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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