Lev Manovich wil lecture on Cultural Analytics at Society of the Query conference organized by Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam on November 13-14, 2009:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/
details of the presentation:
title: LEARNING FROM GOOGLE: A SEARCH ENGINE AS A METHOD FOR CULTURAL ANALYSIS
abstract: Can we translate the principles of search engine algorithms and large scale data analysis in general into a new methodology for cultural theory? In my talk I will discuss what such a methodology would look like, and also demonstrate practical examples drawn from Cultural Analytics research conducted in the Software Studies Lab at the University of California, San Diego.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
new 2 year post-doc position with Software Studies / University of Bergen
University of Bergen announced a 2 year Post-doc position in
collaboration with my Software Studies group at UCSD:
The post-doc will divide her/his time between Bergen and San Diego and
will work closely with me and others in my lab on Cultural Analytics
projects.
Cultural Analytics is a new methodology for cultural / media research
which uses information visualization and quantitative data analysis:
lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/09/cultural-analytics.html
www.flickr.com/photos/culturevis/
Both technical people who understand cultural issues and cultural
types who can do tech are welcome to apply.
Information and application:
https://secure.jobbnorge.no/Job.aspx?jobid=61657
Note: if you get a page in Norwegian, click on "English" at the bottom
of the page to switch to English version
collaboration with my Software Studies group at UCSD:
The post-doc will divide her/his time between Bergen and San Diego and
will work closely with me and others in my lab on Cultural Analytics
projects.
Cultural Analytics is a new methodology for cultural / media research
which uses information visualization and quantitative data analysis:
lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/09/cultural-analytics.html
www.flickr.com/photos/culturevis/
Both technical people who understand cultural issues and cultural
types who can do tech are welcome to apply.
Information and application:
https://secure.jobbnorge.no/Job.aspx?jobid=61657
Note: if you get a page in Norwegian, click on "English" at the bottom
of the page to switch to English version
Monday, October 5, 2009
Startup
High resolution versions of images included in the NEH Digital Startup Fall 2009 grant application "Interactive Visualization of Image Collections for Humanities Research" (Dr. Lev Manovich, UCSD).
Examples of visualizations produced using software tools developed by Software Studies initiative:
Interactive exploration of image collection on a HIPerSpace tiled display using our software prototype - zooming into an image.
4553 covers of Time magazine, 1923-2008.
Shot lengths in five reels of the film "The Eleventh Year" (Dziga Vertov, 1928).
153 paintings by Mark Rothko, organized by brightness and saturation.
Changes in Rothko's paintings average brightness over his career.
Tracing branching pathways through the 116 pages of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" gamebook.
Mapping connections between pages in Mark Danielewski's novel House of Leaves.
“Mapping the Song-Dance Sequences of Telugu Cinema”
Research poster visualizing 52 video of song-dance sequences
taken from 13 movies over the course of six decades (1950s-2000s).
Comparing interactivity in ten video games over two decades:
"Seeing How We Play" poster for the SIGGRAPH 2009 Info-Aesthetics exhibition.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Posters at Calit2 Summer Undergraduate Poster Session
Colin Wheelock and Kedar Reddy just presenter their final posters at the Calit2 Summer Undergraduate poster session.
Kedar Reddy presented the poster "Mapping the Song-Dance Sequences of Telugu Cinema." The poster summarized his application of cultural analytic techniques to a collection of 52 video of song-dance sequences taken from 13 movies over the course of six decades (1950s-2000s). His visualizations included image scatterplots, dissimilarity matrices, audio classification bargraphs, hue sparklines, and other forms of information visualization. Kedar's work identified three periods of similar work, a trend towards greater diversity of form over time, and a few key outlier scenes that were highly dissimilar from the others.
Colin Wheelock presented the poster "Understanding the Game: using image processing techniques to study video game play session." The poster summaries his analysis of 10 video games over the course of three decades, focusing how extracting basic feature metrics such as motion and color from gameplay, segmenting gameplay sequences by scene or shot, classifying shots by "interactive / non-interactive" modality, and summarizing and characterizing the variability and differences of interactivity in gampeplay over genre and time.
Kedar Reddy presented the poster "Mapping the Song-Dance Sequences of Telugu Cinema." The poster summarized his application of cultural analytic techniques to a collection of 52 video of song-dance sequences taken from 13 movies over the course of six decades (1950s-2000s). His visualizations included image scatterplots, dissimilarity matrices, audio classification bargraphs, hue sparklines, and other forms of information visualization. Kedar's work identified three periods of similar work, a trend towards greater diversity of form over time, and a few key outlier scenes that were highly dissimilar from the others.
Colin Wheelock presented the poster "Understanding the Game: using image processing techniques to study video game play session." The poster summaries his analysis of 10 video games over the course of three decades, focusing how extracting basic feature metrics such as motion and color from gameplay, segmenting gameplay sequences by scene or shot, classifying shots by "interactive / non-interactive" modality, and summarizing and characterizing the variability and differences of interactivity in gampeplay over genre and time.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Seminar in Brazil about Lev Manovich's theory
The Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos) promoted a Special Seminar (Aula Aberta) about the work of Professor Lev Manovich. Three keynote speakers talked about Manovich's theories on New Media, Software Studies and Cultural Analytics and introduced majors ideas about his work and projects.
The Seminar was opened by Cicero Silva, coordinator of the Software Studies group in Brazil.
Video of the seminar and website:
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
SIGGRAPPH09 Info-aesthetics exhibition posters
We completed two posters for SIGGRAPH 2009 Info-Aesthetics exhibition. The posters show some of the analytical and visualization techniques we have been developing in Software Studies lab as part of our work on Cultural Analytics. Each poster was printed at 100x60 inches.
GAMES POSTER ("HOW WE PLAY"):
design: Sergie Magdalin (UCSD undergraduate student)
data collection, analysis, visualization:
Colin Wheelock (UCSD undergraduate student; Calit2 summer 2009 undergraduate researcher)
Jeremy Douglass (Post-doctoral researcher, Software Studies Initiative, Calit2 + UCSD)
VIDEO POSTER ("MEDIA SPECIES"):
design: Sergie Magdalin (UCSD undergraduate student)
data collection, analysis, visualization:
Tara Zepel (UCSD Visual Arts PhD student)
Kedar Reddy (UCSD undergraduate student; Calit2 summer 2009 undergraduate researcher)
Lev Manovich (Director, Software Studies Initiative, Calit2 + UCSD)
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