Anderson Series Lecture by New Media Critic Lev Manovich
November 2, 2006
Lev Manovich, artist, author of The Language of New Media, theorist, and critic of digital culture, will give a lecture titled “After Effects + Photoshop + Illustrator: Design Software and Contemporary Visual Culture” at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 15. The lecture will take place in the First Floor Jury Space, Stuckeman Family Building. The lecture is sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Artists and Scholars Lecture Series and is free to the public.
Manovich, a native of Moscow where he studied fine arts, architecture and computer science, moved to New York in 1981, receiving an M.A. in Cognitive Science from New York University (1988) and a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from University of Rochester (1993). He has been working with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since since 1984. His art projects have been presented by, among others, Chelsea Art Museum (New York), ZKM, the Walker Art Center, KIASMA, Centre Pompidou, and the ICA (London). Manovich's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship 2002-2003, a 2002 Digital Cultures Fellowship from University of California at Santa Barbara, a 2002 Fellowship from The Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, and a 1995 Mellon Fellowship from California Institute of the Arts.
Manovich is the author of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan," Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as over 90 articles which have been published in 28 countries. Currently Manovich is working on two new books: Info-aesthetics and Expanded Image. He is a professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California - San Diego where he teaches new media art and theory. He also directs The Lab for Cultural Analysis which is a part of the California Institute for Information and Telecommunication. Manovich also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, SCI-ARC, Universith of California at Los Angeles, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design (Helsinki), and Hong Kong Art Center. For more information, go to: www.manovich.net.
Contact: Sarah Schwartz, ses32@psu.edu