Lev Manovich. Data Visualization. 2009. 1/3

by lowes1 on September 29, 2010


www.egs.edu Lev Manovich speaking at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland on data visualization, information design, visual analeptics, software studies, the internet, creativity, and media theory. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Lev Manovich 2009 Lev Manovich is one of the most significant voices in internet criticism today. Working as an artist and net theorist as well as a professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California at San Diego, he also directs the Software Studies Initiative at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. As well, he is a visiting research professor at both Goldsmiths College, London, and De Montfort College as well as the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Manovichs most well known book, The Language of New Media, has influenced scores of students, artists and activists since it was published in 2001. In The Language of New Media, Manovich offer a detailed and rigorous theory of new media. Placing new media within the histories of visual and media culture, Manovich examines its reliance on the conventional apparatuses of old media. Manovich uses film theory, art history, literary theory and computer science to develop new theoretical constructs such as cultural interface and spatial montage. Lev Manovichs latest book

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