dr. lev manovich director, software studies initiative, calit2 + ucsd professor, visual arts...
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Dr. Lev ManovichDirector, Software Studies Initiative, Calit2 + UCSD Professor, Visual Arts Department
email: [email protected] web site: www.manovich.net personal blog: databeautiful.netSoftware Studies Initiative: softwarestudies.comYou can also contact me on Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, and Youtube (although using [email protected] will result in a quicker response). You can follow the development of Cultural Analytics at softwarestudies.com
Cultural Analytics: case studies (fall 2008 - spring 2009)
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you can find all material in this presentation at softwarestudies.com
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Our research is made possible by the support from:
California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2), UCSD DivisionCenter for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) UCSDUCSD Visual Arts DepartmentUCDARnetUCHRINEH Office of Digital HumanitiesSingapore Ministry of Education
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Software Studies Initiative Researchers:
Lev Manovich | DirectorNoah Wardrip-Fruin | Associate DirectorJeremy Douglass | Postdoctoral ResearcherCicero Silva | Software Studies BrazilWilliam Huber | Researcher | PhD student, UCSDChanda Carey | Researcher | PhD student, UCSDDaniel Rehn | Researcher | MFA student, UCSD
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Software Studies Initiative Collaborators:
Yuri Tsivian, Department of Art History, University of Chicago: cinemetrics.lv | film analysisAdele Eisenstein: Digital Formalism project (Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies (TFM), Vienna University; the Austrian Film Museum; Interactive Media Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology) | film analysisIsabel Galhano Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal | gesture analysisDavid Kirsh, Cognitive Science, UCSD | dance video analysisJim Hollan, Cognitive Science, UCSD | visualization | cultural analytics softwareFalko Kuester, Structural Engineering, UCSD + Calit2 | visualization | cultural analytics softwareYoav Freund, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD | machine vision | cultural analytics softwareKay O’Halloran, Multimodal Analysis Lab, National University of Singapore | Mapping Asian Cultures projectGiorgos Cheliotis: Communication and New Media, National University of Singapore | Mapping Asian Cultures projectMatthew Fuller: Goldsmiths College, University of London | software studiesBenjamin H. Bratton: Visual Arts, UCSD + Calit2 | software studies
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MICRO view - visual art data: 25 canonical paintings representing transition from realism
to modernism,1849-1916
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MICRO view - visual art
data: 165 paintings by Mark Rothko, 1934-1970
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MICRO view - video games
data: screen capture of a game session. game: “Knights of the Old Republic”
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MICRO view - time-based media
data: cartoons, music videos, motion graphics, films.
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Comparative visualization: Betty Boop cartoon (left) vs. music videos (center and right)
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Comparative visualization: Betty Boob cartoon (top) vs. music videos (center and bottom). X axis = time. Y axis = brightness mean.
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MICRO view - feature film
data: Dziga Vertov, A Man With a Movie Camera (1929. video file: archive.org
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distribution of particular shot type over time. Each bar corresponds to one shot. Bar height = shot length.
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Distribution of shot types over time. Bar width = shot length. Top: whole film. Bottom: close-up of the visualization.
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Distribution of shot types over time. Left: close-up of the visualization. Top: larger view (part of the film)
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Is a shot the most important unit of a film? X axis = time. Y axis = brightness mean. Vertical bar = shot boundaries.
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MACRO view - cinema data: average shot length stats on 1100+ feature films from cinemetrics.lv
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MACRO view - television data: major USA TV network news. 2 shows per year, 1960-2008.
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