live webcast: Variable Media-lecture by Lev Manovich

international | arts and media | event notice Tuesday November 01, 2005 16:54 by dunk fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk

live from V2 in Rotterdam

Lev Manovich gives a lecture about "variable media generation", the new cultural and media paradigm of the 21st century. Manovich argues that this new paradigm as a whole is destined to replace the older paradigm of standardized mass production that we inherited from an extinct industrial era.
time 18:00-20:00 (gmt)

further details from V2 website
http://www.v2.nl/portal2004/events/channel/item.sxml?

see also
http://www.manovich.net/

Manovich live webcast lecture on variable media generation

Lev Manovich is the author of Soft CInema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), which was hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." He is a Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, and a Director of The Lab for Cultural Analysis at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. This Fall he is a researcher in residence at Piet Zwart Institute | Willem de Kooning Academy | Hogeschool Rotterdam.

V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Founded in 1981, V2_ is an organization that concerns itself with research and development in the field of art and media technology. V2_'s activities include organizing (public) presentations, research in its own media lab, publishing, developing an online archive and a shop offering products that are related to V2_'s area of interest.