Glitch art using Audacity

[Ortmeyer]

If any you are familiar with "glitch art" (also known as "Data moshing") then its a form of art where you take a video and run it through a program that wouldnt support that file (fx: opening a video file in a text editor) and then messing around with the data stored in the text. However this can also be done in audacity from what ive heard. But i have no idea how to import video data into audacity, i have been doing glitch art in other editors but it is a huge pain to manually edit thousands of digits. So my question is: "Does anybody know how to import video data into audacity, and then how to export it as a file that can be opened in a video viewer?" If so, then please let me know, thanks!

Btw heres an example of glitch art (a music video by Kanye west that uses data moshing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMH0e8kIZtE

[Trebor]

You can open ("import") any file in Audacity as “raw data”, but if it’s a video or image the result is either like white noise hiss or repetitive glitching.

However IMO that video is too artful to be created by the almost-random "moshing" process you describe.

It reminded me of compression-artifact accumulation, e.g. ...

sitting in a room #1 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEIzS_27Vt0
sitting in a room #474 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJShMQfszQI

With a video editor you wouldn't have to recompress 474 times, (Audacity only edits Audio, not video).