Digital Decay

An image is saved in ever-lower file formats hundreds of times over, challenging the idea that digital copies never degrade.

A hypnotic piece of glitch art that turns file compression into a meditation on decay.

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

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