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LEARN:

VIS201 spring 2008: syllabi

ICAM150/VIS159 winter 2008: syllabi


{ RECENT} PRESS:

Interview for Razon y Palabra, a leading Latin American journal for communication research - March 27, 2008, Mexico City - listen to podcast

Interview with Cicero Inacio da Silva for the UOL (Universo On-Line), the supplement Tropico (November 12, 2007).

Review of SOFT CINEMA DVD in the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
(selected as the Book of the Month for February 2007).

Le Monde Diplomatique (Norway Edition), “Database as a Cultural Form,” a feature by Trong Lundemo, January 2007.

BESTS:

design / innovation / business:
businesweek innovate

real-time theory: trendwatching

info-aesthetics research: infosthetics

shop: Prada Tokyo | images (12/2003): 1 2 3 4

experience : Yokohama International Port Terminal | images (12/2003): 1 2 3 4 5 6

go east : drive through Chernobyl with Elena

mapping: how news travel on the internet

listen: itconversations

NEW PROJECTS FROM
SOFTWARE STUDIES INITIATIVE:

SOFTWARESTUDIES.COM
web site of Software Studies Initiative

Established April 2007. Supported by Calit2 , CRCA and UCSD.
Directed by Lev Manovich.

Our goals are 1) to facilitate the emerging work in sofware studies around the world and 2) research new ways of using software and cyberinfrastructure for cultural research

List of projects currently in development.


CULTUREVIS.COM
a new web portal to highlist work in visualization of cultural patterns


CULTURAL ANALYTICS
[ supercomputers + supervisualizaiton = superhumanities ]
our vision of how info vis can become a standard tool for cultural and media research

Presentation of Cultural Analytics research environment running on HiperWall at HASTAC II conference, Irvine, Califiornia, May 2008

READ {LATEST ARTICLES}:

The practice of Everyday (Media) Life: Tactics as Strategies | 2/2008

Designing Shanghai, or Why East is the New West | 11/2007
Design in Shanghai, Asia and Eastern Europe vs. "old west"

What comes after Remix? | 2007
reflections on remix culture

Interaction as an Aesthetic Event | 2007
interaction as a designed experience


{ FORTHCOMING } BOOKS:

1. Understanding Metamedia (Software Studies in action) [final title to be determined]
The following articles are based on the book manuscript currently in preparation:
Alan Kay and inventon of Metamedia 2006 | software theory
Understanding Hybrid Media 2007 | motion graphics
(this article contains the key arguments from After Effects articles 1 & 2 + paralleles between motion graphics and architecture + analysis of specific artistsic works)
After Effects, or Velvet Revolution- part1 2006 | motion graphics
After Effects, or Velvet Revolution- part 2 2006 | motion graphics
Import/Export 2006 | design workflow and contemporary design aesthetics
Image Future 2006 | special effects


2. Info-aestheticS: Information and Form
The unprecedented growth of information puts new pressures on contemporary societies. We need to invent new ways to interact with information, new ways to represent it, and new ways to make sense of it. How do artists, designers, and architects are responding to these challenges? Rather than trying to defend ourselves against "information glut," can we approach this situation creatively as the opportunity to invent new forms appropriate for our information-rich world? Since 2000, Lev Manovich has investigated these questions in a project called Info-Aesthetics. The concept of info-aesthetcis allows us to relate together a wide range of cultural phenomena, including some of the most interesting projects in a variety of areas of contemporary culture: cinema, architecture, space design, fashion, interface design, motion graphics, visual art, computer science, and, of course, information visualization.

The following articles are based on the book manuscript currently in preparation:

Info-Aesthetics proposal | spring 2004

Interaction as an Aesthetic Event | 2007 | aesthetisation of interfaces
The Painter of Contemporary Life | 2005 | about Miltos Manetas
Social Data Browser 2006 | about The Dumpster by Golan Levin
Friendly Alien: Object and Interface 2005 | interface and product design
Remixability and Modularity 2005 | remixability and WEB 2.0
The Shape of Information 2005 | summary of Info-aesthetics themes
Scale Effects 2005 | review of IGRID 2005

more articles...


3. Expaded Image
New kinds of images. New uses of images. New dimensions of visual communication. (articles which will be included in this collection.)



PRODUCT { SOFT CINEMA DVD}:
DVD-video with 40 page color booklet
The MIT Press, 2005; reprinted 2006
ISBN 0-262-13456-X

ORDER the DVD at amazon.com
available through The MIT Press, online resellers, and leading museum and art bookstores.

dounload the DVD booklet | the slipcase cover | design proofs


LECTURES { ABSTRACTS }:
descriptions of some of the lectures I presented recently:

How to Track Global Digital Culture
how can we track "global digital culture" (or cultures), with its billions of cultural objects, and hundreds of millions of contributors? More

Media after Software
a set of lectures presented at Art Academy, Gothenberg, Sweden. Notes.

Scale Effects
why scale is the key concept for understanding digital culture now.
Lecture notes. Lecture URLs.

Thinking about User Generated Content
lecture notes

Future Theory
(first presented at @X-Media aRt&D, Singapore, September 28, 2007). New directions for theory of digital culture. More...

"I Chocolate You": aesthetisation of Information Interfaces
A paradigm shift in the design of interfaces - from first iMac (1997) to LG Chocolate (2007) More..

Software Culture
a brief cultural history of how a computer was gradually
turned into a machine for media simulation and new media invention between early 1960s and late 1970s. More...

After Effects, or Invisible Revolution.
After software such as After Effects was adopted by a design and media professionals in the second part of the 1990s, visual language of moving images has fundamentally changed. More...