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EZM: Tell me when was the last time you have seen a butterfly 

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EZM: Tell me when was the last time you have seen a butterfly 

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Little zine containing gribbly art ive made. made using the EZM! :D. Play in your browser

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'Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding' by Venetian Snares

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'Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding' by Venetian Snares

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Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding, by Venetian Snares

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Video: Rosa Menkman
Music: Extraboy

The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image created by feedback (I turned a high-end camera on a screen that was showing, in real time, what I was filming, creating a feedback loop). Then I glitched the video by changing its format and subsequently exporting it into animated gifs. I (minimalistically) edited the video in Quicktime. Then I sent the file to Extraboy, who composed music for the video. The composing process started with a hand held world radio. Extraboy scanned through frequencies and experimented with holding the radio in different parts of the room while touching different objects. Eventually he got the radio to oscillate noise in the tempo that he perceived in the video. The added synthesizer sounds were played live to further build on the non-digital sound and rhythm. This was later contrasted with drums which were digitally synthesized and processed through effects with a very digital sound to them. Just like with the video, the digital and analogue media and aesthetics of sound are mixed into one coherent whole.

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The Development of Acousmatics in Montréal

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The Development of Acousmatics in Montréal

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CEC | Canadian Electroacoustic Community

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CEC — eContact! 6.2 — The Development of Acousmatics in Montréal by W. Matthew McFarlane

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I am a voyager of videoscapes: I create conceptually synesthetic artworks, that use both visual and aural glitch (or other noise) artifacts at the same time. These artifacts shroud the black box, as a nebula of technology and its inner workings.

The glitches I trigger turn the technology back into the obfuscated box that it already was. They shroud its inner workings and the source of the output as a sublime black veil. I perceive glitches without knowing where they originate from. This gives me an opportunity to concentrate better on its form - to interpret its structures and to learn more from what I can actually see. They create an acousmatic videoscape in which I can finally perceive an output outside of my goggles of speed, transparency and usability. The new structures that unfold themselves can be a portal to an utopia, a paradise like dimension, but also a black hole that threatens to destroy the technology as I knew it.
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How many efforts are required in order to watch

Whenever I use a 'normal', transparent technology, I aim to see 'through' the actual machine. I have learned to unsee its interface and all structural components, to be able to understand its message and use the technology as fast as possible. In a way I have learned to become blind to (certain parts of) technology.

Similar lines of development have taken place in my perception of sound. As Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer wrote: "We have no ear lids. We are condemned to listen. But this does not mean our ears are always open." Over the years I have learned to close my ear lids and even might have lost (or never developed) some of the sensitivities needed for 'deep listening' (or 'deep watching').

The quest to make the public re-hear certain sounds, to educate the listener and to 'open up ear lids', has been a subject pursued by many different sound artists. Acousmatics for instance, a strand of sound art developed by the French composer and pioneer of musique concrète Pierre Schaeffer, lets the audience listen to the sounds originating from behind a "black veil". The source or instrument of the sound remains unseen and unknown while the non-representational or formalist sound forces the audience to focus on active listening.

Another example can be found in Murray Schafers work on soundscapes. In his book The Tuning of the World (1977), Schafer created a subdivision between the different sounds in the world. He uses this not only as a compositional structure, but also to educate his students about the many sounds they have grown accustomed to and as a result no longer hear.

Both Schaeffer and Schafers work involve the studying and education of the perception of sound. And their work has made me wonder, has similar research and work been made in the visual arts? Does some form of acousmatic video or even acousmatic videoscapes exist? What would this look like and could glitches play a role in this form of art?

Glitch art (which is a derivative of technological glitch) is an art form that uses glitches not just on a technological level, but also conceptually and esthetically.

While watching glitch art, the audience perceives glitches without (often) knowing how they came about, which gives them an opportunity to concentrate on their form - to interpret its structures and to learn more from what can actually be seen. In a sense many glitches follow the principle of acousmatics visually.

A videoscape should be a place where artists can create a new, visual ecology that can give playful feedback on the technological conventions that control the spectator in their everyday life. In these conceptually fueled videoscapes we can open our eyes for the unreasonable and give form to what we so often have tried to obfuscate in both audio and visual media, namely artifacts.

The main subject of most glitch art is 'critical perception'. Critical in this sense is twofold; either criticizing the way technology is conventionally perceived, or showing the medium in a critical state. Glitches release a critical potential that forces the viewer to actively reflect on the technology.

The acousmatic videoscape thus uses critical trans-media aesthetics to theorize the human thinking about technology; it creates an opportunity for self reflexivity, self critique and self expression.

The acousmatic videoscape is a space in which I can perceive output outside of my goggles of speed, transparency and usability. The new structures that unfold themselves can be interpreted as a portal to an utopia, a paradise like dimension, but also as a black hole that threatens to destroy the technology as I knew it. Here is a purgatory; an intermediate state between the death of the old technology and a judgement for a possible continuation into a new form of seeing and using, a new perspective...

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Made with ordered dither maker

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I made this video "glitcher" for a Creative Coding assignment. It "glitches" a video stream based on the audio input level and also on your iPhone's accelerometer (if enabled).

https://editor.p5js.org/ryanwmcronald/full/y4xreZLst

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Early glitching? https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color/

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Deep Fried Meme is a meme aesthetic and format that emerged in the mid-to-late 2010s. It is defined by the intentional degradation of image quality through excessive filters, saturation, and compression, resulting in a “crunchy,” high-contrast, and visually abrasive appearance.[1] While originally a meme format for surreal humor, the aesthetic is historically significant as a precursor to the “data degradation” visuals found in 2020s aesthetics like Goreweb and Haunted Mound. The term “Deep…

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Earlier "glitches"? https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color/

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The ceiling of the "women's room" in a Gaudi designed cottage in Barcelona...

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ACSII art

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made with net art generator

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Raccoons in the moonlight By Richard Kevis

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Raccoons in the moonlight By Richard Kevis

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My "Voice of Fire" beside the original. Glitch Image Generator and Flippory

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Made with Chromata

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Easily display your zines on itch.io. Play in your browser

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Experimenting with different image tools as part of IDARESU 2026

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Digital art based on the Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP)

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Digital art based on the Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP)

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Submit a shape for artistic purposes

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A web editor for p5.js, a JavaScript library with the goal of making coding accessible to artists, designers, educators, and beginners.