Books
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Data Drift: Archiving Media and Data Art in the 21st Century
Data Drift: Archiving Media and Data Art in the 21st Century
Editors: Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, and Lev Manovich. Riga: RIXC, LiepU MPLab, 2015.
Available format: Paperback (296 pages). Available on Amazon.Malraux's imaginary museum has become a reality of our digital age. Every day, a massive amount of new visual, textual, and transactional data is added to this vast arch…
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The Illusions
The Illusions, Digital Original Edition. A BIT of The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014.
Available format:
Ebook.
This new book in the series MIT Press BITS offers an excerpt from a book that has shaped the study of new media. In The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Lev Mano…
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Software Takes Command
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Available formats:
Hardcover, softcover, e-book, Kindle, Google Play, Open Access edition.
This new book from the celebrated author of The Language of New Media is the first to offer a rigorous theory of the technology we all use daily - software for media authoring, access, and sharing.
What motivated developers in the 1960s and 1970s to create the concepts and techniques that now underlie contemporary applications like…