www.egs.edu Lev Manovich, new media theorist, talking about software studies, new media, effects of software on society, and social media. In the lecture, Lev Manovich discusses Bruno Latour, visualization in relationship to architecture, flow of information, visual imagination, interactive visualization, focusing on culture visualization, and visualization techniques. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Lev Manovich. Lev Manovich is an artist, one of the leading theorists of digital culture and media art, a Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, US and a Professor of Cultural Analytics at the European Graduate School (EGS). He was born in Moscow in 1960 and has been based in New York since 1981. Lev Manovich frequently lectures on new media internationally and has published more than ninety influential articles on new media aesthetics. Lev Manovich’s works include Software Takes Command (2008), Black Box — White Cube (2005), Soft Cinema DVD (2005), The Language of New Media (2001), Metamediji (2001), and Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (1993). His art was included in many key international exhibitions, including a retrospective by ICA, London entitled Lev Manovich: Adventures of Digital Cinema (2002). Lev Manovich is an artist, one of the leading theorists of digital culture and media art, a Professor of …