In It Takes More than the Past to Understand and Build the Archive (2020), a new video essay commissioned for the “Future of Digital Archives and Collections” issue of Stedelijk Studies, Dutch glitch artist Rosa Menkman revisits her seminal work A Vernacular of File Formats (2009-10). The video reveals the historical, social, and chance contexts that inspired her research into image encoding and data syntax systems, and how our relationship to images and data have evolved since.