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For my final piece for my studies in Digital Arts in Performance at Birmingham City University I collaborated with Alex Botten (aka Thee Moths (RIP)) on a performance piece called Tune In.

(there’s also a performance video of it)

Without revealing too much here, the piece is a trip through memory lane and nostalgia in a world that is moving from analogue to digital.

All of the concepts behind the piece can be explored through the blog that I kept during the development of the piece and also through this video where I explain much of it all in a roundabout way:

It’s definitely a concept that I’ll be revisiting in future works!

I was interviewed by Imperica recently about GLI.TC/H coming to Birmingham.

For the viewer, appreciating Glitch art inevitably depends on the form that the work takes, and an understanding of the work not being “broken” but a new construction in itself. Glitched artwork “… can be beautiful, but it can also be chaotically noisy. It isn’t just an hour of TV static or hard noise. They have a narrative; they tell a story in some way. I want the viewer to see the value in things that are corrupted, bent, and broken.”

Go read it now!

GLI.TC/H comes to the world on the following dates:

• Chicago_USA: Nov 4-6 2011
• Amsterdam_NL: Nov 11-12 2011
• Birmingham_UK: Nov 19 2011

The video for Self-Inflicted Haircut by Meatfeast is now online!

Guess which parts I provided…

For this video I utilised the What Glitch? scripts (specifically the pcx script) and Joe Friedl’s - (aka grampajoe) Autodatamosh Perl script.

You can buy Meatfeast’s EP, Hands Like Claws, on Amazon or listen to it on good ol’ Spotify.

My bumper for GLI.TC/H 2011. Download the Pure Data patch that made this and make your own!

Discuss it with others on the Pure Data forum.

.our_name/website { GLI.TC/H gli.tc/h } .theDates { Chicago_USA: Nov 4-6 2011; Amsterdam_NL: Nov 11-12 2011; Birmingham_UK: Nov 19 2011; }

I’ve also recently started making diagrams of my Pure Data patches. I hope they go some way to helping people learn Pure Data

The making of Skin Cells was quite a long process. It started projecting my Bunnies video onto me and filming this. I then took this and ran it through the What Glitch? sgi script to create a glitched version of the video, leaving me with two versions of the video.

When it came to merging the two videos together I took some inspiration from Tidepool by Tabor Robak. Putting the videos on top of each other I wanted to use chromakeying to reveal parts of the video at the bottom at the same time as really oversaturating the video. For this I employed the help of Pure Data:

By using [pix_chroma_key] and setting the [range( to random values the patch was constantly hiding and revealing random parts of the videos. Some wizardry in Gridflow gave the videos that oversaturated look.

If you want to try this patch for yourself go ahead and download it. Although it may work on other setups, I used the following:

• Ubuntu 11.04
• Pure Data Extended 0.42.5
• Gridflow 9.13

To use the patch, first load a directory of videos, create the GEM window and then press the big red start button. A video is automatically saved (using PDP), though do be careful as these files get very large very quickly! If, for any reason, saving the video doesn’t work just delete the line going from [#from_pix, colorspace rgb] to [#to_pdp].

If any assistance is required please direct your attention to this thread on the Pure Data forum.