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On Cultural Analytics & AI Aesthetics: Lev Manovich and McKenzie Wark
Thursday, March 25, 2021 7 p.m. Eastern / 4 p.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Leading digital culture theorist Dr. Lev Manovich joins writer and scholar McKenzie Wark for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Stephen Ira.
In this Talk
Lev Manovich
One of the leading theorists of digital culture worldwide and a pioneer in the application of data science for analysis of contemporary culture. Dr. Manovich is the author and editor of 15 books including Cultural Analytics, AI Aesthetics, Theories of Software Culture, Instagram and Contemporary Image, Software Takes Command, Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database and The Language of New Media. He was included in the list of “25 People Shaping the Future of Design” in 2013 and the list of “50 Most Interesting People Building the Future” in 2014. Manovich is a Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. Manovich’s latest book “Cultural Analytics” is published by The MIT Press.
McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark is the author of Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte), among other things. Her book Raving was published in 2023 by Duke University Press.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨