“What do Miss Piggy, Britney Spears, Mussolini, Super Mario Bros., Charlie Rose, John Key, Ruth Richardson and Buster Keaton have in common? They are all the subjects of avant-garde films on YouTube. Film maker and academic Dick Whyte presents a screening of recent avant-garde films he has curated from YouTube. All of them re-purpose existing material into new works.

“Whyte says, “Technology has taken a long time to get to the point where video makers can sample with the same abandon as musicians and still image makers. YouTube heralds a new age in avant-garde cinema which is fully engaged with popular media.” The screening will be accompanied by short introductions to the films and their particular strategies, looking at the function of avant-garde moving-image at the beginning of the twenty-first century.” — New Zealand Film Archive

The show was screened at the Film Archive Mediatheatre, Wellington, in January of this year. See all films from the presentation at Whyte’s blog.

Just a quick word for a blog I started up months ago but never gave the time it deserved. Up until now, I’ve been posting glitched up stuff on the Illarterate blog, but I’ve decided to give Autoglitcher another chance, at least for a while. I’ll look to retrospectively post some of my glitch art excursions from the past few months if I can get round to it this weekend.

As the title suggests, this site’s all about interesting glitches in television, video games and general media. The idea of autoglitching relates to those glitches you seemingly stumble across or have little input in, especially those created completely by accident.

A must for all fans of glitch art, even if I do say so myself.

I love it when this stuff happens unexpectedly.

…by getting it gloriously wrong.

Actually quite glad I got this on tape. I may start purposely trying to record this stuff more often, perhaps over the course of a few months, and edit together some sort of mega glitch video. That would be awesome.

I don’t hold out much hope of winning – a lot of the other entries are miles better than mine – but you never know. You can read up a bit more on the development of this project in the posts listed below.

• Teleglitcher forerunner vid @ Pixel is Power
• E4 Telegltcher Work in Progress @ Pixel is Power
• E4 stings ‘lost’ outtake @ General Illarteracy
• Some still screens

There must be something worth doing with these. I was thinking a rainbow of YouTube glitchery.

Having said that, it all seems very green. Maybe a project juxtaposing the natural and the digital? A landscape made up of YouTube glitches?

Some companies’ corporate logos don’t look as cool as these.

^ This one in particular looks a bit like a futuristic skyline.

More greenery here. I wonder if this is how those magic eye pictures work? I can never do them.

A message from the anti-digital organisation.

The titular video heading the Analogue Propaganda project, which explores non-analogue glitching and questions whether digital television really does provide a better viewing experience. The speech was grabbed from this vid on YouTube.

Visuals captured on a glitched up Freeview box. Sound is a mix of various glitch noises.