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This quote is taken from Douglas Davis' essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction," which argues (in part) that unlike analogue signals, which are like waves crashing upon a beach and losing clarity with every ebb of the tide, digital bits "can be endlessly reproduced, without degradation, always the same, always perfect."

This video is an animation of the process of saving an image file in continuously lower file formats over hundreds of times.

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  • universe 4 years ago
    Awesome!

    You can find the essay here:
    content.reticular.info/forum/pmwiki.php?n=Texts.WorkOfArtDigitalReproduction
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  • suncana 4 years ago
    ...maybe theoretically they do, but in reality im sure theres always particles/bits shifted from copy to copy (?).. your clip makes me think of some sort of process showing how the original changes with each copy? (like saving an image as a jpeg over and over again...)
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  • Flourish Klink 3 years ago
    This tickled me in my theory bone.
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  • Found Object Films 1 year ago
    When music sharing on the net started up back in the napster days, all the old media all started repeating this argument. Whenever I tried getting mp3s, they sounded like this picture looks. mp3>cd>mp3 etc...
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