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The Travelling Image

Watch an image lose data every time it is saved

A demonstration tool that makes lossy compression visible. Each time a JPEG is re-saved, it loses data. Run the sequence and watch the image degrade. A provocation for a lesson on what platforms do to images in circulation.

Source on GitHub
The Travelling Image interface

Research connection

Opens a lesson on algorithmic image culture: how images are compressed, optimised, and altered in circulation before they reach anyone's feed. Read the research →

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