Ben Baker Smith is a digital artist working under the moniker Bit_Synthesis in the realms of imperfection. Back in January, he released his project Infinite Glitch, which constructed an ever-changing audiovisual stream from the media files uploaded to the web, turning it into a kind of scream of virtual consciousness.

Not content with contorting the flow of the virtual world into a bellowing digital shriek, he’s now doing the same glitch hack that he did for sound and video, for the image. GlitchBot dwells on Flickr, automatically creating and distributing glitch art images. Sourcing them from other users who have a Creative Commons license, it gives the date and time it was generated and gives proper attribution to the person whose image it used, which is churned through the algorithm’s filter of imperfection.

Like a foreboding flawed presence, this online glitch automartist has its own Flickr profile and photostream, working at the rather relaxed pace of one image per day. As the algorithm itself isn’t perfect, some images come through as pixelated splodges of colors and linear forms, attractive in their bright chromatic collisions, while others have more recognizably human components, but are just as beguiling.