Comments on: Short PBS documentary about Glitch Art http://boingboing.net/2012/08/09/short-pbs-documentary-about-gl.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 04:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anarcissie http://boingboing.net/2012/08/09/short-pbs-documentary-about-gl.html#comment-1503794 Anarcissie Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175774#comment-1503794 Isn't this stuff pretty old?  Many years ago -- back in the 70s -- I had a 'distressed' color TV hanging on my wall which cycled through various patterns and occasionally flicked up a few distorted frames from broadcasts.  I guess I could have gotten a grant for it, or sold it to someone.  Instead, eventually it fell off the wall and went the way of all televisions.  Now I have computers to do that sort of thing. Isn’t this stuff pretty old?  Many years ago — back in the 70s — I had a ‘distressed’ color TV hanging on my wall which cycled through various patterns and occasionally flicked up a few distorted frames from broadcasts.  I guess I could have gotten a grant for it, or sold it to someone.  Instead, eventually it fell off the wall and went the way of all televisions.  Now I have computers to do that sort of thing.

]]> By: rrh http://boingboing.net/2012/08/09/short-pbs-documentary-about-gl.html#comment-1503456 rrh Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175774#comment-1503456 The one fella briefly mentioned the idea of glitching an audio file by editing it as a .RAW but they chickened out of playing what that sounds like. Sound is capable of being so much more abrasive than visuals, and they probably didn't want to disrupt the energy of the video. The one fella briefly mentioned the idea of glitching an audio file by editing it as a .RAW but they chickened out of playing what that sounds like.

Sound is capable of being so much more abrasive than visuals, and they probably didn’t want to disrupt the energy of the video.

]]> By: Vincenzo Ravina http://boingboing.net/2012/08/09/short-pbs-documentary-about-gl.html#comment-1503413 Vincenzo Ravina Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175774#comment-1503413 I remember breaking Calculator on Windows 95 by opening it up in text and deleting stuff. I remember breaking Calculator on Windows 95 by opening it up in text and deleting stuff.

]]> By: Phillip David Stearns http://boingboing.net/2012/08/09/short-pbs-documentary-about-gl.html#comment-1503314 Phillip David Stearns Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175774#comment-1503314 Agreed.  I mentioned that Glitch was first a genre of music where artifacts from the digital playback devices were used as musical material, but they could only cram in so much.  Really big fan of "Cracked Media" by Caleb Kelly, BTW.  Goes to show the emphasis on visual culture online. Agreed.  I mentioned that Glitch was first a genre of music where artifacts from the digital playback devices were used as musical material, but they could only cram in so much.  Really big fan of “Cracked Media” by Caleb Kelly, BTW.  Goes to show the emphasis on visual culture online.

]]> By: Crashproof http://boingboing.net/2012/08/09/short-pbs-documentary-about-gl.html#comment-1503300 Crashproof Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175774#comment-1503300 Kinda disappointed that this is all visual art with barely a mention of glitch music, and certainly no examples of it.  People were scratching up LPs, shipping them without  covers, forcing CDs to skip, and so on long before they were databending digital images. Kinda disappointed that this is all visual art with barely a mention of glitch music, and certainly no examples of it.  People were scratching up LPs, shipping them without  covers, forcing CDs to skip, and so on long before they were databending digital images.

]]> By: Stephen Schenck http://boingboing.net/2012/08/09/short-pbs-documentary-about-gl.html#comment-1503256 Stephen Schenck Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175774#comment-1503256 One big problem I had with the new film V/H/S is that it uses a ton of these glitch effects, and while they all look quite nice, few actually look like the sort of glitches you'd really get with IRL webcams/DV tape/VHS etc. The Emily/James segment was particularly bad; webcams just don't use codecs like that. One big problem I had with the new film V/H/S is that it uses a ton of these glitch effects, and while they all look quite nice, few actually look like the sort of glitches you’d really get with IRL webcams/DV tape/VHS etc. The Emily/James segment was particularly bad; webcams just don’t use codecs like that.

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