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Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database

Authors
Lev Manovich; Andreas Kratky
Publisher
MIT Press
Place
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ETC archive
ETC1132

Abstract

What kind of cinema is appropriate for the age of Palm Pilot and Google? Automatic surveillance and self-guided missiles? Consumer profiling and CNN? To investigate this question, Lev Manovich, one of today's most influential thinkers in the fields of media arts and digital culture, paired with award-winning new media artist and designer Andreas Kratky. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog
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Lev Manovich; Andreas Kratky. Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database. MIT Press. 2005.

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What kind of cinema is appropriate for the age of Palm Pilot and Google? Automatic surveillance and self-guided missiles? Consumer profiling and CNN? To investigate this question, Lev Manovich, one of today's most influential thinkers in the fields of media arts and digital culture, paired with award-winning new media artist and designer Andreas Kratky. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog

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