Datamosh
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A video that has been datamoshed.
"Murata creates his glitch video from software packages such as AfterEffects and the DivX codec (a program used to read or write media files), though the pixel bleed effect has become so popular that developers and artists have recently introduced datamosh plug-ins for existing software."
- 1 To intentionally corrupt a digital video, creating a surreal effect.
"To understand datamoshing, you need to know about I- and P-frames. Digital video files are made up of sequences of different types of frames. I-frames (also referred to as keyframes) are full representations of a single frame of the video."
Example
More examples"To understand datamoshing, you need to know about I- and P-frames. Digital video files are made up of sequences of different types of frames. I-frames (also referred to as keyframes) are full representations of a single frame of the video."
Etymology
From data + mosh, coined in 2007 by the art collective Paper Rad in their Video Art project umbrella zombie datamosh mistake (copied from orignal title circa 2008).
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