Lev Manovich

A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.

The Language of New Media

"This book presents concepts and methods for computing cultural data, exploring digitized media and artifacts, and understanding astonishing scale of cultural growth in the digital era"--

Cultural Analytics

Offers the first look at the aesthetics of contemporary design from the theoretical perspectives of media theory and 'software studies'.

Software Takes Command

AI Aesthetics

Instagram and Contemporary Image

En este libro, Lev Manovich ofrece la primera teoría rigurosa y sistemática de los nuevos medios, enmarcándolos en la historia de las culturas mediáticas y visuales de los últimos siglos. Aborda la dependencia de estos nuevos medios respecto de las convenciones de los viejos, como el encuadre rectangular y la cámara móvil, y muestra de qué manera sus obras crean la ilusión de realidad, se dirigen al espectador y representan el espacio. Y muestra también cómo las categorías y formas específicas de los nuevos medios, como la interfaz y la base de datos, trabajan con las convenciones más familiares para hacer posible un nuevo tipo de estética. Manovich emplea conceptos ya existentes procedentes de la teoría del cine, la historia literaria y la informática, y desarrolla también nuevos conceptos teóricos, como el de interfaz cultural, montaje espacial y cinegratografía. La teoría y la historia del cine desempeñan un papel especialmente importante en el libro. Entre otros temas, Manovich aborda los paralelismos entre la historia del cine y la de los nuevos medios, el cine digital, la pantalla y el montaje, y los vínculos históricos entre el cine de vanguardia y los nuevos medios.

la imagen en la nueva era digital

El lenguaje de los nuevos medios de comunicación

Le langage des nouveaux médias

Robert Atkins

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Rudolf Frieling

Boris Groys

Professor Fur Kunstwissenschaft Philosophie Und Medientheorie Boris Groys

The first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

1950 to Now

The Art of Participation

Alla Efimova

Lev Manovitch

University of Chicago Press

Fascinated by the myth of the Russian avant-garde and scornful of official art, the West has been selective in its engagement with Russian visual culture. Yet how do contemporary Russian scholars and critics themselves approach the history of visual culture in the former Soviet Union? Taking its title from a Russian word that can refer to the 'texture" of life, painting, or writing, this anthology assembles thirteen key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers. The essays erase boundaries between high and low, official and dissident, avant-garde and socialist realism, art and everyday life. Everything visual is deemed worthy of analysis, whether painting or propaganda banners, architecture or candy wrappers, mass celebrations or urban refuse. Most of the essays appear here in English for the first time. The editors have selected works of the past twenty years by philosophers, literary critics, film scholars, and art historians. Also included are influential earlier essays by Mikhail Bakhtin, V. N. Voloshinov, and Sergei Eisenstein. Compiled for general readers and specialists alike, Tekstura is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Russian and Soviet cultural history or in new theoretical approaches to the visual.

Russian Essays on Visual Culture

Tekstura

Lee Lee Nam

The work of South Korean artist Lee Lee Nam is at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, east and west, authenticity and duplication. He often refers to art history and thereby created a dialogue between media technology and its cultural basis. Lee Lee Nam lifts the barrier between cultures and time periods, and questions the way we deal with art.00Exhibition: Update biënnale, Zebrastraat Gent, Belgium (05.11. - 04.12.2016).

Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder. Essays by Lev Manovich, Brian Massumi, Rafael Lazano-Hemmer, Scott Lash, Sher Doruff and Joel Ryan.

Making Art of Databases

Does new media represent a 'new avant-garde' of information? How can an information society be represented iconically if the activities that define it are all so dynamic? What are the cultural consequences of extending the internet into the physical world? In proposing software as modernity's new societal force, this book seeks to reclassify software as today's revitalized combustion engine, underpinning the logic of contemporary culture. Manovich investigates the ways in which the shift from an industrial to information society has resulted in new aesthetic sensibilities and representations. He describes software as the internal combustion engine of the information society, arguing that it is in software that the new cultural logic manifests itself most clearly. This is a cutting-edge and systematic examination of contemporary culture by the creator of the field of software studies.

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