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  • A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression: Reading Traces of Decay

    A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression by Jancovic, Marek;

    Reading Traces of Decay

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2023
    • Publisher Springer International Publishing
    • Date of Publication 30 July 2024
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783031332173
    • Binding Paperback
    • See also 9783031332142
    • No. of pages268 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XVI, 268 p. 44 illus., 25 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white
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    This book explores the historical interrelationships between mathematics, medicine and media, and offers a unique perspective on how video compression has shaped our relationship with moving images and the world. It situates compression in a network of technological, visual and epistemic practices spanning from late 18th-century computational methods to the standardization of electrical infrastructure and the development of neurology throughout the 1900s.

    Bringing into conversation media archaeology, science and technology studies, disability studies and queer theory, each chapter offers an in-depth look at a different trace of compression, such as interlacing, macroblocking or flicker. This is a story of forgotten technologies, unusual media practices, strange images on the margins of visual culture and inventive ways of looking at the world. Readers will find illuminating discussions of the formation of complex scientific and medical systems, and of the violent and pleasurable interactions between our bodies and media infrastructure.


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    Table of Contents:

    Chapter 1: Media Epigraphy.- Chapter 2: Et cetera in infinitum: Harmonic Analysis and the Material History of Digital Video Compression.- Chapter 3: Interlacing: The First Video Compression Method.- Chapter 4: Viewer Discretion is Advised: Flicker in Media, Medicine and Art.- Chapter 5: Close Exposure: Of Seizures, Irritating Children and Strange Visual Pleasures./

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