happens. The photos are from the House On The Rock over in Spring Green, Wisconsin. I'd highly recommend going there to any lainon. It's as trippy a place as can be without looking intentional. The whole thing takes about six hours to really go through and gets more surreal with each hour.

HOTR 2/? One of the sections contains a massive sea monster. I recall that it's longer than the statue of liberty is tall, so the perspective isn't necessarily deceptive in the picture (though the model boat is only two meters tall, perhaps).

HOTR 3/? They also have what is supposedly the "worlds largest" carousel. Lots of weird stuff on it, for sure. My favorite has always been the mermaids - they have beautiful eyes, but not much for a face. There's also a second smaller carousel which mostly contains dolls. The very top has a few wild figures, as well. I'm somewhat surprised they put the satyress on it, though maybe it's just the camera that makes me think it had a satanic vibe. ...I really hope I'm not spamming irrelevant posts... Also unsure if this would really be considered "unsafe", but I'll hide it anyway. Just a statue.

HOTR 4/~4 A few more. I have about thirty interesting ones, but I don't want to flood this thread with all of them before anyone even expresses interest. The last one isn't glitched, but it's relevant to the rest of my posts. It's two pictures taken about a foot or so apart, as if for a stereoscope, and turned into an animated GIF. It does a lot to give it a sense of depth. Neat stuff, I think.

>>9336 >>9337 >>9338 >>9339 These are so nice I would like to buy some cheap used cameras and try to fuarrrk them up to get those types of results. One day, maybe Also, post more

>>9340 Thanks! I have no clue what could be done to modify a camera like that, but experimenting wouldn't be too costly. Most working A530's are essentially the cost of shipping - certainly less than $10 a piece.

HOTR 5/~9 At some point I'll try and make a few more 3D animated ones as well. I have a few glitched ones like that; although I can't say when I'll get around to it.

HOTR 6/~9 Something interesting about most of the large instruments in these photos is that most of them are automated. I think they used to be controlled by relay mechanisms, but I've heard they've been using computers to replace the mechanisms as they break. Most of the large stuff is actuated by pneumatic, so it hasn't been entirely modernized.

HOTR 7/~9 I've been trying to think of other places that have the right vibe to work well with this camera, but not much comes to mind. I suppose I haven't tried taking pictures of much normal stuff to really see how it turns out, though.

So there. The results of six hours work consisting of me walking around and pressing a button.

I have a question. can art created directly with visual editing programs (photo and video editors, programs like glitchlab) be considered glitch art or not? **is it related?**

Made more with my camera. It seems to do well on just about anything. >>9349 I assume it's fine as long as it fits to the aesthetic. It's all just manipulating data in one way or another to achieve the same end.

>>9349 afaik few glitch art images are actually the result of glitches. Most of them are made to emulate glitches.

>>9362 >>9368 ok so is this a glitch-art? it's a lot of photoprocs here.

>>9376 I put it through my camera, so now it's official Glitch Art(tm), as it was in part produced by wigged out tech. Really though, this conversation makes me think that "Glitch Art" might be a bad name. It often is used to describe the aesthetic rather than the process by which the name came about. To have an umbrella term --- "Distortion Art" or similar --- may be a solution.

>>9378 your words make sense, lainon. but after spending some time studying the topic, I can say that it’s enough just to remember the original meaning of the term. there is no need to produce essences, it is enough to point out to those who are mistaken that they are wrong. in fact, what I threw above can really be considered glitch art - these are distorted images. I was worried about my art being glitch art because in their case I used a program that specialized in creating glitches, and the process was controlled just like in any other photoredactor. however, now the doubts are gone, and I can safely post my works.

>>9378 >>9387 I wonder about this too. I make edits on occasion, and sometimes I consider them to collages and mockups rather than glitch art even though the edits carries influence from it.

came back to doing glitch art thanks to this thread

Hi, thought lainons may like this one i finished yesterday.

>>9475 what song was used in this one?

>>9597 A sewerslvt song. https://youtu.be/EfsK7-p-UW0

I'm back with my haunted camera - this time with pictures from the University of Iowa's Museum of Natural History. It really seems to give an edge to anything already strange. >>9576 This is very nice. Looks like it took some effort.

OP here. I'm kinda back. Been pretty tired of everything lately. >>9474 amazing work

>>9576 Whoa i love the effect. How did you do it?

Bless this thread for getting me into glitch art. Any tips on glitching gifs and video?

>>9576 This is gorgeous, lain

The trouble with Glitchart, as I see it, is that it's difficult to compose an image which represents more than just colorful noise. Noisy pixels are interesting for a little while, but then you start to look for an actual representation of something.

If you open an image file in a text editor and add some random characters does it produce a glitch image or do you just get a corrupted file that will crash when you try to open it?

>>10281 you could have answered your own question easier than writing that post.

Some glitch art. 1 data bent, 2 manually done.

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk fanart.

>>8954 Tnks for my new wallpaper <3 Does anyone have that glitch art picture of "be careful when following the masses" with the letters 'ass' highlighted as a kind-of pun from the last thread?

>>6834 how did you achieve the effect in the third pic? i just started doing glitchart and it looks really cool

>>11229 not him, but it looks like pixel sorting, there are some JS and python scripts that do that, or you could code your own

>>11229 I actually am him, and lain was right that one was just pixel sorting, no real glitching. http://0x0.st/HhHe.tar.gz Here's the program I used to do it. You'll have to excuse the soykafty code, I was on drugs.

New ones from me, the OP. Got an old CRT now, and I may try to do some analog glitching.

Trying this again for the first time in a while.

>>11437 I think these are fantastic. The third is my favorite.

getting inspired to get back into this

Hey OP, I was wondering if you could glitch the following videos: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhOjFiIDCE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p114wlMlq8 - G Major meme videos - YTPs I would love to see some GIFs, too! As an Audacity user, I learnt how to make mixes of VGMs, since uncompressing stuff is some I've never done in my life.

>>11503 I'm going thought some soykaf lately, sorry for the late response. Glitching videos using my current methods is very slow, but I'm trying to get some stuff together so I can work on video glitching more efficiently.

>>11607 Like your artwork, could you make more visual glitch images while you fix video processing? Any ideas?

Made with notepad++ and paint.net

>>11652 @borkpln on IG if anyone wants to see more.

https://files.catbox.moe/1c6fm0.png I made this (trash) under an hour.

>>11740 >>11652 Like I said, your art is amazing. Anyways, has anybody used paint.net to make glitch art, or Photomosh?

>>8998 I had an issue with an SD card back in 2023 which was suffering from a latch problem and caused everything on it to be deleted... and caused some images to be glitched. Second image was edited in Photomosh.

Glitchy art makes me feel like a modern witch....

>>12567 This looks like a ton of fun. Using Audacity seems clunky though, surely there must be a way to use audio DSP via cmdline back out to image?

>>12570 If you're comfortable coding it's actually easier to do this kind of thing with python scripts (specifically using PIL). There's nothing special about the fact that they're audio effects; people just use Audacity because it has a GUI and is more approachable than GIMP. Anyway, most audio effects fall into one of three categories: saturation, modulation, or "echo". Saturation is your distortions, it does the same sort of thing as saturation in image editing software (specifically it's like editing color curves). Modulation is your filters and periodic effects. These mostly manifest as periodic shifts in color acroas the pixel raster. "Echo", which includes reverb, delay, etc. tends to be a more interesting effect because it results in pixel data being copied and composed over top of nearby data. Things on the reverb end will look more like a blur, while a perfect delay will look like a double exposure kind of. The algorithms are all quite simple, the trick is just knowing what they actually do to the data. But once you understand this, you can "translate" them to functions in traditional image editing software or python scripts. If you go with the former, this is the one and only time I actually recommend using GIMP. It is terrible at most things, but it has a ton of highly configurable filters (including the "general convolution" filter which lets you program in any kernel you want) which are great for making glitch art.

>>7558 do these actually lead anywhere?

FFT Inverse applied repeatedly (to innocuous images) will lead to... this. Runs into a cycle after n iterations (pic 3), depending on the seed image. Alpha is affected too. Doesn't look very digital though.

https://patorjk.com/image-glitcher/ is an interesting site for this. lets you type over the data of a jpg file to slowly corrupt it. The video attached in about is very helpful.

>>6272 >My GPU driver is buggy and it made some cool glitch art "well yes I have nvidia how could you tell" cool stuff lainons, this thread looks like a museum at this point

I've been trying to post some pictures in here for days and it keeps giving me error messages. Frustrating.

>>13078 This is happening to me too....

I don't have a working computer right now. What happens if you change the file type of a JPEG and import it into a music editing software adding an audio effect like reverb then saving it and turning it back to a JPEG? Does that work or does it corrupt the whole file to be unable to be opened?

>>13114 on a JPEG it would wreck the whole file. You can do that but you should typically save the file as raw or something that is closer to raw than the hyper compressed and header dependant formats

>>13114 Whether or not the procedure you descried will corrupt the whole file depends 1. the file format you change it to 2. the region of the audio data you transform / change. The gist is that we don't want to corrupt the structural information of the file, only the color / pixel information. this is easiest to do with file formats that have small headers and no checksums, like windows bitmap. The amount and location of structural information varies with the file type. The most reliable way to data bend without manually repairing files is to research and choose a file type ahead of time that you understand, and know how to avoid damaging the structural information of. For me, this is windows bitmap. I always convert files to bitmap before i run them through audacity. TL;DR use bitmap, avoid deleting data, only transform it.

>>13113 https://files.catbox.moe/qvp81k.png

>>13118 this one is really really cool

Image posting still isn't working for me so take these catbox links. Thank god Lain is back! https://files.catbox.moe/htkeai.png https://files.catbox.moe/g8qgwt.png https://files.catbox.moe/2o4i8l.png https://files.catbox.moe/qx7swp.png

2. TL "suck a d1ck, satan" pinng pongping pong

here are some of my glitch works