Parsing the Languages of the New Media: a critical examination of Lev Manovich’s Language of New Media.

Parsing the Languages of the New Media is a blog about Lev Manovich’s book The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), which took an academic approach to discussing new media, computer-mediated art, and new media art practices within the framework of historical visual and media cultures. The book addressed the aesthetic features of new media, and, as a practitioner himself, as well as a lecturer at the University of California, Manovich was one of the first academics to offer a systematic and rigorous theory of new media. The blog (by postgraduate film student David Witzling) offers page-by-page commentaries on the book, with cross-linking, and links embedded in the text to other websites.

There are 4 copies of the book in the UCL Main Library at ART TA MAN.