It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and past…

- Lev Manovich

During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which d…

- Lev Manovich

... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty y…

- Lev Manovich

We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

- Lev Manovich

Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

- Lev Manovich

As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-…

- Lev Manovich

Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to create the righ…

- Lev Manovich

The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

- Lev Manovich

... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. …

- Lev Manovich