Starting as a glitch media experiment with videogame play recordings, I used my MiniDV camcorder as way to produce artifacts for digital images. In the same period of time, I was also recording the motion of VHS tapes moving backwards and forwards which have their own respective degraded image quality depending on the helictical scanning of tape rewinding or fast forwarding. But even MiniDV as a digital tape format produces distortion due to the pan left-to-right passing over being seen as a diagonal slice with large squares of pixels being missed creating a jig sawing of the video image. In the case of the original Tekken play through seen above the actual AV signal is recorded to DV format normally. Afterwards the cameras deck playback controls can be spooled through and captured to a computer.

The result is mixed of blocks of pixels as frames are blended together in a discontinuous progression due to the fact that winding drops frames visibly. It is immediate noticeable that obsolete image quality of polygon animation seemed to fit in well aesthetically with the glitching. More importantly as I watched the video it became clear that despite actual information loss the outcome was still knowable due to elements such as the timer, health bars remaining relatively static and general motion and hits can be discerned. I then added back in the audio track of the Tekken play through and then normalized the audio and video media to return them to a standard rate rather than the x4 multiplying speed of the tape winding through.