Database as a symbolic form 5 July 2013 Samuel Pushpak Information and Interface Design Lev Manovich’s 

Lev Manovich - Author of The Language of New Media which is the first rigorous and far-reaching theorization of new media. - Born in Moscow and has been teaching new media art since 1992. 

New Media 1. Cyberculture 2. Computer Technology Used as a Distribution Platform 3. Digital Data Controlled by Software 4. Mix Between Existing Cultural Conventions and the Conventions of Software 5. Aesthetics that Accompanies the Early Stage of Every New Modern Media and Communication Technology 6. Faster Execution of Algorithms Previously Executed Manually or through Other Technologies 7. Encoding of Modernist Avant-Garde; New Media as Metamedia 8. Parallel Articulation of Similar Ideas in Post-WWII Art and Modern Computing 

Key Words 1. New Media Object 2. Database 3. Narrative 

Db as a Symbolic Form 1. The Database Logic 2. Data and Algorithm 3. Database and Narrative 4. Semiotics of Database 5. A Database Complex 6. Database Cinema: Geenaway and Vertov 

Class Discusion 1. PI’s epic journey http://journey.lifeofpimovie.com/#!/ 2. The Wilderness Downtown by Chris Milk http://thewildernessdowntown.com/