The NEURO TALK "Save image as" was the discussion Florian Schneider moderated between Enno Patalas, Ralph Giles, Brian Holmes and Sebastian Lüttgert and took place on Saturday 28th of February 2004 early evening. The debate ranked around the crisis of representation, the importance of free video and audio codecs and the role of images.

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