Manovich, Lev

Autor: Manovich, Lev
Rok: 1960-
Oblast působnosti: teoretici umění, vysokoškolští učitelé

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Americký univerzitní pedagog, zabývá se dějinami a teorií umění a pronikáním nových technologií do současné mediální tvorby.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Lev Manovich (born 1960) is an author of books on new media theory, professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, U.S. and visiting professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Manovich's research and teaching focuses on digital humanities, social computing, new media art and theory, and software studiesHis best known book is The Language of New Media, which has been widely reviewed and translated into ten languages. According to reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far-reaching theorization of the subject" and "it places new media within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan". Manovich's latest book Software Takes Command was published in 2013 by Bloomsbury and the earlier draft was released under a Creative Commons license. His research lab "Software Studies Initiative" (2007-) pioneered computational analysis of massive collections of images and video ("cultural analytics"). His lab was commissioned to create visualizations of cultural datasets for Google, New York Public Library, MoMA, and other institutions and received support from Twitter, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for Humanities, and Andrew Mellon Foundation, among others. Manovich is one of the editors of Software Studies book series (The MIT Press) and Quantitative Methods in Humanities and Social Science (Springer).