Glitch art exists as a means of expressing distortion across both analogue and digital media. In this resource guide, you will find useful resources in the forms of software, articles, and examples of visual media which exist only through the corruption of some original piece.

Distort and play with audio and images to create “databent” images and video

“Databending Using Audacity” by Antonio Roberts

“Audacity” is audio editing and recording freeware

My example from Cybergraphics

“Databending Tutorial” from paulhertz.net

“Glitchsort” for Processing 2.0

“Header Remix” by Ted Davis

“Glitch Codec Tutorial” by Nick Briz

“Glitchet Resources” from webzine “Glitchet”

“Digital Image File Types Explained” by Wake Forest University

“The long, twisted history of glitch art” from The Daily Dot

Hexfiend (Mac)

View and modify binary data in files to create simple and complex distortions

“Compression Artifacts” Wikipedia article

“Glitch Art” Wikipedia article

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