Dawnia Darkstone // glitch artist, curator, app maker

LETSGLITCHIT

I rewire cameras and break files on purpose, then build apps so you can break your own.

Magenta, cyan, and yellow digital interference branching across a noisy field

In beta now // free on Apple TestFlight

BETA TESTERS WANTED

Two art apps for iPhone and iPad. Install one, make a mess, tell me what breaks.

The Big Weird Art Machine on iPad: a cartoon landscape surrounding a canvas of wavy lines, with wooden toolbars of tiny controls BWAM! // iPad + iPhone

Early beta

The Big Weird Art Machine

A gigantic, ridiculous art-making contraption. The toolbars are parts of the machine, the sliders are levers, and the canvas is where everything goes wrong beautifully.

Join the BWAM beta →
Bucket Bender on iPhone: a glitched portrait and the Play panel with the Ultimate Randomizer button Bucket Bender // iPhone + iPad

Public beta

Bucket Bender

Image and video bending. Build strange composites by hand, let the Ultimate Randomizer tear through them, or both. There's a web version on itch.io too.

Join the Bucket Bender beta →

The Signal // one email a month

First dibs on beta spots

App news, beta test invites, sneak peeks and new art, straight from the studio. Pick the topics you care about and skip the rest.

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Intercepted Dawnia transmission // reception unstable
— Dawnia Darkstone