Books
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Lev Manovich: all articles 1991-2007
Inventing a new publication format for AI era
This publication is an experiment: a single human and machine-readable file that combines all articles I wrote between 1991 and 2007 (65 articles, 288,000 words). All articles were reformatted in the same way and assembled into a single text file (with minimal markup). Along with this text file, we are also making available PDF and HTML versions:
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Cultural Analytics
Full text of the book (PDF):
Color illustrations and projects:
Visuals and descriptions of all projects by Cultural Analytics Lab discussed in the book.
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AI Aesthetics
Lev Manovich. AI Aesthetics. Moscow: Strelka Press, 2019.
AI plays a crucial role in global cultural ecosystem. It recommends what we should see, listen to, read, and buy. It helps us make aesthetic decisions when we create media. In professional cultural production, AI has already been adopted to produce movie trailers, music albums, fashion items, product and web designs, architecture, etc. In this short book, Lev Manovich offers a systematic framework for understanding cultural ef…