Lev Manovich: Software Takes Command: Or, Life after After Effects
Lev Manovich was born in Moscow and moved to New York in 1981. He studied fine arts, architecture, animation, and programming before starting to work with computer media in 1984. Since the mid-1990s, his projects have been shown in the key international exhibitions of new media art. In 2003 ICA London presented a retrospective of his works entitled "Lev Manovich: Adventures in Digital Cinema." Currently he is working on a five-year project Soft Cinema which was supported by commissions from ZKM (2002) and BALTIC (2003). He is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of The Language of New Media (2001) and Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture(1993).
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