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http://www.manovich.net
Lev Manovich will present his current book
in progress INFO-AESTHETICS. The book scans contemporary culture to
detect emerging aesthetics and computer-based cultural forms specific
to information society. He will also show and discuss a number of his
new media art projects: Little Movies, the first digital film project
designed for the Web (1994); Freud-Lissitzky Navigator, a conceptual
software for navigating twentieth century history; Anna and Andy, a
streaming version of Tolstoy's novel; and Soft Cinema comissioned by
ZKM for its upcoming Cinema Future exhibition.
Lev Manovich is an Associate Professor at the Visual Arts Department,
University of California, San Diego where he teaches new media art and
theory. He is the author of The Language of New Media (The MIT Press,
2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University
Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in more
than twenty countries. Manovich was born in Moscow and has been working
with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer
since since 1984. He is in demand as a lecturer around the world, having
delivered over 70 lectures in the US, Europe and Asia since 1999.
For more information, visit: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/
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