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Interactive application and a public installation commissioned by New York Public Library for its exhibition "The Public Eye" How does a "data city" look like? We did not want to show the data in a conventional way using only graphs and numbers. We...

Interactive web app for exploring a dataset of 3200 Instagram selfie photos shared in 5 global cities, and separate visualizations of these photos created with custom software. Source: Lev Manovich

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. The project develops further the ideas from Selfiecity published early in 2014. For SelfieSaoPaulo,...

Real time comparative visualization of Instagram images as they are uploaded from Taipei and New York created with custom software. Taipei Phototime captures and displays new Instagram images in real time. Two streams of images, one from Taipei and...

Over a few days in February 2014, a revolution took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. How was this exceptional event reflected on Instagram? What can visual social media tell us about the experiences of people during social upheavals? If we look at images of...

High resolution visualizations created with custom software using 2.3 million Instagram photos from 13 global cities. Source: Lev Manovich

High resolution visualizations of 1 million manga pages created with custom software. Source: Lev Manovich

High resolution visualization of all 4535 covers of Time magazine (1923-2009) created with custom software. Source: Lev Manovich

Computer-driven media installation, custom movie generating software, database of video clips, variable configurations. Source: Lev Manovich

Computer-driven media installation with variable narratives and spatial configurations. Source: Lev Manovich