Maleglitch

y-a-v-a.org and ax710.org 2010-2014-2021

Inspiration

Inspired by the glitch community I wanted to create my own glitch creation class in PHP. After some messing around with the GD function of PHP I managed to create a class that nicely glitched image/jpeg images. As an homage to Jon Satrom I called it Satromizer.php, even though I knew a script with the same name already existed, and that an iOS app with the same name also already existed.

After the class was finished I made several scripts to generate a lot of glitched images in a short time span. Being fond of 20th century modernism, I played around with the idea how to tie glitch art to Modernism. Then I came up with the word play Maleglitch, a combination of the surname of Kazimir Malevich and glitch. ax710 and I really like Malevich, I mean, I really really like Malevich' work. Combining the glitch with paintings of Malevich brought me something new: Suprematism in a digital universe. We called it hypersuprematism.

tl;dr

• Class for making glitches in jpeg files
• Inspired by works of Jon Satrom, artist
• implementation in www folder is called Maleglitch
• www.maleglitch.net is a live project from ax710 and y-a-v-a
• the domain is owned and administrated by ax710

Development

A Docker based development environment (PHP 8.3 + Apache + GD with JPEG support) is included. The project directory is bind-mounted into the container, so edits are live:

docker compose up --build -d
open http://localhost:8710/

Glitched images are rendered by www/img.php and archived (one per day) in www/imgs/.

To check the site against another PHP release before the host upgrades, set PHP_VERSION (any php:<version>-apache image tag, e.g. 8.5 or 8.6-rc):

PHP_VERSION=8.5 docker compose up --build -d