[rohrpost] tm.salon: Lev Manovich: The Language of New Media, 16.10.

[Andreas Broeckmann]

transmediale salon:

Lev Manovich: The Language of New Media

Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2001, 20.00 Uhr
Podewil, Klosterstr.68-70, Berlin-Mitte
Eintritt: DM 10 / DM 8
(in englischer Sprache)

[diesmal begrenzte Platzzahl: bitte, rechtzeitig reservieren!]


Lev Manovich, Medienwissenschaftler am Visual Arts Department der
University of California, San Diego/US, stellt sein neues Buch vor, The
Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001). Hierin entwirft Manovich eine
umfassende Interpretation der digitalen =C4sthetik, die seiner Meinung nach
in unmittelbarer Nachfolge der Filmavantgarde der 1920er Jahre steht.
(http://www.manovich.net)


'Manovich has given us a book, the book, we had hoped for. We can disagree
with it. We can and will find other examples, different to the wonderful
range of games, net.art, installations and movies he works with. Cinema
theorists and historians will enjoy the claims that all of this novelty is
the flowering of a potentiality latent in film since its first steps, or
before in the phantasmagorias and thaumatropes of the 18th and 19th
centuries. The ravishing breadth of digital reference is one of the books
strengths, and there's more than enough here to suggest to any instructor
that the ideas can be debated in evolving contexts. If MIT Press relent in
the usual practice of holding significant new titles in hardcover only for
a year or two at a stretch, the book will be in every library, and students
everywhere will be clutching it like Mao's Red Book, Diamat of the
Immaterialist generation. Best of all, after 'Languages of the New Media',
we can argue on our own terrain.' (Sean Cubitt, University of Waikato, New
Zealand, im Leonardo Digital Review)


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