Tag Archives: Lev Manovich

Clouded Software or Software in the Clouds

Jan Bajec | 15 October 2009, 11:29 pm | tags: , , , , ,

The Cloud is all in one; storage of data, software as a service, Web 2.0, and so much more. It is the network of computers that distribute processing power, applications, and large systems among many machines (we already use some cloud-based applications like YouTube or Amazon’s cloud). It is bigger than the sum of its pieces.

“I’ve had the best breakfast ever” – say it using 14, 140 and 1400 symbols

Hania Piotrowska | 10 October 2009, 8:51 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Phatic communication is a term first used by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski to describe a communicative gesture that does not inform or exchange any meaningful information or facts about the world. Its purpose is a social one, to express sociability and maintain connections or bonds. We can call it small talk.

Are words in Phatic Communion used primarily to

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Lev’s lecture (2)

Jan Simons | 30 May 2009, 5:37 pm | 2 comments | tags: ,

Lev’s lecture (2)

Lev Manovich’s lecture on May 17 in Paradiso, Amsterdam had at least one unmistakeable feature of a good lecture: it rose controversy. Already immediately after concluding his presentation, Lev was accused during the Q&A of endangering the humanities by reducing culture to numbers and erasing human intentionality and creativity, those long cherished but already for quite some…

Remixing Cinema Discussion Streams: Sean Cubitt and Lev Manovich

Twan Eikelenboom | 24 January 2008, 12:54 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Danube Telelectures

For the Danube Telelecture series, Sean Cubitt ( “Immersion, Connectivity, Conviviality”) and Lev Manovich (“After Effects, or Invisible Revolution”) gave lectures and discussed the topic of Remixing Cinema: The Future and Past of the Moving Image. Cinema as a visual phenomenon has accelerated increasingly over the last decades. Technical achievements at the material level like new participatory…

Lev Manovich on User Generated Content @ Video Vortex

Anne Helmond | 05 October 2007, 5:48 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

The following post is a combination of a transcription of Manovich’s keynote and my own notes and commentary.

Introduction by Geert Lovink

Lev Manovich @ Video VortexOnline video is renegotiating its (problematic) relationship with cinema. It deals with cinematographic principles versus the principles of the online age. We cannot directly transfer the cinematographic principles into the online age as new media has its own…