Manovich’s lecture was terrible in terms of both its preparation and its intellectual content. As a member of an audience, I find it disrespectful when a speaker – the keynote speaker no less – does not have a well-prepared talk and fumbles through a generic set of keynote slides. This fumbling was all the more annoying because the audience could not see the whole slide – particularly the text – at once. The examples he provided of “Cultural Analytics” would have been laughed at by any serious social scientist or art historian. I would have laughed too, if I hadn’t been so pissed off.