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Lev Manovich (born 1960) is an author of books on new media theory, professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, U.S. and visiting professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Manovich's research and teaching focuses on digital humanities, social computing, new media art and theory, and software studies〔(Lev Manovich ) faculty profile at European Graduate School, Saas-Fee.〕 His best known book is ''The Language of New Media'', which has been widely reviewed, translated into ten languages and used in classes around the world. According to reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far-reaching theorization of the subject"〔CAA reviews〕 and "it places new media within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan".〔Telepolis〕 Manovich's latest book ''Software Takes Command'' was published in 2013 by Bloomsbury and the earlier draft was released under a Creative Commons license. His research lab (Software Studies Initiative ) (2007-) pioneered computational analysis of massive collections of images and video ("cultural analytics"). His lab was commissioned to create visualizations of cultural datasets for Google, New York Public Library, MoMA, and other institutions and received support from Twitter, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for Humanities, and Andrew Mellon Foundation, among others. Manovich is one of the editors of Software Studies book series (The MIT Press) and Quantitative Methods in Humanities and Social Science (Springer). His current research interests are cultural analytics, social computing, big data and society, data visualization, digital humanities, history and theory of media, and software studies. ==Biography== Manovich was born in Moscow, USSR, where he studied painting, architecture, computer science, and semiotics.〔http://manovich.net/index.php/about〕 After spending several years practicing fine arts, he moved to New York in 1981. His interests shifted from still image and physical 3D space to virtual space, moving images, and the use of computers in media. While in New York he received an M.A. in Experimental Psychology (NYU, 1988) and additionally worked professionally in 3D computer animation from 1984 to 1992. He then went on to receive Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from University of Rochester 1993, under the supervision of Mieke Bal. His Ph.D. dissertation ''The Engineering of Vision from Constructivism to Computers'' traces the origins of computer media, relating it to the avant-garde of the 1920s.〔Lev Manovich, (The Engineering of Vision from Constructivism to Computers )"〕 Manovich has been working with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since 1984. His art projects include(Little Movies ), the first digital film project designed for the Web (1994-1997), (Freud-Lissitzky Navigator ), a conceptual software for navigating twentieth century history (1999), and ''Anna and Andy'', a streaming novel (2000). He is also well known for his insightful articles, including ”(New Media from Borges to HTML )” (2001) and ”(Database as Symbolic Form )” (1998). In the latter article, he explains reasons behind the popularity of databases, while juxtaposing it to concepts such as algorithms and narrative. His works have been included in many key international exhibitions of new media art. In 2002 ICA in London presented his mini-retrospective under the title ''Lev Manovich: Adventures of Digital Cinema''. Manovich has been teaching new media art since 1992. He has also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, and University of Art and Design Helsinki. In 1993, students of his digital movie making classes at the UCLA Lab for New Media founded the Post-Cinematic Society which organized some of the first digital movie festivals based on his ideas about new media such as database cinema.〔http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/〕 In 2007 Manovich founded (Software Studies Initiative ). The lab is developing Cultural Analytics: computational analysis and visualization of massive cultural visual datasets in the humanities. The lab's past and present collaborators include Museum of Modern Art in NYC, Getty Research Institute, Austrian Film Museum, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and other institutions who are interested in using its methods and software with their media collections. Joining The Graduate Center, City University of New York (2013) On November 8, 2012, it was announced that Lev Manovich would be joining the faculty of the City University of New York's Graduate Center in January 2013, with the goal of enhancing the graduate schools' digital initiatives. He will teach the course "Big Data, Visualization and Digital Humanities", which traces how the explosive growth of social media, combined with the digitization of artifacts by libraries and museums, opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of cultural processes. Students will be introduced to popular open-source tools for data analysis and visualization of large sets of images and video. In the press release announcing the appointment, Manovich expressed excitement about the digital initiatives and grants going on at Graduate Center, and the tremendous pool of intellectual talent in its students and faculty.〔The research at Manovich’s Software Studies Initiative (SSI) at the University of California, San Diego, will be the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), to be housed at the Graduate Center. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lev Manovich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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