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Atari 2600 PAL Palette Hoodie

ooooh yeeeee. #irl #atari #2600 #pal palette #hoodie

A photo posted by Sebastian Tomczak (@littlescale) on Aug 25, 2015 at 2:42am PDT

Sausage Fattener VST as Graphic Effect

Before being fattened: 

After the fattening: 

Rosa Menkman is Speaking in Adelaide on June 13th

The Dutch artist and theorist Rosa Menkman will be presenting next week in Adelaide.

--- WHEN ---
5PM ++, Thursday, 13 June


--- WHERE ---
EMU Computer Suite, Room 4.05,
Schulz Building, University of Adelaide
North Terrace Campus


--- ROSA MENKMAN ---
rosa-menkman.blogspot.com

Every technology possesses its own inherent accidents. Rosa Menkman focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in both analogue and digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Menkman emphasizes their positive consequences.

By combining both her practical as well as her academic background, Menkman merges her abstract pieces within a grand theory of artifacts (a glitch studies). Besides the creation of a formal "Vernacular of File Formats", within her static work, she also creates work in her Acousmatic Videoscapes. In these Videoscapes she strives to connect both sound and video artifacts conceptually, technically and sometimes narratively.

In 2011 Rosa wrote the Glitch Moment/um, a book on the exploitation and popularization of glitch artifacts (published by the Institute of Network Cultures), organized the GLI.TC/H festivals in both Chicago and Amsterdam and co-curated the Aesthetics symposium of Transmediale 2012. Besides this, Rosa Menkman is pursuing a PhD at Goldsmiths, London under the supervision of Matthew Fuller and Geert Lovink.

Adeladie Tuxedo Cat Wall Art

Controlled Corruption: Mass JPG Killer (Batch Glitch)

A simple glitch tool that lets you load a binary file (e.g. JPG), and then "glitch" it in a similar way eight times simultaneously.

An offset can be set, so as to bypass glitching the header component of a file. 

The "glitch" is a repeating byte (from 00 - FF) inserted at repeating period of X number of bytes.

This byte is a replacement byte i.e. no other bytes are moved, only the byte at X period length is replaced.

Thus, things can be explored, like:
• identical period length, different byte "corruption"
• identical byte value "corruption", different period length
• phase interactions and file structure using diferent period lengths
• and so on

Usage is simple:
• Click on "read" to read a binary file such as a JPG
• Set an offset in the master section (the upper row in line with read) - this will set the offset for all eight outputs
• Suggested offset is around 2000 bytes
• Set a data in the master section (the upper row in line with read) - this will set the data byte that is used for replacement i.e. inserted into as a "corruption" for all eight outputs
• Set a period in the master section (the upper row in line with read) - this will set the period length of the repeating glitch where the data is inserted into the file
• Suggested minimum period length is around 100 - 200 bytes
• You can also change these values individually for each eight outputs
• Once happy with the settings, hit the toggle next to read (the little square).
• The patch will generate eight text file windows with hex values in them.
• Copy and past the first one
• Open up Hexfiend
• Create a new Hexfiend file
• Paste into the hex area
• Save as a blah.jpg
• Repeat the last five steps for separate text file inputs and .JPG hex data outputs, saving each one to a new .JPG file
• Note that not all of the outputs will always result in readable files!
•Experiment :D


Download the Max patch here: http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/downloads/max_patches/BULK_JPG_GLITCHER.zip

Download hex fiend from over here: http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/

The Max patch requires Max 6 or the free Max 6 runtime





You can see some example output here: http://www.little-scale.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/controlled-corruption-phase-base.html

More examples by Diode Milliampere:

Controlled Corruption: Phase-based Comparison of Dummy Data Replacement

Each image has been corrupted in an identical manner - after an offset of 0x800, the value 0xC5 replaced a byte every 200th, 201st, 202nd, 203rd, 204th and 205th byte within the body of the file, respectively (i.e. with the first file, every 200th byte was replaced with 0xC5; in the second, it was every 201st byte etc).

This resulted in similar glitches, whereby the input and glitch parameters were very precisely controlled.

Kaleidoscope Sparkler Movie as Drone Music Controller

Iterative MP4 Compression

25 Kaleidoscope Images of a Sparkler

Rosa Menkman: "The Glitch Art Genre" on Ofluxo

"As the popularisation and cultivation of glitch artifacts is now spreading more widely, it is interesting to track the development of these processes and their consequences. One of these consequences is that we can consider glitch as an artistic genre. But what does saying ‘glitch is a genre’ actually mean?" 


http://www.ofluxo.net/the-glitch-art-genre-by-rosa-menkman/

Flash / EEPROM Music: Generating VGA Visuals

An Arduino generates H and V sync timing for a VGA signal, whilst the most significant three bits of an Flash chip's DAC audio output is being jammed down the throat of the red, green and blue inputs of the monitor.

More info on how the audio is generated here: http://little-scale.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/flash-eeprom-music-29f010-sample.html

Nice Wave Shoes

by Lauren

Recursive Palm Trees of ExtraFile .4BC File Format