Art
Art
Code used as an artistic material: live coding, glitch, ASCII, pixels, teletext. Collected over years, not assembled this afternoon.
Every row has a note, and the ones marked ▶ open and do their thing in the browser right now — no install, no account.
Nothing matches that.
Glitch & databending
33 linksBreaking a file on purpose and keeping what comes out. Databending, dithering, slit-scan, and the people who made it a practice.
- PhotoMosh▶ runsphotomosh.comThe most complete one: sixty-odd real-time effects over image, video, and GIF, exportable.
- stAllio!'s way — databending primerblog.animalswithinanimals.comThe founding databending text: opening a file with the wrong program on purpose. Start here.
- Glitch Art Resourcesphillipstearns.wordpress.comPhillip Stearns's collection, made by an artist in the medium. Chosen from practice, not from outside.
- ajxs / jpk(v2)▶ runsajxs.github.ioControlled JPEG corruption: it manipulates the file, not the pixel.
- Bit Vision▶ runslandonbrand.github.ioReduces the image to bits and lets the error do the rest.
- Bitmap sorter▶ runslarixk.nlPixel sorting: sort an image's pixels and watch it melt.
- Charramba▶ runscharramba.tajnyprojekt.comGlitched, animated type in seconds. Out comes a GIF ready to use.
- Chromata▶ runsmichaelbromley.co.ukTurns a photo into an animated drawing by particles following colour. Let it finish.
- FREE GLITCH ART TOOLSfreestockfootagearchive.comCollection of tools for image, video, text, and sound on a single page.
- Glitch Image Generator▶ runsglitchyimage.comGenerate and save glitched images with no account and no friction.
- Glitch Text Generator▶ runslingojam.comZalgo text with stacked diacritics. Copy and paste where it shouldn't work.
- glitch text generator — stAllio!▶ runsanimalswithinanimals.comstAllio!'s own version, with more control over the damage.
- glitch.coolsamples.glitch.coolGlitch and IDM samples under Creative Commons licences. Material, not a tool.
- Glitch.jssjhewitt.github.ioLibrary for glitching images from code instead of by hand.
- glitch2▶ runsakx.github.ioLayered glitcher with adjustable parameters and a downloadable result.
- GLITCHATRON▶ runserrozero.co.ukJavaScript glitch generator with a very distinct look.
- Glitchy GSAP checkboxescodepen.ioGlitch applied to a form control. The odd case: error aesthetics in real UI.
- Glitchy3bitDither▶ runsjkirchartz.com3-bit dithering and glitch in one place. The forced palette does half the work.
- HTML5 image filter▶ runsanimalswithinanimals.comIn-browser image filters, from the author of the original databending primer.
- HTML5 youtube filter▶ runsanimalswithinanimals.comFilters YouTube or Vimeo video as you watch. Live glitch over someone else's footage.
- image distortion experiment▶ runssnorpey.github.ioWarp an image by dragging a grid. Simple and addictive.
- Image Glitch Tool▶ runssnorpey.github.ioSnorpey's classic: parameter-driven glitch with a reproducible result.
- ImageGlitcher▶ runsairtightinteractive.comQuick glitch with minimal controls. For when you want the effect, not the study.
- James Connollyjameshconnolly.comArchived 2013 talk on glitch art. Good for understanding where all this comes from.
- js Glitch Libalexadam.github.ioAnother JS glitch library, with demos of each effect on its own.
- Moving dots▶ runsdominik.wsDot animation generator. Hypnotic and exportable.
- NO CARRIERno-carrier.comWork by an artist decades deep in this. Context, not a tool.
- Rutt-Etra-Izer▶ runsairtightinteractive.comEmulation of the 1970s Rutt-Etra video synthesiser: the image as a relief of scanlines.
- SLITSCANNER▶ runsslitscanner.appSlit-scan in the browser and on the phone: warping time into a single image.
- snorpey's experimentssnorpey.github.ioThe index of all his experiments. Half the section below comes from here.
- stAllio! — primer parte 3: el GIFblog.animalswithinanimals.comThe GIF instalment, where databending gets more visual and more controllable.
- VHS Glitch Shader (WebGL)codepen.ioVHS shader: noise, colour bleed, and desync. The code is the recipe.
- Video Ditheringcodepen.ioReal-time dithering over video, in a pen short enough to read end to end.