This week’s Lectorial focused on remix and glitch, which is quite interesting. The lecturer is Daniel Binns. At the very beginning of the lectorial, Dan played a piece of music and asked us to listen carefully. Because I’m not familiar with English songs, I didn’t get the feature of this music. But after a while, I realised that the styles and rhythm of this music kept changing. Dan gave an introduction to remix, which I found is very cool.

Another thing he mentioned in the lectorial was glitch, which reminded me of my elective course-alternative photographic process. Dan showed us some photos and videos involve glitch art, which I like pretty much. In the photographic process course, we have learnt how to make glitch photos, which is really awesome. I could make easy glitch photo myself.

The process is quite easy. Here is some detail on the steps:

Creating Glitching Images with MAC

STEP 1: Select an Image

Select any image to glitch, any format will work but the results could be different so we recommend you try it out with different file formats: TIFF, JPG, RAW, BMP…

STEP 2: Duplicate the image

Now listen up! It’s very important to duplicate the images you want to glitch because you can destroy them forever. We don’t want to feel responsible for that!

STEP 3: Open “Text Edit”

Open the “Text Edit” application and open the image you want to glitch in it. You should see a whole bunch of weird text lines.

STEP 4: Destroy the code!

Now this is the fun part! We hate these kinds of boring codes so it should be a pleasure to destroy them! But be careful with the first 1/4 part of the code, don’t touch it or the image will be damaged forever. So go for the last 3/4 of the code, add new random text, copy a line or two of code and paste it somewhere else in the text file. Or you can also use the “Find And Replace” tool to replace a lot of glyphs in a fast way. Make what you want, but above all – destroy the code!

STEP 5: Save it

Now you have to save the code, but don’t click “save as”, click “save” (CMND+ S) or the glitch will not run.

STEP 6: Glitch art!

Now open the glitched image and see what you’ve created! Remember that you can edit it with “Text Edit” as many times as you want, until you like the result.

The glitch process is different for Mac or Windows platforms, and I just have tried Mac.

Below is a glitch photo I made.