Lev Manovich. Software Studies As Cultural Tool 2009 1/5
www.egs.edu Manovich teaching a class entitled Software Studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Manovich emphasises that software studies here means not simply the study of the platforms behind the software which produces culture, but is in turn used to look at culture itself, and how the production of knowledge, altered through software development has changed society and culture. His interests lie in the visualization of the organization of knowledge, including the monitoring of users. He discussed recent projects, including an analysis of television news programs from the 1960s to the present. Public open lecture to the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Lev Manovich 2009. Lev Manovich is one of the most significant voices in internet criticism today. Working as an artist and net theorist as well as a professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California at San Diego, he also directs the Software Studies Initiative at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. As well, he is a visiting research professor at both Goldsmiths College, London, and De Montfort College as well as the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Manovichs most well known book, The Language of New Media, has influenced scores of students, artists and activists since it was published in 2001. In The …
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