Speaker: Professor Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Title: How to see 2 million Instagram photos? Visualizing patterns in art, films, mass media, and user-generated content

CUNY Data Mining Initiative

Friday, September 27, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)

Bio: Lev Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is described as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” Manovich is a Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY and a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at CUNY and California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2).