ABSTRACT
Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG) is increasingly becoming the universal currency of exchange in visual culture. The significance of this fact concerns the specific way that intercultural relations are effectively governed by the technologies of their mediation. MPEG manages compression-decompression tools for the transport and display of audiovisual materials. Compression-decompression (codecs) hook into existing technologies including broadcast standards, the transport control protocol/internet protocol suite at the heart of the Internet, and production and display technologies. Color is managed in displays within a limited gamut, typically 40 percent of the capabilities of the eye. Color is coded numerically in one of five major color management systems. The term 'governance' has assumed considerable importance in policy circles, replacing older terms such as regulation. It treats social processes, like broadcast standards policy-making, in the discourse of business management, and belongs to the biopolitical turn in management as well as in contemporary theory.
