Artist’s Statement
“For a more creative brain, embrace constraints.”
Our group consists of four makers, creatives, and artists. We are all versed in different mediums and crafts – from photography and videography to graphic design and illustration. This class and this final project challenged us to create with new constraints and in a new way – through code.
Using inspiration from former TAM classes, and our knew programming knowledge, we created an “app” that would allow users to create glitch art. Glitch art is a genre we have discussed in our other TAM classes, and this project challenged us to integrate our knowledge of other classes, creating an interdisciplinary final project.
This is our interface, made to look like a phone app.
Some of the images produced by classmates during the final demo presentation.
Demo Video
User’s Guide
This code was written to function similarly to an application you would find on an app store. Therefore, the user flow should be pretty self-explanatory.
Click-ing on one of the filter options, (for example: RGB shift) prompts the user to choose an image file. The code executes the filter and returns the altered image back to the user. We have provided a folder of sample images to use for testing purposes.
However, there is one filter specific caveat for the double exposure filter: The user is prompted to choose *two* images to make the double exposure instead of one. These images must have the exact same aspect ratio as well as be the exact same pixel length on each side for this filter to work.
Code/Repository
Download the entire guiGlitchSubmission folder and select the media folder when it asks for media. We also have included a folder of small-sized sample images to use!
Errata – What’s Broken?
Double Exposure – In order to successfully execute the double exposure filter, one must use pictures of the *exact* same size. Ideally, we would like this filter to work with pictures that are the same aspect ratio but may be different sizes.
RGB Shift – We are satisfied with this code.
Weather Color – We are satisfied with this code.
Corrupt – We are satisfied with this code.
Section Swap – This code swaps the exact same sections every time, and it’s not very random or glitchy. We would like to improve this code to be able to switch different sections randomly to make it look a bit more glitchy.
