News (publications, projects, exhibitions)
Italian translation of Artificial Aesthetics published, February 2026.
Spanish translation of Artificial Aesthetics published, December 2025.
Chinese translation of Cultural Analytics published, November 2025.
Ideal City series - showing in group exhibition "Expand and Contract: AI and Alternative Processes," Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, June-August, 2025
Keynote speaker at The Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images City (Venice) and ISEA 2025 (Seoul), May 2025
Drawing Rooms - participating in group exhibition SYMBIOSIS: Art in the Age of AI, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, January-March, 2025
Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual media - final versions of all book chapters are now available, 01/15/2025; signed contract for the Chinese translation
Library of Unwritten Manuscripts - art project shown in group exhibition “Careful Details,” Museum Guttuso, 10/4/2024-12/4/2024
Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, art and visual media - our book manuscript is now completed and sent to our Spanish publisher - 09/29/2024
From Museum Without Walls to Generative AI Museum - new short article - 08/31/2024
Modularity as an Aesthetic Category - new article - 08/26/2024
'Make it New’ - GenAI, Modernism, and Database Art - new article - 07/20/2024
Chapter 7 of Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, art and visual media - new book chapter released 03/27/2024
Chapter 6 of Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, art and visual media - new book chapter released 01/15/2024
Memory, Draw - catalog of Manovich's solo art exhibition in Seoul, South Korea (12/20/2023 - 2/16/2024)
Unreliable Memory - Manovich solo exhibition featuring 50 artworks (1981-2023) in Évora, Portugal (11/18/2023 - 5/05/2024)
manovich.art - website for my new AI artworks - October 1, 2023
"The AI Brain in the Cultural Archive" - article commissioned by MoMA (NYC), 06/27/2023
"Towards ‘General Artistic Intelligence’?" - article commissioned by Art Basel, 06/01/2023
Chapter 5 of Artificial Aesthetics: A Critical Guide to AI in Art, Media, and Design - new book chapter about AI images and generative media released - 04/20/ 2023
Lev Manovich: all articles 1991-2007 - a single text file with my 65 articles published between 1991 and 2007; also available in PDF and HTML formats (December 2022)
AI-aesthetics and the Anthropocentric Myth of Creativity - new article (Summer 2022)
On New Beauty: Dialog Between Lev Manovich and Margarita Kukeva - conversation (Summer 2022)
Nike, Adidas, or Asics? Evolution of sneakers design in 1999-2022 as seen by a neural net - conference paper (Spring 2022)
How to Predict Future Culture? - class (Fall 2021)
Interfaces for a Global Village - new article (June 2021)
AI and Myths of Creativity - 40 slides for a new lecture (June 2021)
Museum of Pictorial Culture: - new article (Spring 2021)
How to Predict Culture in 2050? - class (Fall 2020 / Spring 2021)
From Poet to Engineer - new article (Winter 2021)
Computer vision, human senses, and language of art - article (11/2020)
Cultural Analytics - New book published by the MIT Press on October 20, 2020 (available as hardcover and e-book, 300 pages)
Design and Data Visualization course - lecture notes and resources (Fall 2020)
The Aesthetic Society - article (4/2020)
Defining AI Arts - Three Proposals - article (6/2019)