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51. glitchspace.  first in series of glitch cycles:

start with 64x64 black jpeg (low quality)

take the byte right in the middle of the file. increase it by one.

draw resulting jpeg.

zoom in a lil bit.

Gay Check Online by  Netro (Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach)

Gay Check Online may seem totally offensive and inappropriate at first, but think back to reports in March 2013 that Facebook had sussed out that someone was gay without many clues to go on, hinting at perhaps an algorithmic, Bayesian deduction that was unfavourably made available to ad placement software. The artists are clearly commenting on the hidden motives of data-mining and statistical analysis being carried out by services such as Facebook. Categories for people that are useful for ad targeting are usually decided using Bayesian Probability - the system may not know your age, gender, political or sexual orientation, but your online behaviour may match a certain pattern that helps ‘predict’ such details.

Gay-Check-Online makes visible and parodies these systems using face detection software and an algorithm that works under ten seconds. 

BitTorrent Trilogy

Collection of videos comprising of glitches from corrupted BitTorrent feeds of popular television shows, put together by artist Conor McGarrigle. You may already be aware of the Mad Men video, but the collection also features Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad - videos embedded below:

The BitTorrent Trilogy consists of a series of three videos made from episode of popular TV shows incompletely downloaded from the internet via bittorrent. The resulting videos show the glitches and digital errors characteristic of this process …

… The videos simultaneously act as a visualisation of bittorrent traffic and the practice of filesharing as well as being an aesthetically beautiful and unique by-product of the bittorrent process, the file codec and the size of the bittorrent swarm as the pieces of the original file are rearranged and reconfigured into a new transitory in-between state.

RoRoD

Game installation by Jorge Nuno Coutinho where computer and human compete in a game of arcade classic Breakout - the difference being real players use actual balls to eliminate bricks - video embedded below:

Revenge of Revenge of Doh (RoRoD) is an interactive installation based on the video game Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh (Taito, 1987). Just like in any other Breakout clone, the player’s goal in this game is to break bricks on the top of the screen using a ball.

Revenge of Revenge of Doh isn’t different in any way, but it does expand this concept. Players are playing “against the computer”, competing in each level to see who’s able to destroy the biggest amount of bricks. The computer uses the classical method of bouncing a ball with a paddle. The players, on the other hand, employ the much more natural method of actually throwing a physical ball against the wall where the screen is projected.