Glitch Studies on TouchDesigner
Ongoing visual research Explorations in signal distortion, color fracture, and image instability through real-time systems.
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This body of work is part of an ongoing exploration in TouchDesigner, focused on learning, testing, and understanding glitch as a visual language rather than an effect. These experiments are not designed as final artworks, but as research material—spaces to observe how images behave under pressure, feedback, and interruption.
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Working with real-time visual pipelines, I explored how texture, color, and form break down when signals are pushed beyond stability. The experiments rely on layered feedback loops, pixel displacement, and color channel separation, allowing images to fragment, repeat, and collapse into new structures. Rather than correcting errors, the system amplifies them—treating glitches as moments of expression and transformation. Each output is the result of live interaction with parameters, making the process as important as the resulting image.
These studies are exercises in attention.
By removing narrative intention, the focus shifts to rhythm, behavior, and reaction.
The image becomes a living surface—responding to time, input, and internal logic.
What emerges is a visual vocabulary built from instability: repetition without pattern, color without hierarchy, form without permanence.
These experiments serve as groundwork for future installations and audiovisual pieces, where real-time systems act as collaborators rather than tools.
My Role
Visual experimentation · TouchDesigner system building · Real-time image manipulation · Process-based research
Reflection
Before meaning, there is behavior.
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