[artinfo] In Conversation: Lev Manovich and Aaron Betsky (fwd)

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Subject: In Conversation: Lev Manovich and Aaron Betsky

In Conversation
Lev Manovich and Aaron Betsky
Featuring a performance by Jeremy Bernstein
Thursday 11th  October 2001, 20.30 uur, admission: fl. 10,-
Location: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

Lev Manovich (USA)
Is an Associate Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of
California, San Diego where he teaches courses in new media art and theory.
He is the author of The Language of New Media ( MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura:
Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago UP, 1993). Manovich has been
working with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and
programmer since 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, a streaming novel (2000).

Aaron Betsky (NL)
Is currently director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute and of the
First International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam. He was from 1995 -
2000 Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the author of eight books, including
most recently Landscrapers (Thames & Hudson, 2001) Architecture Must Burn
(Thames & Hudson, 2000), and Queer Space (William Morrow, 1997). He is
Editor-at-Large for Architecture Magazine and a Contributing Editor for
Metropolitan Home, ID and Blueprint.

Starting point of the discussion is Manovich' latest publication The
Language of New Media, wherein 'he offers the first systematic and rigorous
theory of new media' (quote from book sleeve).

Jeremy Bernstein (USA)
Bernstein's work with sound and video has been presented abroad, in
Germany, the Netherlands, England, Spain, and in New York at such venues as
P.S. 122, the Knitting Factory, HERE and The Kitchen. He performs regularly
around Manhattan. Bernstein's work proposes a noisy, nervous, pluralistic
world.

Bookmarks
Lev Manovich
www.manovich.net
Aaron Betsky
www.nai.nl
www.sfmoma.org
Jeremy Bernstein
http://www.bootsquad.com/

See also www.v2.nl/2001
Remote viewing www.v2.nl/live

A project of Las Palmas  International Centre for Visual Culture and Media
technology
Concept and production: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam

This program is supported by:
Las Palmas, International Centre for Visual Culture and Media technology,
Rotterdam 2001, Cultural Capital of Europe, Cultural Affairs City of
Rotterdam, Ministry of OC&W, Luna Internet