European Humanities University and Contemporary Art Centre
present a series of public lectures by distinguished scholars in Visual and Cultural Studies

Tuesday 27 April, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
Lev Manovich “Visualization as The New Language of Theory”

Lev Manovich is a Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California - San Diego (UCSD) where he teaches practical courses in digital art as well as history ad theory of digital culture. Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (2008), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005), Soft Cinema DVD (The MIT Press, 2005), The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as 94 articles which have been published in 30+ countries and reprinted over 300 times. The Language of New Media is translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, Slovenian, Latvian, Greek, Korean and Lithuanian. In 2007 Manovich has founded Software Studies Initiative in order to facilitate the work in the new emerging field of software studies. The lab is also developing a new paradigm of Cultural Analytics: data mining and visualization of patterns in large cultural data sets.
The lecture will be followed by the presentation of the book The Language of New Media (translated into Lithuanian)


Thursday 29 April, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
Scott Lash “Capitalist Power and the Social Imaginary”

Saturday 1 May, 18.00, CAC Reading Room
Janet Wolff “The question of a sociological poetics: metaphors, models and theory”


This series is sponsored by HESP OSI and held in the framework of HESP Challenge seminar Visual Studies of Immedia: Exporing the Postmodern Immediacy of mass media (EHU, Laboratory of Visual and Cultural Studies)
For more information on these and other events, please visit the websites at:
www.ehu.lt, www.viscult.ehu.lt