Glitch Tutorials

A short directory of tutorials from around the web, to help you get started with databending.

Overview of Glitch

Nick Briz's Glitch Codec Tutorial (focus on video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOemlx2sBIo&feature=relmfu

Altering data directly

An Introduction

http://www.fizzpop.org.uk/blog/an-introduction-to-databending/

http://www.fizzpop.org.uk/blog/an-introduction-to-databending/

Using Hex Editors

http://praseodym.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2t0wt4

http://praseodym.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2t0wt4

Glitching Vector Files

http://www.hellocatfood.com/2009/09/08/bending-a-penguin/



Intentionally misusing software to alter image files

The WordPad effect

http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/2008/08/databending-and-glitch-art-primer-part.html

http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/2008/08/databending-and-glitch-art-primer-part.html Cachemash (or: Photoshop Truncation Glitch)

http://danieltemkin.com/blog/post/Photoshop-Truncating-Glitch.aspx

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eaubscene/7752697504/



http://danieltemkin.com/blog/post/Photoshop-Truncating-Glitch.aspx http://www.flickr.com/photos/eaubscene/7752697504/ Sonification Sonification Primer

http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/2008/09/databending-and-glitch-art-primer-part.html Sonification with Audacity

http://www.asoundeffect.com/creative-sound-design-when-glitches-are-a-good-thing/

http://www.hellocatfood.com/2009/11/16/databending-using-audacity/

Datamoshing

http://bitsynthesis.com/2009/04/tutorial-datamoshing-the-beauty-of-glitch/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8



Automated Glitching

Technical info on image file formats

A Vernacular of File Formats -- how images in different formats look when glitched

http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2010/08/vernacular-of-file-formats-2-workshop.html

http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2010/08/vernacular-of-file-formats-2-workshop.html

On Compression -- shows how JPEG Compression Works (PDF)

http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/uploads/Main/OnC.pdf



Blogs that often feature databending

(techniques that require writing or altering code to produce a series of images)

(this is pretty out of date at this point)