Datamoshing is one of the freshest things digital arts has seen in a while, although it's already a year old phenomenon.
It embraces the digital glitching that comes from compressing videos - something we've all seen a lot especially in the past days of low-quality YouTube videos - and makes it a visual effect that reminds of flowy oil painting, but still stands on it's own.
A few video makers have also used this on music videos, and the first one was Ray Tintori (directed MGMT's Time to Pretend and Kids too) + Bob Weisz for Chairlift's video "Evident Utensil" and soon Kanye West was forced to drop the video for "Welcome to Heartbreak" by Nabil Elderkin.
Other music videos out there are DD/MM/YYYY's "Digital Haircut" and previously blogged Jonathan Boulet's video for "A Community Service Announcement" that's the first one I've seen that really incorporates the effect super-smoothly on the rest of the material.
Video artist Takeshi Murata is one of the first ones that has been using the technique a lot on his work.
"Evident Utensil" director Bob Weisz has also made a "How to" video for datamoshing, where he rips every inch of mysticism to pieces from what was once a wonder to us all.
It'll be interesting to see if we'll see this technique used more are more creatively in video arts in the future.
CHAIRLIFT - EVIDENT UTENSIL
KANYE WEST - WELCOME TO HEARTBREAK
JONATHAN BOULET - A COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
WHAT IS DATAMOSHING AND HOW TO DO IT