Glitched Art
I've decided that the glitched art approach is my favourite — I think that a starting point is to write code for Processing to glitch an input image.
This code shifts random pixels to the right or left by ±20pixels. It then extracts the RGB layers from the image and shift those up or down by an offset of ±20 between 0 and 255. It will re-randomise everything on each mouse click.
Here is the original image vs output of some of the images I tried this with:
As I said in the bottom of my code, I also would like to try physically glitching images, perhaps by hacking or altering the way a printer works. To actually hack it would likely be troublesome as they'll all use closed systems and to get in to that would take a lot of work, if it's even possible. I might try messing with he way it prints images, but programming an Arduino to tug the paper as it's printing, and attaching vibration motors to the actual print heads. Next week, I'll bring a printer in and see what I can do.