A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression: Reading Traces of Decay

Jancovic, Marek

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-30
  • 售價: $5,160
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,902
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 268
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031332172
  • ISBN-13: 9783031332173
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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.


作者簡介

Marek Jancovic is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research is centered around the materialities of the moving image, media and the environment, film preservation practices, and format studies.


作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Marek Jancovic 是阿姆斯特丹自由大學媒體研究的助理教授。他的研究集中於動態影像的物質性、媒體與環境、電影保存實踐以及格式研究。