[iDC] Data Literacy and Cultural Analytics

Sun Oct 2 18:34:23 UTC 2011

Greetings

I am Lev Manovich and my talk at the forthcoming conference will be
called  "Data Literacy and Cultural Analytics"

Here is what I plan to address:

The joint availability of numerous large data sets on the web and free
tools for data scraping, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing enable
potentially anybody to become a citizen data miner. But how do we
enable this in practice?

What are the necessary elements of “data literacy”?

How do we inspire students in traditionally non-quantiative fields
(art history, film and media studies, literary studies, etc.) to start
playing with big data?

One the limitations of the existing popular data analysis and
visualization tools is that they are designed to work with numbers and
texts – but not images and video. To close this gap, In 2007 we have
established Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) at
University of California, San Diego. The lab’s focus in on development
of new visualization methods particularly suited for media teaching
and research.

In my presentation I will show a sample of our projects including
visualization of art, film, animation, video games, magazines, comics,
manga, and graphic design. Our image sets range from 4535 covers of
Time magazine to 320,000 Flickr images from “Art Now” and “Graphic
Design” groups, and one million manga pages.

In September 2011 we released ImagePlot -  free software tool that
visualizes collections of images and video of any size. I will discuss
how we use ImagePlot in classes with both undergraduate and graduate
students to create collaborative projects which reveal unexpected
cultural trends and also make us question our existing concepts for
understanding visual culture and media. You can download software
here:

http://lab.softwarestudies.com/p/imageplot.html

best,

Lev

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Dr. Lev Manovich
Director, Software Studies Initiative, Calit2 <softwarestudies.com>
Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD <visarts.ucsd.edu>

email: manovich.lev at gmail.com
lab: softwarestudies.com
www.manovich.net
twitter.com/manovich
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=668367315
youtube.com/user/softwarestudies

Mailing address:
University of California, San Diego,
Lev Manovich, Visual Arts Department,
9500 Gilman Drive. #0084, La Jolla, CA 92093-0084, U.S.A

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Trebor Scholz <scholzt at newschool.edu> wrote:
> Dear Lev,
>
> All participants introduced their contribution to the summit on the iDC mailing list.
>
> Join the discussion by posting to idc at mailman.thing.net
>
> The discussion leading up to MobilityShifts:
>
> May 2011
> Call
> https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-May/004532.html
>
> June 2011
> Public Library Thread and Introductions
> https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-June/thread.html
>
> July 2011
> Public Library Thread continued + The Future of the Humanities  +
> Hackademia as New Structural Transformation of the Public  Sphere
> https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-July/thread.html
>
> August 2011
> Discussion: The Edupunks' Guide + Are We Changing?
> https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-August/thread.html
>
> September 2011
> From Digital Natives to Digital Outcasts + Can DIY Education be Crowdsourced? + The Aims of Education
> https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-September/thread.html
>
> (initiated and moderated by Trebor Scholz)
>
>
> best,
> Trebor
> =
>
> R. Trebor Scholz, PhD
> Director of the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture
> Chair, MobilityShifts
> The New School
> 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY 10011
>
>
>>>> Lev Manovich <manovich.lev at gmail.com> 09/30/11 3:08 PM >>>
> Jennifer
>
> I am very sorry for not being in touch - classes just started at UCSD this week.
>
> yes of course I am participating.. I am finalizing the abstract and
> will send it to you later today
>
>
> I was not aware that you are making travel arrangements for the
> participants - so I already booked both flights and the hotel.
> I am arriving Dec 12 and departing Dec 16.
>
> However, its very possible that you have a better rate in the hotel
> you are working with - which one is it, and what is the rate?
>
>
> again, my apologies for not being in touch
>
> best
>
> lev
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Jennifer Conley Darling
> <conleydj at newschool.edu> wrote:
>> Dear Lev Manovich,
>> I'm following up as we have not gotten a response from you regarding the
>> confirmation of your date & time, nor a title and description of your talk.
>> We also have not made any flight arrangements for you. I am currently
>> holding a hotel room for three nights (Oct 13-16) in your name and will need
>> to release these at the beginning of next week if you will not be joining
>> us.
>> Please let us know per the below email if you can accommodate the timing.
>> I look forward to your response.
>> Jennifer
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Jennifer Conley Darling
>> <conleydj at newschool.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Lev,
>>> I'm so glad to have you on board for MobilityShifts. The full conference
>>> runs October 10-16. We have you slated to speak in speaker series on Friday,
>>> October 14 from 10-12pm in Wollman Hall located at 65 West 11 Street.
>>> If you'd be so kind as to send a brief description and title of your talk,
>>> we would like to include this in our program, which goes to print late next
>>> week.
>>> Thank you so much and don't hesitate to reach out with questions.
>>> --
>>> Jennifer Conley Darling
>>> Conference Producer
>>> MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
>>> October 10-16, 2011
>>> The New School
>>> 65 West 11 Street
>>> New York, NY 10011
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Lev Manovich <manovich.lev at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes I confirmed already - very happy to participate
>>>>
>>>> what dates will be the conference - 14-16 ?
>>>>
>>>> and my talk?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>>
>>>> Lev
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Losh, Elizabeth <elosh at mail.ucsd.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi Jennifer,
>>>> >
>>>> > Last I heard Lev was on board, but I am cc'ing him.
>>>> >
>>>> > Liz
>>>> >
>>>> > Sent from my iPhone and thus more likely to include nonstandard
>>>> > spelling or syntax.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:23 AM, "Jennifer Conley Darling"
>>>> > <conleydj at newschool.edu
>>>> >  > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Hi Liz,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Trebor had asked me to follow up with you regarding Lev's
>>>> >> participation in MobilityShifts. Have you been able to get
>>>> >> confirmation from him? If so, we would like to begin a direct
>>>> >> communication with Lev regarding location, A/V needs, etc.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Please let me know where things stand as soon as possible.  Thanks
>>>> >> so much.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> --
>>>> >> Jennifer Conley Darling
>>>> >> Conference Producer
>>>> >> MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
>>>> >> October 10-16, 2011
>>>> >> The New School
>>>> >> 65 West 11 Street
>>>> >> New York, NY 10011
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jennifer Conley Darling
>> Conference Producer
>> MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
>> October 10-16, 2011
>> The New School
>> 65 West 11 Street
>> New York, NY 10011
>>
>>
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