Introducing
Glitch Deck NFTs is an animated glitch-art project featuring 8,100 unique, generative, animated, dynamic playing cards all themed around gaming / gambling, pop-culture, and tech.
When a friend commented on the alluring nature of glitch art to me recently, I replied that I suspect that the primary driver of such possibilities lies in the glitching nature itself -- but not merely the literal "glitch," which at its most fundamental is simply a representation of a momentary malfunction (which itself is highly interesting to me), but in the psychology lurking below. The artful application of this effect can induce experiences via the barely-perceptible (or even via the downright subliminal), ushering viewers toward rare doorways into the psyche (perhaps the artist's, perhaps their own) -- thresholds into the subconscious realm, through which may lie an assortment of wonder, fantasy, terror, whimsy, etc. Throughout these 8,100 experiences, Glitch Deck imagines a fantasy world dominated by blocks, cubes, and linear imagery, rich with movement and replete with weird easter eggs, unexpected juxtapositions, interesting deviations, and many surprises. The set incorporates heavily modified AI imagery as well as hand-drawn, custom-designed, custom-coded traits. The combined final files for this project totaled 80GB(!), which ranks Glitch Deck among the largest, most complex generative NFT sets ever. It's my third large-ish set (following up my minted-out LoopieLoo generative set from 2022 and my genesis NFTuxedoCats from early 2021) and my first foray into animation and glitch art.
