CORRUPT™ and Glitch Browser - Fun Ways to Mess With Your Images

February 12, 2009

In today's world of intentional effects and Photoshop filters, we've come to experience a lot of expected results. But what about the beauty of data corruption?

Well, with CORRUPT™, you can upload a picture (in .jpg format) and it will be turned into something, well, corrupted. CORRUPT™ was created by artist BNJMN™ GAULON, who is very much into recycling data.

He's very concerned with the way we throw our technology away, and some of his art projects highlight better ways we can eliminate terrible disposal practices.

If these pictures look strange, it is intentional. But sometimes pictures corrupt unintentionally. The phrase 'glitch art' has been coined to describe this effect. One might say that this is intentional glitch art, becasue a button is pressed with the intent of creating the glitches.

But it is beautiful. A bit like film developed with a chemical inbalence in a photo lab. This is technically the digital equivalent of that. The idea of the digital space as a medium that is as impure and as beautiful as real life seems to show here. But I'll leave that for you to decide when you it out at Recyclism. 

Glitch Browser - Mess Up Your Browsing Experience

Like glitches a lot? There's a more intense way to experience them. With the Glitch browser, you can turn your entire browsing experience into a Glitch.

The Page you are looking for may have been Glitched. The Glitchbrowser is a joint collaborative artwork developed between Dimitre Lima (dmtr.org), Tony Scott (beflix.com) and Iman Moradi (organised.info) for New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Try it out at GlitchBrowser.com.

Your Turn

Do you have a cool way to make glitches? Do you have any glitch art to share? I'd love to see it. Post a link below or tweet it to me @caseorganic.