As a kid, when my ZX spectrum used to frustratingly crash mid game I used to find some consolation in the beautiful colourful images it would generate if you so much as looked at the joystick interface.

Ive been getting more and more obsessed with the use of digital artifacts as an artform in their own right

Wired Magazine have a good article on it.

Wikipedia have a few bits

Youtube has lots of cool stuff including the original data moshing trilogy

Heres an out-take from one of my 3D scenes.

Ive just ordered this cool looking book from Mark Batty publishers, cant wait to read it