glitcherie

digital collages, paintings & video still series, .png, .pdf, .mov,  2021 – ongoing

glitch art is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.

wikipedia

 

there are many ways

in how to generate and/or use errors in digital images, or sounds. some daw’s let you even open images and play their sound. i have worked with many different techniques, but eventually there was one way that got me into glitch art.

how to: hack a picture with lyrics & poems

there is especially this one reason why I fell in love in creating image glitches. the process gives the opportunity to hide messages, letters, symbols, or – in my case – lyrics and poems inside a picture.
there are different ways to open an image file. either by using an image viewer software or by using a text editor (or hex editor, or …).

for a while, i decided to go with text editors. when the digital image file is being opened, it shows the picture’s code. i then added lyrics or poems in between the thousands of lines of coding. afterward, i would either leave the image as is or use parts of it for bigger collages.