Lev Manovich

Lev Manovich ( MAN-ə-vitch) is an author of books on new media theory, and professor of Computer Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Manovich's research and teaching focuses on digital humanities, social computing, new media art and theory, and software studies.Manovich is also the founder and director of the Cultural Analytics Lab (called Software Studies Initiative 2007-2016), which was described in an associated press release as the first attempt at 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, and New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).One of his books, The Language of New Media, has been translated into thirteen languages. Manovich's latest academic book Cultural Analytics was published in 2020 by the MIT Press.