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SHORT BIO

Lev Manovich's books include Software Takes Command (released under CC license, 2008), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." He has written 90+ articles which have been reprinted over 300 times in 30+ countries. Manovich is a Professor in Visual Arts Department, University of California -San Diego, a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and a Visiting Research Professor at Godsmith College (University of London), De Montfort University (UK) and College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (Sydney). He is much in demand to lecture around the world, having delivered 300+ lectures, seminars and workshops during the last 10 years.

LONG BIO

Lev Manovich (www.manovich.net) is a Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California - San Diego (UCSD) where he teaches practical courses in digital art as well as history ad theory of digital culture. He also directs directs of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2), and he is also Visiting Research Professor at Godsmith College (London), De Montfort University (UK) and College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (Sydney).

Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (released under CC license, 2008), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005), Soft Cinema DVD (The MIT Press, 2005), The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), Metamediji (Belgrade, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as 94 articles which have been published in 30+ countries and reprinted over 300 times . The Language of New Media is translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, Slovenian, Latvian, Greek, and Korean and it is used a textbook in hundreds of programs around the world. According to the reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far-reaching theorization of the subject" (CAA reviews); "it places [new media] within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan" (Telepolis).

In 2007 Manovich has founded Software Studies Initiative (UCSD and Calit2) in order to facilitate the work in the new emerging field of software studies. The lab is also developing a new paradigm of Cultural Analytics: data miniing and and visualization of patterns in large cultural data sets.

Manovich is in demand to lecture on digital culture around the world. Since 1999 he presented 300+ lectures, seminars and master classes in North and South America, Asia, and Europe.

Manovich was born in Moscow where he studied fine arts, architecture and computer programming. He moved to New York in 1981, receiving an M.A. in Experimental Psychology (NYU, 1988) and a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from University of Rochester [1993]. His Ph.D. dissertation The Engineering of Vision from Constructivism to Computers traces the origins of computer media, relating it to the avant-garde art of the 1920s.

Manovich has been working with computer media as am artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since since 1984. His art projects have been presented by, among others, Chelsea Art Museum (New York), ZKM, The Walker Art Center, KIASMA, Centre Pompidou, and the ICA (London).

Manovich's awards include National Endowment for the Arts (NEH) Humanities High-Performance Computing (HHPC) grant 2008), Guggenheim Fellowship 2002-2003, 2002 Digital Cultures Fellowship from UC Santa Barbara, 2002 Fellowship from The Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, and 1995 Mellon Fellowship from Cal Arts. Manovich also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, SCI-ARC, UCLA, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design (Helsinki), Hong Kong Art Center, University of Siegen (Germany), Gothenberg School of Art.

Currently Manovich is working on developing Cultural Analytics projects @ Software Studies Initiative. He is also completing two other books: Info-aesthetics and Surface is The New Depth.

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@ HIPerSpace wall at Calit2 / La Jolla, CA / January 2009 / fotos by Calit2 stuff

@ conference / Oslo / September 2007

@ Hotel Hotel Puerto America / Madrid / Zaha Hadid's floor / June 2008 / fotos by Lev