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manovich@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Lev Manovich is recognized as one of the leading theorists of new media art and digital culture in the world. Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in thirty countries.
The Language of New Media has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Korean, and Chinese. 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).
Manovich frequently lectures on new media around the world, having delivered around two hundred in the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia since 1999.
Manovich was born in Moscow where he studied fine arts, architecture and computer science. He moved to New York in 1981, receiving an M.A. in Cognitive Science (NYU, 1988) and a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from University of Rochester (1993).
Manovich has been working with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since 1984. His art projects include little movies, the first digital film project designed for the Web (1994), Freud Lissitzky Navigator, a conceptual software for navigating twentieth century history, and Anna and Andy, a streaming novel (2000). His works has been included in many key international exhibitions of new media art.
In 2005 The MIT Press has published his DVD entitled Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database. The DVD presents three films created by Manovich in collaboration with the artists from different cultural fields. The project was supported by commissions from ZKM Center for Art and Media (Germany) and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (UK).
Manovich has been teaching new media art since 1992. He has also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design, Helsinki Cologne University, and a number of other institutions.
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