Glitch bot tus watching news into an extreme sport - CNET

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Watching and processing a constant stream of news can feel like a 24-hour job when you consider how much information is relayed on TV and the Web these days.

In his latest Twitter-bot project Glitch News Network, UK-based artist Eric Drass, aka Shardcore, takes advantage of various online news sites to make quick, nonsensical videos. The social-media bot "scrapes various online news sources for images of the latest stories" and the visuals are "glitched and mashed into a video which lasts less than two seconds."

"We are visual creatures, hard-wired to recognize and react at astonishing speed, yet we're 'unaware' of 99 percent of the visual stimuli we encounter," Shardcore writes in his blog explaining Glitch News Network.

"If we objectively examine our behavior, the vast majority of our actions are being carried out 'subconsciously,' and hence they tend to remain 'invisible' to us, and therefore seemingly of no conce," Shardcore continued. "Subliminal messages play on this disconnect between subconscious and conscious recognition. That's how advertising works."

Glitch News Network report: 2016-03-02 18:00:16 pic.twitter.com/1VnUKNQFjG

— Glitch News Network (@glitchnn) March 2, 2016