This, then, is what Pixel Sorter does: For every image it receives via at-mention on Twitter, it glitches it using one of a number of presets.
Around that same time, he also discovered one of the first Twitter image bots, which Spurr-Chen says “runs a faulty PNG compression algorithm against images and messes them up in an awesome way.” Inspired to create his own image bot, he reached out to creators, who pointed him in the right direction from there, he found a Ruby pixel sorting library available on Github “written by another developer who did all the hard work, really,” Spurr-Chen says. So why glitch art? “I honestly can't remember at this point ,” Spurr-Chen says he thinks it may have started with finding some glitches in the games he was playing and eventually stumbling upon the r/glitch_art subreddit (his favorite glitch artists include Creation by Destruction, aka Clif Pottberg Collageno, aka Nicholas Kouri James Usill and Clara Luzian). Eventually, I got into building websites to promote that server, and it eventually segued into a career doing web development.”
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“I wanted to run my own game server and make mods for it,” he says, “ I didn't know how to code or where to begin.” So, he hit the books: “I bought one of those six-inch thick reference manuals to teach myself Java. He later attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he majored in Video and Film Arts - during which time he also got really into Minecraft. Spurr-Chen, who also curates the glitch art newsletter Glitchet, tells Bustle via email that he grew up around computers and spent a lot of his early childhood playing video games like StarCraft and modding the first Sims game. A glitch in its natural state may ostensibly be a “mistake,” but that doesn't stop it from looking absolutely gorgeous at the same time - which is exactly what glitch art gets at.
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As Wired noted in 2010, there's some debate over when the term “glitch art” actually applies wrote Duncan Geere at the time, “Many argue that it can only apply when a glitch is unintentional - when it occurs naturally due to an error in hardware or software that leads to the corruption of whatever it is the artist was trying to create.” Using a technique called databending, though, glitches can be caused intentionally, making them a medium like any other - paint, clay, you name it. It's just that cool.įirst things first: What the heck is glitch art? At it's simplest, it's pretty much what it sounds like - that is, art that harnessing the unique look of glitches caused by bugs in computer programs, images, videos, and other forms of digital information. He does it all, from programming to music), Pixel Sorter brings glitch art to the masses via some clever coding… and I definitely just lost a boatload of time to it.
Created by front-end developer and Renassaince man Way Spurr-Chen (I'm not kidding, you guys - check out his website.
This is probably why I dig the Twitter bot so much: makes images into glitch art, and all you have to do to make the magic happen is tweet at it. I don't believe absolute perfection exists - and moreover, I think there's a lot of beauty to be found in imperfection.
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