new article “What is Visualization?”
A new 8,000 word article “What is Visualization?” -an analysis of the key principles behind visualization practice during its first 300 years,and the new 21st century developments in ”media visualization.”
download the article: manovich_visualization_2010.doc
image: montage of the visualizations by Software Studies Initiative included in the exhibition Mapping Time at gallery@calit2, October 4-December 12, 2010.

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