person

Russia

http://www.manovich.net/

Born in Moscow. Currently he is a Professor in Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego, a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and a Visiting Research Professor at Godsmith College (University of London), De Montfort University (UK) and College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (Sydney). His books include Software Takes Command (released under CC license, 2008), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." He has been working with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since 1984. His art projects include little movies, the first digital film project designed for the Web (1994-), Freud-Lissitzky Navigator - a conceptual software for navigating twentieth century history - and Anna and Andy (2000) - a streaming novel. (source: http://www.manovich.net/) (2011)