Cut-up chaos
We will use a cut-up technique stolen straight from Burroughs and Gysin (makes them proud). Since we are living today, we will use this website to generate that chaos for us.
Glitch Edition
A game of perception, prank, and poetic sabotage.
Spiegel des Universums is a street ritual where a two-word glitch code sends you to a random point in your city. You arrive, interpret the phrase, and leave a trace. Then you document it, seal the portal, and go get noodles.
Find the mirror. Glitch the world.
What this is (and isn't)
This is a game. Or maybe a ritual. Or maybe a trapdoor for the mind. You will know after you play. Spiegel des Universums invites you to bend reality by accident on purpose. It begins with a strange phrase, ends in a photograph, and along the way you might witness a ghost, startle a god, or just leave a weird piece of trash behind for the next sleeper.
You only need
- A Glitch Phrase provided by this website
- One random spot in your city, also provided by this website
- One device or tool (chalk, camera, sticker, curse, bouquet).
- Curiosity. Or confusion. Either will do.
How to play
Pick a spot
You can choose a distance and the system will provide a location and directions to your Glitch Spot. Neat, no?
Arrive and glitch
Find your phrase in the location, or create it with your one allowed glitch device.
Document it
Take a photo, record a sound, or write what you felt. Title it with your phrase.
Seal the portal
Face the spot. Close your eyes. Say: “I saw what I brought. I leave what I became. Mirror sealed.” Walk backwards five steps. Then get noodles or ice cream.
Glitchcraft
Glitchcraft is what happens when you edit consensus reality by playing with it. It is not about belief. It is about interference. It is the punk end of the magical spectrum: play, sabotage, synchronicity. Welcome in.
“Reality is feeling. Every attempt to manipulate reality without first being with it is just combing the mirror.”
Glitch Tag Cards
Print, fill out, and leave at the site. It marks the mirror. It might attract others.
Download Glitch Cards
Mirrorling Servitor
Give your glitch gremlin a name, a shape, and a mission. Keep it. Bury it. Let it whisper.
Download MirrorlingReady to glitch the world?
Members can run rituals and post mandatory evidence to the photo pinboard.
If you ever get caught, pretend you're in art school!