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“I hope that one’s super glitched-out”
it was beautiful :) You mentioned somewhere in there that you love the idea of twiddling knobs that have no meaning to you yet cause distortions and effects to appear; Nam June Paik collaborated with Shuya Abe to make a machine for exactly that purpose: http://davidsonsfiles.org/paikabesythesizer.html honestly i am in love with nam june paik and it is a shame that he is dead because my god what art he could have made with modern telecommunications equipment.
New trucks! My favorite in a while.
I’ve been wanting to do one on the subject of algorithm-derived art for some time, and the glitch deity gave us a perfect excuse by spontaneously transforming our old Vaporwave episode (of all the videos on YouTube!) into a fascinating jumble of broken MPEG compression. The computer went ahead and made art without anybody asking it to, and we were lucky enough to document it before it vanished. We only had a single day with it before the video turned back to normal. It was flabbergasting to me that this happened in the first place - that we were lucky enough to notice it in time to capture it feels like a genuine miracle.
One really special thing about it was that it rendered differently depending on the machine viewing it, which in a sense turns every iteration into a generative collaboration between YouTube’s servers and individual PCs. The only YouTube video I’ve ever known to work that way! Here’s a bunch of links to some of the visuals this produced, and some extra thoughts.
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