Selected Art Projects & Exhibitions
1994 – Present
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Unreliable Memories
2024
Lev Manovich. Unreliable Memories. Centro de Arte e Cultura, Évora, Portugal, 2024. 140 pages.
Exhibition catalog with images by Lev Manovich and texts by José Alberto Ferreira, Antonio Somani, Manovich.
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Memory Draw
2024
I designed this PDF catalog for my solo art exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, 12/20/2023 - 02/16/2024. The catalog presents a selection of my recent digital images, a few works on paper from 1981–1986, and also my short texts about these works.
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Visual Earth
2017
Visual Earth is the first study to analyze the growth of image sharing around the world in relation to economic, geographic, and demographic differences. We use a unique dataset of 270 million geotagged images shared on Twitter around the world between 09/2011—06/2014. We also look in detail at image sharing in 100 urban areas situated on six continents.
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On Broadway
2015
The interactive installation and web application "On Broadway" represents life in the 21st-century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span Manhattan.
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Selfiecity
2014
Interactive web app for exploring a dataset of 3200 Instagram selfie photos, and separate visualizations of these photos created with custom software. Together with Dominikus Baur, Jay Chow, Daniel Goddemeyer, Nadav Hochman, Moritz Stefaner, Alise Tifentale, and Mehrdad Yazdani.
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SelfieSaoPaulo
2014
A site-specific project for a media facade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the 2014 SP_Urban Festival. Together with Moritz Stefaner and Jay Chow.
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Taipei Phototime
2014
Real time comparative visualization of Instagram images as they are uploaded from Taipei and New York created with custom software. Together with Jay Chow.
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The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 Hours in Kyiv
2014
“The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 Hours in Kyiv” is the first project to analyze the use of Instagram during a social upheaval. Using computational and data visualization techniques, we explore 13,208 Instagram images shared by 6,165 people in the central area of Kyiv during 2014 Ukrainian revolution (February 17 - February 22, 2014). Together with Jay Chow, Alise Tifentale, and Mehrdad Yazdani. Guest essays by Elizabeth Losh and Svitlana Matviyenko.
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Phototrails
2013
High resolution visualizations created with custom software using 2.3 million Instagram photos from 13 global cities. Together with Nadav Hochman and Jay Chow.
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Manga Style Space
2010
High resolution visualizations of 1 million manga pages created with custom software. Together with Jeremy Douglass and Jay Chow.
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TimeLine
2009
High resolution visualization of all 4535 covers of Time magazine (1923-2009) created with custom software. Together with Jeremy Douglass.
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Mission to Earth (Soft Cinema Edition)
2003-2004
Computer-driven media installation, custom movie generating software, database of video clips, variable configurations. Together with Andreas Kratky.
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Global User Interface (Soft Cinema Edition)
2002-2003
Computer-driven media installation with variable narratives and spatial configurations. Together with Andreas Kratky.
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Freud-Lissitzky Navigator
1999
Freud-Lissitzky Navigator is a computer game prototype; a software narrative; a tool to navigate through 20th century cultural history; an experiment in developing analysis of new media that uses the very forms of new media (in this case, computer games and software interfaces).
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Little Movies
1994-1997
"Little Movies" is a lyrical and theoretical project about the aesthetics of digital cinema, and a eulogy to its earliest form--QuickTime. The project began in 1994 when the World Wide Web was just beginning to gain mass exposure. Manovich's intention was to create cinema for the Web, employing the network limitations as a new aesthetic.