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Collin Armstrong
@collinarmstrong.bsky.social
Writer living in Los Angeles. Nerd for analog tech, vintage games, and anything sci-fi and horror-related. My first novel, POLYBIUS, is available now from Gallery Books.
#booksky #horrorsky

It's October! If it's '80s horror vibes you're after, look no further...
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
#glitchart #videoart #videobending

DV cam's attract screen filtered through a bent Extron video amp, then various Andrei Jay apps, into a feedback loop.

atmospheric loop #15 by BloodPixelHero -- freesound.org/s/565554/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
August 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#glitchart #videoart #videobending #circuitbending #analog #videosynthesis

A bunch of PXL + VSERPI + feedback + video bending experiments rolled into one clip. Excuse the aspect ratio crimes.

Bach's Prelude in C [Chiptune] by Beetlemuse -- freesound.org/s/668630/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
August 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#glitchart #videoart #videobending

DARK GRIME 5

Footage shot at a public garden, used to create feedback loops on a Roland Edirol V4, bent with a Director's Cut analog / digital converter.

MemoryMoon_shining-organ_grab-filtha.wav by suonho -- freesound.org/s/28091/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#videoart #glitchart #videobending #circuitbending

TEST FLIGHT

Stock footage run thru a Roland Edirol V4 and circuit bent with an unbranded video enhancer.

Audio from Freesound.org...

arp-blips.wav by earthpages -- freesound.org/s/649090/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
July 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#glitchart #videoart

What started as footage I captured of Space Harrier on the #turbografx16 is now... this, whatever it is, thanks to a circuit-bent Vidicraft Vidmate, Andrei Jay's Temporal Mesh program, and Signal Culture's WeaverMA app.
July 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
#booksky

Prior to POLYBIUS being released I figured I should get back on social media, but didn’t know what to say or do.

I settled on creating & posting a series of teasers for the book.
June 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#glitchart #videoart

INTERIOR SCAN COMPLETE

What started out as footage of clouds, shot from the window of a plane, becomes a high-tech scan of an alien super-structure after passing thru a series of apps - EFEKT, Glitche, V-Mass, & Interstream.

Soundscape created via elements from Freesound.org
June 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
#glitchart #videoart

I created a feedback loop on a Sansui AV-77 video mixer, used the built-in transitions to make a series of shapes, then processed everything through Signal Culture's SSSScan and Interstream apps.
May 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#videoart #glitchart

IT SEES

Footage of skyscrapers in downtown Chicago + Vidicraft SPFX Generator + Roland Edirol V4

trumpet chorus by PhonosUPF -- freesound.org/s/503153/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
shakuhachi grave 3 by PhonosUPF -- freesound.org/s/499729/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
May 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
#videoart #glitchart

TORUS

Bent stock footage manipulated into... this, via Signal Culture's V-Mass app.

I created the soundscape using Spitfire Audio's awesome BBC Radiophonic Workshop plug-in.
May 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#booksky

Getting deep - and weird - on POLYBIUS a whole host of other topics while chatting with a bunch of awesome book lovers at Bart's Books in Ojai, CA this past weekend!
May 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#videoart #glitchart

SPAGHETTIFICATION

Stock footage bent with a vintage Emerson EVC1595 signal converter then processed with Signal Culture's Maelstrom and ReTracer apps.
May 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
#videoart #glitchart

PLASMABREAK

Stock footage bent with a vintage Archer 15-1272, processed first by a Roland Edirol V4 then SignalCulture’s ReTrace program.

More at www.collinarmstrong.com
May 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM