My glitch art journey began well over a decade ago. I believe that I made my first glitch image around 2012 and I've been doing glitch and experimental music since 2010. The journey has been fun and I've come a long way since then. My latest glitch fascination has been making experimental videos featuring lines, colors, flashes, and textures that melt your mind. Let's take a deeper look into a few of my recent glitch videos. Here I'll only show screenshots since the full videos are available in the Glitch Department.
Flow Motion
Featuring Lauryn Haling
Flow motion, like many of my other glitch videos was a pretty improvisational project. Lauryn and I planned to shoot and since she's a professional dancer, I captured a few shots of her dancing and flowing freely. Every time we've worked together she absolutely kills it when it comes to posing and presence in front of the camera so I was confident that usable footage would come from a loosely planned session, and I was right!
The set varied quite a bit. One scene she posed in front of a green screen while covering herself with green fabric. Because the lighting was uneven I was able to key out both green surfaces in a unique way even though they were both parts of the same green fabric.
Another scene was taken outside in-front of an "industrial blue, brick wall. This large space allowed her to dance and move freely which creates golden footage for editing.
When I approach the raw footage for glitching, I barely have a plan. I have an idea of what I'm looking for but I'm never really sure how the footage will turn out when glitched. That's part of the magic! I process each clip about 6 times via various glitch methods and end up with like 20+ glitched clips. After that I sit like a kid with legos and chop the clips together to create some sort of visually pleasing sequence.
Cyber Girls
The maximal abstract glitch collage video concept idea was first attempted on my Cyber Girls. As a digital artist I've experimented with generative AI for a long time. Since Google's Deep Dream days. I always prefer to run my models locally using models created by the open source and shareware community. I created a few models of my own that are based on my own work or inspirations and with these models I made a series of "cyber girls" that I animated and gave a bit of life to. Because of my limited computer processing power I was only able to animate them for about 3 or 4 seconds of footage which turned out to be the perfect length for sharp repetitive art.
These shots feel fashionable to me. The motion, the eye contact, the appearance of the subjects all feel fashionable.
Check them out at the Glitch Department.
Projected Canvases
For this project I collaborated used a couple of my friends as muses. Instead of digitally glitching their footage after filming it, I projected glitch textures over their naked bodies as they danced, posed, and spun around. The idea was to create a psychedelic dreamscape that existed both digitally and physically.
This project can also be seen in the Glitch Department.
The Glitch Goes on
I've done quite a few experiments and visual works that display glitch in motion. Many of then can be seen in the Glitch Department along with the others. Some are simple. Some are complex. Some are goofy and some are pretty serious. Head there and check them out.
I have some new ones in the works. Be sure to keep an eye out for them!
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