Databending
データベンディング / 2000s– / Technique / Digital Image Techniques
Databending edits image or sound files with tools not intended for their format, turning a decoder's misreading into the work; file structure, compression and edit position determine its bands and color shifts.
Sections of an image displaced into horizontal bands / Separated color channels and unexpected saturation / Local compression blocks that leave the source visible / Row-like fractures repeating from the edit point
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Showing the fragility and format-dependence of digital files through the damaged image · Colliding source imagery with decoder error in video, covers and posters
- Type
- Add copy after bending, or displace only part of a duplicate headline along the same axis.
- Composition
- Preserve one identifiable point and use the fracture direction as a compositional axis.
- Material
- Duplicate the file, protect its header and edit only payload data through another format's editor.
- Caution
- A glitch overlay is not databending. The way one format was deliberately misread must determine the result.
- Further study
- Raw data editing / File headers and payload / Compression artifacts as material
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