"I Am Sitting in a Room": Video Feedback Project

Process-oriented writing has come up a few times in class -- for example, using Google Translate to move a text back and forth between languages several times in order to observe the changes that are produced. This video project, which takes the idea of process-oriented art to an extreme, was made by uploading, saving and re-uploading the same video to YouTube 1000 times. During this process, the artist -- his physical appearance, the visual details of his video-making style, the content of his message -- gradually disappeared, to be replaced by the distortions imposed by the process itself. (If you watch the video, you'll find links to the other stages of the project on YouTube, so you can see it at different stages.) In other words, this project is not "about" the author and his message; instead, it sets out to explore the medium of online video, allowing the viewer to experience this medium rather than ignore it (which we usually do when we watch videos, paying attention only to what they show and not to what they are).