One more with the glitch process.

Another iteration of the glitch program that I have been working on, this time as an animated gif.

I wrote a little Processing sketch that randomly fucks with the byte data of image files. The result is glitched image files. Lots of them. That I can animate. Click on the image above for the movie.

I will hopefully have more iterations of this soon. I kind of like this idea, going along with some previous ideas that I was working with, but from a different direction - that of manipulating the data directly, as opposed to creating the image of it. Let’s see where this goes.

I was at the downtown San Francisco Nordstrom today (believe it or not, I am actually not there on a regular basis) and ran across an interesting holiday addition. I’m not sure if it was intentional or not, but the strings of lights cascading down the center of the store bear a remarkable to the work of Félix González-Torres, specifically his 1994 piece, Untitled (America) that was featured at the U.S. pavilion in this year’s Venice Biennale.

Below are photos of the two. Judge for yourself.

The Nordstrom lights
Photo Credit: Ian Bartholomew

This is also kind of blowing my mind at the moment. From the guys over at c505.

A video of a pixel abstraction, taking as it’s source, a static digital photograph of my good friend, and reoccurring subject matter, Amy. Click on the above image for the video, or click here.

One of my favorite pieces at the Venice Biennale, Democrazy by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli. It stars Sharon Stone and media philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy. The Guardian has a nice little write up here.

The only thing to note is that the videos were shown at the biennale in an small American themed rotunda, with the videos on opposite sides, facing each other. Those details really make the piece.