Painting with Data: A Conversation with Lev Manovich

Painting with Data: A Conversation with Lev Manovich

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By Randall Packer.

While big data has infiltrated our everyday lives, Lev Manovich and his collaborators have explored the data of everyday life as a window on social transformation. We discuss his latest work: The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 Hours in Kiev, a portrait of political upheaval in the Ukraine constructed from thousands of Instagram photos taken over a six day period during the revolution in February of 2014.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/painting-data-conversation-lev-manovich