Lev Manovich

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"Transmitting... I wonder if anyone is receiving my signal." «Everything that is done is for the best». The primary distinction between me, a human artist, and Generative AI is that I am limited. AI is limitless. I have significant restrictions due to the way human abilities, knowledge, learning, and memory work. I can't draw in hundreds of different artists' styles or seamlessly combine them. I can't do the same when it comes to writing or composing music. I am not familiar with every artwork in every museum that has been shot by tourists and is now available on the internet. However, AI can and does. And AI will only advance".

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Lev Manovich is a world-renown innovator and top influencer in many fields, including media theory, digital humanities, cultural analytics, and media art. He was born in Moscow and immigrated to US in 1981. Manovich’s digital art projects were shown in over 110 international exhibitions in Centre Pompidou, ICA London, ZKM, KIASMA, and other leading venues.

Lev Manovich is a Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. He was included in the list of «25 People Shaping the Future of Design» and the list of «50 Most Interesting People Building the Future». He is an author of 180 articles and 15 books that include Cultural Analytics, Instagram and Contemporary Image, and The Language of New Media described as «the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.»

Solo Exhibitions

2023 The Unreliable Past, The Eugénio de Almeida Foundation Art and Culture Cente, Evora, Portugal.

2013 The Aggregate Eye: 13 cities/312,694 people/2,353,017 photos, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, NY.

2010 Shaping Time, Graphic Design Museum, Breda, The Netherlands.2010 Mapping Time, gallery@calit2, La Jolla, CA.

2007 Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia.

2005 Exhibition at The National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.

2005 Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY.

2003 Mission to Earth (Soft Cinema Edition), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, UK.

2002 e-magic v.0.1., Thessaloniki, Greece.

2002 Lev Manovich: Adventures in Digital Cinema, Digital Arts Centre, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK. 2001 Modern OS, Electronic Orphanage, Los Angeles, CA.

1990 Terra Sovietica, Rush Rhees Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. 1980 apartment show, Moscow, Russia.