I Am Sitting In A Video Room is Chicago composer and video artist Patrick Liddell’s homage to Alvin Lucier. In what is essentially a YouTube cover version of Lucier’s I Am Sitting In A Room, Liddell uploaded, ripped and reuploaded the video clip 1000 times over the course of a year, with the accumulation of compression artefacts degenerating both image and sound. They diverge as the sound becomes a rain of knives and image softens out into an impressionist drug haze. Liddell’s compilation video is embedded below, or start watching from the beginning here.

RERO works anonymously, but he’s described on his website as “a conceptual artist with a graffiti background”. He works in various street media such as stencils, stickers and paste-ups, but the form is the same throughout his work – short slogans and statements, set in Verdana and struck through, working on a principle he terms Image Negation. His series ERROR 404 sees an urban ruin scattered with large stencils of slogans and error messages such as THIS IMAGE IS NOT AVAILABLE, uniting these familiar markers of bit rot with material decay.

Gijs Gieskes makes, among other things, Gameboy music, hacked and circuit bent consoles and keyboards, and a whole slew of custom handmade synthesizers. Now for you, the people of Internet, he’s created a YouTube Tracker so that you can arrange YouTube clips into songs. A demo video is shown below.

It uses the step sequencer paradigm common to music tracker software, though instead of setting pitches, the tracker skips to specified times within the YouTube clips. May take a little getting used to, but scroll about half way down for the “show help” link, and you should find it proves a worthy diversion.

We featured Swedish artist Anders Weberg on Electro_Online last year with his work P2P ART; a series of films available only on peer-to-peer filesharing networks. This time, we’d like to share something less ephemeral, but extremely minimal; The URL is the Artwork. The work can be viewed at http://www.theurlistheartwork.com, but having read this, you may have seen it already. In which case check out a similar but more recent effort, This Site is Not Available in Your Country.

An occasional photoblog by French artists Thomas Barbey and Olivier Cazin, Vulgare covers depictions of, and artistic and architectural interventions into landscape. Barbey is, amongst other things, a landscape designer, hence the interest and keen eye. Updates roughly weekly and is, depending on how much sunshine there is in your town, just as good as going outside.

Every Person In New York is a drawing blog kept by artist Jason Polan who, apart from attempting to draw every person in New York, has drawn every piece of art in the Museum of Modern Art and many, many giraffes. He also organises Taco Bell Drawing Club, for people who like to draw at Taco Bell.

Sydney artist Warren Armstrong’s Twitterphonicon does something useful with your tweets; it turns them into bite-size generative music compositions. The work searches for tweets with particular hashtags, turns letters and words into notes and chords, and translates them into MIDI via Musicpad. In its current incarnation the Twitterphonicon accepts tweets written in Musicpad notation, so cunning tweeters can potentially arrange their own tunes.

In the absence of tweets containing #twitphon or other hashtags being searched for the work plays trending topics, so on a recent viewing I was treated to an extended musical about Justin Bieber. I guess this was bound to happen eventually. And even recycled spam tweets can be alchemized into a repeated musical motif.

A further development of this work is the Twitter Hymn Book, made in collaboration with composer Amanda Cole. Using a Max/MSP/Jitter patch, the Twitter Hymn Book converts tweets on spirituality into “hymns” and was a finalist in this year’s Blake Prize. A demo video is shown below, but if you’re in Sydney, you can still catch the work at the National Art School until October 2nd.

Back in Internet times, when people used to keep blogs, it was a common practice to neglect to post anything for weeks or months on end. It was considered poor form on these occasions to write a post apologising for not posting, put people did this anyway. Actually, turns out they are still doing this all the time. So Cory Arcangel has started an occasional blog entitled Sorry I Haven’t Posted, reposting selected examples of these apologetic blog entries. He doesn’t promise to update it very often.

Art of Failure is French artist duo Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont. Their online work, Infinite Stream Loop, is an audio stream that has been travelling the Internet since July 1st, 2010. The stream, initially silent, is passed through multiple locations on the web and ultimately rebroadcast by the original transmitter, creating a closed feedback loop. Using low buffer sizes and no error correction results in a degenerative process, creating a stream of accumulated glitch shaped by the activity of the network. Listen live here.