I Am Sitting In A Video Room 168

An homage to the great Alvin Lucier, this piece explores the 'photocopy effect', where upon repeated copies the object begin to accumulate the idiosyncrasies of the medium doing the copying. Full words: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice as well as the image of myself, and I am going to upload it to YouTube, rip it from YouTube, and upload it again and again, until the original characteristics of both my voice and my image are destroyed. What you will see and hear, then, are the artifacts inherent in the video codec of both YouTube and the mp4 format I convert it to on my computer. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a digital fact, but more as a way to eliminate all human qualities my speech and image might have. Please visit: http://www.ontologist.us and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room

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[chewymilkybar]

whoever stops by on 168 is my favourite person ever.

[johnzeusleopard14]

I've beginning to memorize what he was saying.

[affei1]

@Zu3s101

Watch the first one and you will understand.

hint*

[ihatekhomeini]

@chewymilkybar Yay, I'm somebody's favourite person!

[DHaven3]

DEMON!

[FokkenPrawn]

@sobman i dont think you understand what he is doing

[sobman]

It doesn't matter what he's saying, it's fucking sadistic.

[thedavenull]

@arleas Hahah, that is exactly the order I watched them in... Freaking weird man.

[arleas]

@chewymilkybar

So far I have watched 1, 56, and now 168, though I started on 1000 just to see what the end result was.

[arleas]

@chewymilkybar So far I played 1, 56, and now 168, though I started on 1000 just to see what the end result was.