Analog Video Glitch 101 at Electronics Faire

May 23, 2026

Last month, on April 10, Andrei and I led a workshop on Analog Video Glitch at the Electronics Faire at Temple University in Philadelphia. This was our second year participating in this annual event; last year, I led a workshop on HTML Journaling. This year, the theme was repair, which we kind of subverted because our workshop was more about breaking analog video signals than repairing them... But in some sense, bringing old video devices back to life and misusing them is a form of repair, I think. Anyway, it went well and was a lot of fun. Everyone was very amused and curious about video hacking and the underlying technical details.

The rest of the faire was very enjoyable as well! We attended part of a workshop by Lee Tusman about the new L5 library, and how it relates to topics of repair and permacomputing. As I did last year, I lurked often at the booth of Iffy Books, a local bookstore and infoshop in Philly. We saw some cool art exhibitions and live performances. And I had the opportunity to see some friends from the Philly area (Sam and Richard) — and some friends from afar who I didn't expect to run into!

Many thanks to the organizers of the E-faire for hosting our workshop, and for facilitating the photo documentation I've included in this post.