Italian architect Ferruccio Laviani designed the "Good Vibrations" cabinet as part of the 2013 Furniture Exhibition for Italian manufacturer Fratelli Boffi, capturing the aesthetic of glitch IRL.
The 1947 film noir Nora Prentiss gets a remix from Flickr user Hugh Manon, as Ann Sheridan talks to a computerized ghost.
Off his 2012 America release, Dan Deacon unleashed the official music video for his four-part suite "USA" earlier this summer. A collaboration with Adult Swim, the video was created by director Dave Hughes with visuals from artists around the world. Watch city nightlife, safari landscapes and even the Northern Lights, all screwed and mixed up in this 22-minute visual feast, set to Deacon's appropriately lush and glitchy soundtrack.
Argentina-based artist Glitchrama uses a scanner to manipulate bills into weird and sometimes funny images of famous South American figures.
Caroline Polachek of Brooklyn duo Chairlift is known for some weird costumes and moves onstage, so this psychedelic video from 2009, directed by Ray Tintori, of their 2007 single is not too unexpected. Watch Polachek and co.'s melting faces as they dance in a grassy field.
Mexican artist Ciler uses basic photoediting and a small scanner to create haunting images from magazine photos of a vintage, propaganda'd past.
Directed by Australian film director Nabil Elderkin, Kanye West's 2009 music video for "Welcome to Heartbreak" features datamoshed, chopped up visuals of West and Kid Cudi.
Take the iconic Simpsons couch scene, misplace a couple of eyes and noses and you'll have this surrealist rendition from Flickr user Max Capacity.
Here's a minute-long video of a colorful bear whipping its ears back and forth to an airy Atlas Sound backtrack.
Glitch Safari is a collection of aggregated submissions of real glitch art found "in the wild," such as television screens or LED displays. This disturbing image is a capture of a glitchy television broadcast.
A piece of true glitch art that turns an innocent hobbit into a freaky, noseless Frodo.
Don't adjust your screen; there's nothing wrong with it. That glitchy image is supposed to look like that.
Amidst today's airbrushed magazine spreads and seamless interfaces, some have discovered beauty in the broken. Cue lo-fi revival bands, 8-bit animation and the entire GIF aesthetic.
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Glitch art tends to spotlight digital or analog "mistakes" and feature them in an artistic light. Mixed with the nostalgia of the not-so-perfect, glitch art sits alongside the revival movements of film photography, vinyl and now cassettes as we reminisce about a pixelated, slightly antiquated past.
Taking an art form all its own, glitch art not only glorifies the broken aesthetic; artists are also recreating, remixing and chopping up perfectly fine modern examples into screwy faux-relics. Call it bricolage, post-postmodernism, whatever, glitch art is kind of like Instagram in binary code: putting old-school web 1.0 filters onto imagery of the present.
Prominent types of glitch art include databending or datamoshing, which stretches the confines of what a file or machine is supposed to do to all the things it is capable of doing.
For example, take a music file, change the .mp3 extension into a .raw extension and open up a "song" with Photoshop to reveal an "image" of the song. Likewise, take an image file, change the .jpg extention to .txt, open up the file with a text editor, edit it, then change it back into an image file — you'll have a glitchy, corrupted image.
We gathered a roundup of some creepily beautiful pieces of glitch art and videos in the gallery above. Take a look and let us know what your own favorites are in the comments below.
Image: Flickr, eaubscene.