Lev Manovich

Lev Manovich
Professor Lev Manovich
at Strelka Institute in 2015
Born1960 [1]
Moscow, Russia
Notable workThe Language of New Media
Websitewww.manovich.net

Lev Manovich (/ˈmænəvɪtʃ/ MAN-ə-vitch[2]) is an artist, an author and a theorist of digital culture. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Manovich played a key role in creating four new research fields: new media studies (1991-), software studies (2001-), cultural analytics (2007-) and AI aesthetics (2018-). Manovich's current research focuses on generative media, AI culture, digital art, and media theory.[3]

Manovich is the founder and director of the Cultural Analytics Lab (called Software Studies Initiative 2007-2016),[4] which pioneered use of data science and data visualization for the analysis of massive collections of images and video (cultural analytics).[5] The lab was commissioned to create visualizations of cultural datasets for Google,[6] New York Public Library,[7] and New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).[8]

He is the author and editor of 15 books including The Language of New Media that has been translated into fourteen languages.[9] Manovich's latest academic book Cultural Analytics was published in 2020 by the MIT Press.[10]

  1. ^ "Lev Manovich". Monoskop. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  2. ^ "// MECS // profiles // Lev Manovich //". YouTube. 11 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. ^ Lev Manovich Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine faculty profile at European Graduate School, Saas-Fee.
  4. ^ "Cultural Analytics Lab". Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  5. ^ The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (November 28, 2017). "New Study from Graduate Center, CUNY, Cultural Analytics Lab Is First to Analyze Global Growth of Image Sharing Around the World". PR Newswire. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  6. ^ Phototrails. "Google Zeitgeist 2014 conference". Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  7. ^ Gopnik, Blake (December 22, 2015). "At the NYPL, 'On Broadway' Portrays the World's Greatest Street". Artnet News. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  8. ^ Hochman, Nadav; Manovich, Lev (2014). "A View from Above: Exploratory Visualizations of the Thomas Walther Collection" (PDF). Object:Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909–1949. An Online Project of The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
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  10. ^ Manovich, Lev (2020). Cultural Analytics. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262037105.