ARTICLES | TRANSLATIONS | NTERVIEWS / DIALOGS
Main Research areas:
- software studies;
- the aesthetics of information society;
- the impact of computerization on architecture, design, visual culture, media;
- analysis of new software-based cultural forms (examples: interface, visualisation, simulation);
- the development of new concepts for the analysis of digital culture (examples: metamedia, cultural interface, database narrative, spatial montage);
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SELECTED ARTICLES
1 - from Engineering Vision (PhD Thesis, 1993)
2 - incorporated in The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001)
3 - stand alone
4 - will be incorporated into Info-Aesthetics or Expanded Image books (in progress)
5 - will be incorporated into Software Studies
The practice of Everyday (Media) Life, 2008 5
Designing Shanghai, or Why East of the New West, 2007 4
What comes after Remix? 2007 5
Interaction as an Aesthetic Event, 2007 4
Understanding Hybrid Media 2007 5
Alan Kay's Universal Media Machine, 2006 5
After Effects, or Velvet Revolution - part 1, 2006 5
After Effects, or Velvet Revolution- part 2, 2006 5
import/export, 2006 5
Social Data Browser, 2006 4
Friendly Alien: Object and Interface, 2006 4
Image Future, 2006 5
Scale Effects, 2005 4
Remixability and Modularity, 2005 4
The Shape of Information, 2005 4
Abstraction and Complexity, 2004 4
Moving Image Culture after Computerisation: an outline, 2003
New Media and Remix Culture (introduction to Korean edition of LNM), 2003 3
Don't Call it Art, 2003
Data Visualisation as New Abstraction and Anti-Sublime, 2002 4
Metadata, Mon Amour,2002, 4
Generation Flash, 2002 4
Welcome to the Multiplex: Documenta 11 review, 2002 3
10 Key Texts on New Media Art, 1970-2000
Models of Authorship in New Media, 2002 3
The Poetics of Augmented Space, 2002 (updated 2005) 4
New Media from Borges to HTML, 2001 | IMAGES 3
Post-media Aesthetics, 2001 4
Reality Media, 2001 4
My Favorite Fashion Sites (for Art Forum), 2001 3
Information and Form, 2000 4
Macro-media and Micro-media, 2000 3
Avant-garde as Software, 1999 4
New Media: a User's Guide, 1999 2
Review of Stars Wars: Episode 1, 1999 4
Cinema by Numbers, 1999 2
The Camera and the World: the Art of Tamás Waliczky, 1998 2
Database as a Symbolic Form, 1998 2
Navigable Space, 1998 2
Automation of Sight from Photography to Computer Vision, 1997 1
Cinema as a Cultural Interface, 1997 2
Jump Over Proust, 1997 4
Behind the Screen / Russian New Media, 1997 3
On Totalitarian Interactivity, 1996 2
The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds: Report from Los Angeles, 1996 2
Cinema and Telecommunication / Distance and Aura, 1996 2
Reading New Media Art, 1995 3
Archeology of a Computer Screen, 1995 2
To Lie and to Act: Potemkin's Villages, Cinema and Telepresence, 1995 2
What is Digital Cinema?, 1995 2
Cinema and Digital Media, 1995 2
The Labor of Perception, 1995 1
From the Externalization of the Psyche to the Implantation of Technology, 1995 1
The Engineering of Vision and the Aesthetics of Computer Art, 1994 1
Paradoxes of Digital Photography, 1994 2
The Mapping of Space: Perspective, Radar and 3-D Computer Graphics, 1993 1
Assembling Reality: Myths of Computer Graphics, 1992 2
SELECTED TRANSLATIONS
The following are some of the translations available online. For a complete list of translations, see CV.
Generation Flash | Norvegian | Italian
Post-media Aesthetics | Latvian
An interview about The Language of New Media (Daniel Palmer - Lev Manovich) | Latvian
The Poetics of Augmented Space | Spanish
Database as a Symbolic Form | Spanish
Cinema as a Cultural Interface | Hungarian
The Language of New Media | Spanish
Detour to the East | German
Jump over Proust | German
Behind the Screen / Russian New Media | German
On Totalitarian Interactivity | German
The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds: Report from Los Angeles | German
What is Digital Cinema? | German | Spanish | Italian
Respect for Distance. Film/Telecommunication - Benjamin/Virilio | German
The Labor of Perception | German
SELECTED INTERVIEWS / DIALOGS
Interview for Spiegel (8/2006) - 31.07.2006
Stefania Garassini and Manovich, Lev. Interview for Domus (Milan, 2003).
Marketou, Jenny and Lev Manovich, a dialog about visualization and mapping, Breeder 5 (Authens, 2002)
Margarete Vöhringer / Birk Weiberg | Lev Manovich,. Interactive Interview for keyframe.org, 2002.
Gansing, Kristoffer and Lev Manovich, interview for Skiften (Sweden) , 2002.
Interview for Neural, 2002
Interview for Plug-in Cinema, 2002
Interview for Histories of Internet Art, 2002
Interview for TAZ (in German), 2001
MIT | Lev Manovich, 2001
Daniel Palmer | Lev Manovich , an interview for Real Time, Australia, 2001
Marco Deseriis | Lev Manovich , an interview for rai.it, Italy, 2001
Geoffrey Batchen | Lev Manovich, a dialog forn Afterimage, 2001
Interview by SWITCH editors, SWITCH 5, no. 3 , special issue on Database (winter 2000).
Digital Constructivism: What is European Software? (an exchange with Geert Lovink), 1998