As part of my "Lit in Glitch" series, where I reinterpret classic works of literature into glitch art visualizations, I converted Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" into hexadecimal code and embedded it into a sonified MP4 video file. You can see a longer, high-resolution version here.
Like any work of glitch art, there are bound to be outtakes, files that don't quite make the cut. Below are some 1-frame gems taken from these files.