Info-Aesthetics: Information and Form by Lev Manovich :: April 22, 2008; 3 - 5 pm :: Studio Ciborra, Fifth Floor, Tower One, London School of Economics and Politics, Houghton Street
London.

The unprecedented growth of information puts new pressures on contemporary societies. We need to invent new ways to interact with information, new ways to represent it, and new ways to make sense of it. How are artists, designers, and architects are responding to these challenges? Rather than trying to defend ourselves against “information glut,” can we approach this situation creatively as the opportunity to invent new forms appropriate for our information-rich world?

Since 2000, Lev Manovich has investigated these questions in a project called Info-Aesthetics. The concept of info-aesthetcis allows us to relate together a wide range of cultural phenomena, including some of the most interesting projects in a variety of areas of contemporary culture: cinema, architecture, space design, fashion, interface design, motion graphics, visual art, computer science, and, of course, information visualization. In his presentation Lev Manovich will report on his latest findings, showing some of the most exciting projects produced to date.

Lev Manovich is a Professor in the Visual Arts Department, University of California San Diego. He is also Director of the Software Studies Initiative at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and a Visiting Research Professor at the iCinema Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney and at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmith College, London. This presentation is a part of Professor Manovich’s forthcoming book Info-aesthetics: Information and Form. [Go here for archived talks from the series]