Glitch art, aka image glitching, aka databending, is the practice of purposely creating bugs in program files to create somewhat esoteric and surprising results that would otherwise likely never have occurred. The great thing about glitch art is the ability to perform this technique on image files and create bizarre artefacts that sometimes no amount of imagination or time spent in Photoshop could create.
As computer development blazes on, the popularity of computer-generated art has boomed. Depending on how pure your ideas of art are, this can be a good or bad thing. However, despite the cries of some art critics, what has been termed “glitch art” is now in vogue.
Glitch art attempts to give meaning to digital madness: finding beauty in bits. While this may sound dubious, it can be done surprisingly well.
Love it or hate it, glitch art has been creeping its way into photography. People have used “glitch” to create a unique aesthetic, entirely new to the electronic era.
Here are some list of Apps concerning Glitch Photography:
iGlitch - "iGlitch" is a camera application to take glitch effected photos.
Take the photo and shake your iPhone, then "iGlitch" makes your original glitch photo.
Decim8 - is a Photography app for iOS and something that you’ve never seen before. There are thousands of Photography apps on the AppStore and all perform and work almost the same way. But Decim8 stands out. It’s completely different. This app is all about destruction. Adding Glitches and mad combinations of various effects/filters, just makes the image look awesome! It is a digital tool for photographic destruction. It comes packed with 25 different digital effects that you’re not going to see in any other app. You can randomize or just customize effects. The built in camera features everything like tap-to-focus, torch, front/rear camera etc. Once you’ve clicked and cooked out a destructed image, you can save it in your camera-roll, share it on Twitter, send it via postcards with built-in Postagram integration, etc. You can also destruct your old images from your Photo Library by importing them! If you want to see cool Decim8 pictures, just head to Instagram and search for #Decim8
Swutits - Swutits is a image glitch exploration tool, simply load an image from your photo album on your iPad and start exploring what happens to the image if you start destroying data in it.
Glitch Lab - The Glitch Lab app makes use of the bugs in technology and allows the artist to recreate the conditions that cause glitches. By bending circuits, manipulating codes and deleting raw data, we can exploit flaws and make them interesting works of art.
Opinions on glitch photography art come in many shapes and sizes, but the fundamental question concerning it is a personal one: is it art to you? But more importantly: do you like it?
If you have some glitch photos , please share it here .
@ingrid2101 while I am really liking the results - I am dubious about the "art" aspect... Or rather - the degree to which it can be said that the human artist produced the resulting piece if art... Personally, I would be disinclined to engage in this kind if art... The control freak in me, doncha know ;p
@northy Ha ha! I know where you're coming from, but I do like the results too. If you start off with a good picture though, well composed, colours etc then it's just adding an element perhaps ? One of the most fun days at college was using the photo as an object so we were using heat guns, dyeing them, sticking bits of tape on to mask areas etc etc and it was great fun and quite liberating - from another control freak ;)
Love the results... Art is anything, Warhol showed us that. These glitches are making the art, we made the glitches. We don't live organically anymore, so art should show this. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... :) love abstraction. Oh and we have to have taken the original shot for it to ever have been created.
I've tried to mimic some of these pieces posted by @gavincci with Photoshop and it is a challenge by hand or from scratch. I've played with Decim8 as well. I think this is really interesting and in many cases works very well for art. Great stuff and thanks for the info!
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I've tried to mimic some of these pieces posted by @gavincci with Photoshop and it is a challenge by hand or from scratch. I've played with Decim8 as well. I think this is really interesting and in many cases works very well for art. Great stuff and thanks for the info!
http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/glitchmap.swf
http://www.madebypi.co.uk/labs/jpeglitch1_0/