Glitch art is a genre of art based around digital artefacts. A digital artefact is the unexpected result of when a technology breaks. An artefact could be sound of a CD skipping or pixilation on a highly compressed Youtube video. Glitch has been called the “art of the artefact” and stretching the intended use of a device or file.
Selfies are pretty terrible and associated with massive amounts of ego. Take the hubris and arrogance exemplified by Selfies at Funerals and Rich Kids of Instagram and apply them to a historical or literary figure on the eve of an impending disaster.
You can see more examples and get a Photoshop template file here.
Using layers in an image editing program make a time line that tells a story. Tips: make it short and include events that lead up to the main event.
Most likely your backyard has a story to tell. Or perhaps a park nearby will share its secrets. With this assignment take your camera on a photo safari to capture interesting images of a place you frequent. Cull your photos down to the best 5-10 images that when combined will tell a story. Create a slide show and embed it into your blog. Include a written or audio story telling component as well to help flesh out the story for your viewers.
See example at: Bygone Backyard Photo Safari
Using Photoshop or another image editing program create an image inwhich you combine two animals that traditionally hate each other to form a new hybrid animal. Consider adding text.
So we cannot go back in time…. but can you recreate a pose of someone’s old photograph with them doing the same pose in the present? Make a photograph of someone holding their own old photo, with them trying to replicate the expression.
Try to recapture the then and now story of that moment in time.
Combine a cat pic with an appropriate Shakespearean quotation. Based on the work of Laura Gibbs.
Visualize what would be your greatest fear outside your window at night.
I like to say this phrase a lot “You’re doing it wrong.” Just as dry and monotone as I can manage. If it’s timed perfectly, I can’t amuse myself better any other way. Your assignment is to find the best possible photo you can of someone or something “doing it wrong.” Sometimes people drive the wrong way on a one-way street or there are signs or stairs that point or lead nowhere. Find something wrong and riff on it. Two stars, cause it’s a photo that might take some hunting but no editing is required.
8-bit art is all the rage right now, and what is so compelling about it is that it’s all around us. Find or create 8-bit art in your real-world environment and photograph it so that you can share it here and actually get credit! Free yourself of the prison that is your computer, find 8-bit art in nature and release your inner-hippie.
