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ARTICLES
Visualizing Vertov, 2013
Media After Software, 2012
How to Follow Software Users? 2012
Museum Without Walls, Art History Without Names, 2012
Style Space: How to compare image sets and follow their evolution, 2011 (series of blog posts)
Inside Photoshop, 2011
How To Compare One Million Images? 2011
Software Studies, 2008, revised 2011
Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Collections of Images and Video, 2011
From Reading to Pattern Recognition, 2011
Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data, 2011
There is Only Software, 2009, 2011
Understanding Scanlation: How to Read One Million Fan-Translated Manga Pages, 2010 (with Jeremy Douglass and William Huber), 2010
What is Visualization? 2010
Cultural Analytics: Visualing Cultural Patterns in the Era of “More Media”, 2009
How to Follow Global Digital Cultures, or Cultural Analytics for Beginners, 2009
Visualizing Change, 2009 (with Jeremy Douglass)
Introduction to Info-Aesthetics, 2008
The practice of Everyday (Media) Life, 2008
Designing Shanghai, or Why East of the New West, 2007
What comes after Remix? 2007
Interaction as an Aesthetic Event, 2007
Understanding Hybrid Media, 2007
Alan Kay's Universal Media Machine, 2006
After Effects, or Velvet Revolution - part 1, 2006
After Effects, or Velvet Revolution - part 2, 2006
Import/Export: Workflow and Aesthetics of Graphic Design, 2006
Social Data Browser, 2006
Friendly Alien: Object and Interface, 2006
Image Future, 2006
Scale Effects, 2005
Remixability and Modularity, 2005
The Shape of Information, 2005
Abstraction and Complexity, 2004
Moving Image Culture after Computerisation: an outline, 2003
New Media and Remix Culture (introduction to Korean edition of LNM), 2003
Don't Call it Art, 2003
Data Visualisation as New Abstraction and Anti-Sublime, 2002
Metadata, Mon Amour, 2002
Generation Flash, 2002
Welcome to the Multiplex: Documenta 11, 2002
10 Key Texts on New Media Art (1970-2000), 2002
Models of Authorship in New Media, 2002
The Poetics of Augmented Space, 2002 (updated 2005)
New Media from Borges to HTML, 2001 | IMAGES
Post-media Aesthetics, 2001
Reality Media, 2001
My Favorite Fashion Sites (for Art Forum), 2001
Information and Form, 2000
Macro-media and Micro-media, 2000
Avant-garde as Software, 1999
New Media: a User's Guide, 1999
Review of Stars Wars: Episode 1, 1999
Cinema by Numbers, 1999
The Camera and the World: the Art of Tamás Waliczky, 1998
Database as a Symbolic Form, 1998
Navigable Space, 1998
Cinema as a Cultural Interface, 1997
Jump Over Proust, 1997
Behind the Screen / Russian New Media, 1997
On Totalitarian Interactivity, 1996
The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds: Report from Los Angeles, 1996
Cinema and Telecommunication / Distance and Aura, 1996
Automation of Sight from Photography to Computer Vision, 1997
Reading New Media Art, 1995
Archeology of a Computer Screen, 1995
To Lie and to Act: Potemkin's Villages, Cinema and Telepresence, 1995
What is Digital Cinema? 1995
Cinema and Digital Media, 1995
The Labor of Perception, 1995
From the Externalization of the Psyche to the Implantation of Technology, 1995
The Engineering of Vision and the Aesthetics of Computer Art, 1994
Paradoxes of Digital Photography, 1994
The Mapping of Space: Perspective, Radar and 3-D Computer Graphics, 1993
SELECTED TRANSLATIONS
The following are some of the translations available online. For a complete list, see CV.
Post-media Aesthetics | Latvian
An interview about The Language of New Media (Daniel Palmer - Lev Manovich) | Latvian
The Poetics of Augmented Space | Spanish
Database as a Symbolic Form | Spanish
The Language of New Media | Spanish
Detour to the East | German
Jump over Proust | German
Behind the Screen / Russian New Media | German
On Totalitarian Interactivity | German
The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds: Report from Los Angeles | German
What is Digital Cinema? | German | Spanish
Respect for Distance. Film/Telecommunication - Benjamin/Virilio | German
The Labor of Perception | German
SELECTED INTERVIEWS / DIALOGS
Cultural analytics, software studies, and photography, interview by Gloria Sutton for FOAM no. 27, Summer 2011
Manovich: A Bomb for the Academy, interview by Янина Пруденко (in Russian), spectacularpractices.com, Nov. 4, 2010
Interview for коридор by Янина Пруденко (in Russian), Nov. 3, 2010
Interview for digicult.it by Giulia Simi, Milan 2010
Interview for Archive 2020 by Niels Kerssens and Annet Dekker, Amsterdam 2009
Interview for HPCwire by Kevin D. Franklin and Karen Rodriguez'G, ICHASS, July 2008
Interview for Spiegel, August 2006
Interview for Cluster by Domenico Quaranta, Milan 2004
Interview for Domus by Stefania Garassini, Milan 2003
Dialog between Lev Manovich and Jenny Marketou, Breeder 5, Authens 2002
Interactive Interview by Margarete Vöhringer and Birk Weiberg for Keyframe, Berlin 2002
Interview for Neural, Italy 2002
Interview for Plug-in Cinema, 2002
Interview for Histories of Internet Art, 2002
Interview for TAZ (in German), 2001
Self-interview for The MIT Press, 2001
Interview for Real Time Daniel Palmer, Australia 2001
Interview for rait.it by Marco Deseriis, Italy, 2001
Dialog between Lev Manovich and Geoffrey Batchen for Afterimage, 2001
Interview by the editors, SWITCH 5, no. 3 (special issue on Database), San Jose, 2000
Dialog between Lev Manovich and Geert Lovink: Digital Constructivism - What is European Software? 1998
