Sometimes great ideas come about as a result of accidents and mistakes, as in the case of photographer and glitch artist , who got the idea for glitching images after discovering some corrupt photos in a friend’s malfunctioning flash memory card. After several years and innumerable experiments, Visconti has now become a true master of his unusual art, using his own source images to create kaleidoscopic and imaginative digital paintings. The principle in all these works is the same: by treating image files in unorthodox ways, you get unusual, and often beautiful results. To achieve this, Visconti has experimented with several methods, including glitching images as if they were 3D objects (in the ‘City of Vapors’ and ‘Little Monsters’ series), using pixel-sorting algorithms (for the ‘Images Adrift’ series), and even treating images as if they were audio (for ‘The Inner Resonance of Things’ series).
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