The Future of Memory

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252088759

A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive

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By Jimi Jones, Marek Jancovic
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230 x 150 mm
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450 g
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216

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Jimi Jones is an adjunct lecturer of library and information sciences for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Marek Jancovic is an assistant professor of media studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression: Reading Traces of Decay.

"The first history of film was written in 1894, when cinema had not been born yet. A quarter of the twenty-first century has elapsed, and no global history of digital media is still in sight. It would be a daunting task, worthy of a Jorge Luis Borges story, but Jones and Jancovic have succeeded in writing a key chapter of it. Don't be deterred by its acronyms: you don't have to be a computer geek to enjoy getting lost in the labyrinth of media archives' quixotic struggle against impermanence."--Paolo Cherchi Usai, George Eastman Museum

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