Reading: The Language of New Media
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media. 333 pages. 2001 MIT press.
I just started it, so I’ll post my comments on it later.All I can say right now is that this book is a must for anyone interested in new media functions and effective applications, such as 3D VW whic borrow extensively from old media and innovate on the old conventions.
In the meantime, here is the editorial summary:
“In this book, Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He palces new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media’s reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame adn mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address hte viewer, and repressent space. He shows how categories adn forms unique to new media, such as interface and database, work wiht the more familiar conventions to make possible a new kind of aesthetic. [...]“
