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Lev manovich moscow, 1960 is a professor at the visual arts department, university of california san diego ucsd. Software runs the warehouses and production lines of amazon, gap, dell, and numerous other companies allowing them to assemble and dispatch material objects around the world, almost in. Lev manovich, umelec, pocitacovy animator, designer a programator, je oznacovan po marshallu mcluhanovi za nejvyznamnejsiho teoretika novych medii ve sve knize principy novych medii the language of new media predstavil pet zakladnich principu novych medii. Manovich is the author of books including ai aesthetics 2018, theories of software culture 2017, instagram and contemporary image 2017,software takes command, bloomsbury academic, 20, black box white cube merve verlag berlin, 2005, soft cinema the mit press, 2005, the language of new media the mit press, 2001, metamediji. Like giedion, manovich is interested in the often anonymous labor of those who make the tools that make the world.
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