# video (digital)

a product formed by creating visual patterns of movement as persistent data over time

- Computed level: L10 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: media  ·  Arena: common

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [visual](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-visual.perceptual), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [data](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-data.information), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [pattern](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pattern.regularity), [products](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-products.goods), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [create](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-create.production)

**Through:** visual patterns of movement are made as data that persist through time

**Novel properties:**
- persistent moving images
- structured visual sequence
- temporal data artifact

## Examples
- The 1974 'Symbiotic Seeing' video tape by artist Nam June Paik records analog electronic distortions across 28 minutes of broadcast signal interference. *(art)*
- The Hubble Space Telescope captured a 10-second exposure video of Jupiter's auroras in 2016, encoding charged particle motion as pixel shifts over time. *(astronomy)*
- TikTok's algorithm in 2023 served 60 billion daily video loops, each a compressed data stream of human motion framed at 30 frames per second. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [film](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-film.entertainment) (L12)
- [movies](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-movies.entertainment) (L13)

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*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*