The New Aesthetic

GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona.

GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily.

GlitchBot is not an interactive program. GlitchBot works alone on a fixed schedule, creating a single new glitched image every day and presenting it to the world via the GlitchBot flickr page (see above links) and slideshow (see below).

GlitchBot creates its images by glitching source images pulled from other flickr users’ photostreams. Only source images with an appropriate Creative Commons license are used. In order to ensure compliance with license terms, the original creator is credited and linked to in the descriptions of the resulting glitched images. The glitched images are then released under the same license as their source - ensuring compliance with share-alike licenses, and contributing to the pool of legally re-usable media that allows GlitchBot to avoid coming into conflict with copyright law.