18 Facts About Lev Manovich

Lev Manovich is an artist, an author and a theorist of digital culture.

Lev Manovich is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Lev Manovich is the founder and director of the Cultural Analytics Lab, which pioneered use of data science and data visualization for the analysis of massive collections of images and video.

Lev Manovich is the author and editor of 15 books including The Language of New Media that has been translated into fourteen languages.

Lev Manovich was born in Moscow, USSR, where he studied painting, architecture, computer science, and semiotics.

Lev Manovich's interests shifted from still image and physical 3D space to virtual space, moving images, and the use of computers in media.

Lev Manovich has worked with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since 1984.

Lev Manovich is well known for his insightful articles, including "New Media from Borges to HTML" and "Database as Symbolic Form".

Lev Manovich's works have been included in many key international exhibitions of new media art.

Lev Manovich has been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, and University of Art and Design Helsinki.

In 2007 Lev Manovich founded the research lab Software Studies Initiative, which was renamed as the Cultural Analytics Lab in 2016.

On November 8,2012, it was announced that Lev Manovich would be joining the faculty of the City University of New York's Graduate Center in January 2013, with the goal of enhancing the graduate schools' digital initiatives.

The extracts we have chosen highlight significant 'new' aspects of the new media Lev Manovich is concerned with.

Lev Manovich compares this with traditional techniques of manipulating and editing film stock.

In "New Media from Borges to HTML", Lev Manovich describes the eight definitions of "new media":.

Lev Manovich develops the concept of metamedia that was originally proposed by Alan Kay.

Lev Manovich develops the concept of 'exploratory media analysis' - the use of special visualization techniques to explore large visual collections without formulating a particular hypothesis beforehand.

However, despite this limitation, Lev Manovich remains optimistic about both the theoretical and practical potential of computational paradigms.