![]() ![]() Photoshop’s halftone pattern (found under Filter › Pixelate › Colour Halftone) can simulate scan lines when it’s set to the Line option. The subtle background video effects of old CRT tube displays provide a basis for the mood and feel of glitch effects. Nothing says “glitchy retro technology” like the scan lines of an old television set. To create glitch art is to create intentional “accidents.” Like pixel art, which draws inspiration from retro technology’s limitations, glitch art takes the shortcomings of the previous era’s technology and transforms them into haunting, enigmatic imagery. Glitch art is the deliberate duplication of old media’s mistakes. Actual distortions in retro media like VHS were accidental and modern technology has made those accidents obsolete. To create these images, a modern artist cannot rely on fraying tape or failing cathode ray tubes. Just as Eno predicted, tracking errors and the bent lines of degraded analogue media are now an aesthetic artists are using in their work. ![]() “CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.” “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature,” artist and producer Brian Eno wrote in his 1996 book A Year with Swollen Appendices. ![]()
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