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Over the past few days I have been thinking about the limitations of digital photography and in particular the formal limitations of lossy data compression. I am interested in the formal limitations of data transfer and the compression artifacts that are produced when an image is saved with heavy data compression.

As most of the focus in photography, music and video is in the opposite direction- towards maintaining high fidelity and minimizing the data loss through data compression. I wonder what kinds of images would be interesting to consider in this light- dirty low resolution images and what are the artifacts that the compression creates, could I focus on this phenomenon and what might these images look like.