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I first became aware of glitch art thanks to Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero album. There was something about the VCR-looking graphics that helped highlight the mystery and DIY philosophy of the album.
The way you go about glitch art is pretty cool: you open up a graphics file in a text editor, and hack away at the code. The image that comes out the other end is super random. Hence, glitch.
But now you can automate this stuff using apps. One that I find is really fun and creative is MOSH, a web app that lets you upload image files and glitch them. It’s not over the top and obnoxious, and has a kind of aesthetic to it.
I took a bunch of image files (above) and ran them through MOSH, keeping the aesthetic semi similar with each image. It’s easy to create a whole series of images that have the same look, but still get the glitch look. I really dig the Scanlines filter (giving you that old TV/VCR look), and the Bleach and InstaColor settings.
MOSH is a fun way to make some truly creepy and horror movie-style effects. I do wish the app spit out bigger image files, but the website says an iOS app is coming, so maybe that will help.