Glitch Art

Tutorial from: https://www.frontrowsociety.com/frs/how-to-easily-create-glitch-art/ The assignment is to create a high-concept work of Glitch Art. The final piece will be a 5 second video comprising of animated Glitch Art images of a work of pop culture (tv show, music, computer game, movie, etc.) accompanied by glitched audio. The visuals must include images from the piece of pop culture (the original image and 2 glitched versions), plus screen grabs of the code you manipulated to create the glitched pictures.

FOR Glitched Images

STEP 1: Select an Image Select any image to glitch, any format will work but the results could be different so we recommend you try it out with different file formats: TIFF, JPG, RAW, BMP… STEP 2: Duplicate the image Now listen up! It’s very important to duplicate the images you want to glitch because you can destroy them forever. We don’t want to feel responsible for that! STEP 3: Open “Text Edit” Open the “Text Edit” application and open the image you want to glitch in it. You should see a whole bunch of weird text lines. STEP 4: Destroy the code! Now this is the fun part! We hate these kinds of boring codes so it should be a pleasure to destroy them! But be careful with the first 1/4 part of the code, don’t touch it or the image will be damaged forever. So go for the last 3/4 of the code, add new random text, copy a line or two of code and paste it somewhere else in the text file. Or you can also use the “Find And Replace” tool to replace a lot of glyphs in a fast way. Make what you want, but above all – destroy the code! STEP 5: Save it Now you have to save the code, but don’t click “save as”, click “save” (CMND+ S) or the glitch will not run. STEP 5: Animate it Create an animated GIF in Photoshop (Window > Animation) and export (File > Export > Render Video). Open in an editing program and add your audio.

FOR Glitched Audio

STEP 1: Save an audio file as a .raw file.

STEP 2: Open in in Photoshop

STEP 3: Experiment with drawing lines on the image.

STEP 4: Re-save as an audio file