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datamosh

verb

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).

Definitions

  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.
    • Still frames from a datamoshed (glitched) MPEG video showing time–motion displacement (the graphic, repeating elements).
    • In datamoshed works, time seems to stall, streak or speed ahead in unpredictable ways.

  2. A video that has been datamoshed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for datamosh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA