Comment by bawolff
6 hours ago
You know, i was all ready to be dismissive of this, using encoder errors for art sounds silly.
But i watched the video and it really was cool and artistic.
6 hours ago
You know, i was all ready to be dismissive of this, using encoder errors for art sounds silly.
But i watched the video and it really was cool and artistic.
Plenty of incredible works of art and story telling use glitch art to evoke feelings and notions of "brokenness" or surreality. Some pieces that come to mind are Adventure Time S5E15: A Glitch is a Glitch, created by artist David OReilly[0] and the music video for A$AP Mob - Yamborghini High made by editor Uncle Luc[1].
This of course doesnt even begin to touch on the influences glitch art has had on music and audio - it's arguable that glitch art has its origins in printing, photography/film, and in electronic music, but most deliberate uses of "glitches" as artistic vehicles tended to arise during the early eras of electronic music production. Rosa Menkman speaks in depth about the origins of glitch art in the music scene in her paper The Glitch Moment(um)[2].
0. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/25/datamoshing-land-o...
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt7gP_IW-1w
2. https://mediarep.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/b16c898a-c6b...
The quintessential example of glitch art, imo, is Adult Swim's Off the Air, which compiles various short animations and music cut together with various datamoshed transitions. While the glitch stuff isn't always the central focus it definitely goes a long way towards setting the trippy vibe they're going for.
There are too many excellent episodes to list but Animals is a great one to get a feel: https://youtu.be/59QBOO6m210
And the Dan Deacon USA special episode might be peak Off The Air:
https://youtu.be/9X4fYP9bqqw