Datamoshing is how you call the video technique in this music video “Evident Utensil” for the band Chairlift. I would still call it digital glitches, but datamoshing sounds better (than the music in this video). So no, this video is not f*cked up, Ray Tintori of Court 13 who directed it, did it on purpose.

found at kottke

Text2Image is a little tool created by Ted Davis. Its name is quite self-explanatory, you can submit some text and you’ll get an image back in return. Glitches!

Chris Davenport saved in image in three different file formats. Then the image data was shuffled. Although the 3 images looked the same, their composition is shown to be completely different.