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  • 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
  • TimeLine
    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
  • 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
  • Little Movies -
    "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
  • Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, 2011: "Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss undertook their joint, creative actions in combined fields of art and science in late 1980s. (...) We can say that the art of Fleischmann and Strauss has developed in parallel
  • Lev Manovich is an artist and a theorist of new media. He was born in Moscow where he studied fine arts, architecture and computer science. He received an M.A. in experimental psychology from NYU [1988] and a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies
  • Manovich, Lev and Arjen Mulder. "Metadating" the Image In Making Art of Databases, edited by Joke BrouwerRotterdam, NL: V2_ Publishers, 2003.