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How to See a City? Photography, Maps, Big Data, and Visualization with Dr. Lev Manovich

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How to See a City? Photography, Maps, Big Data, and Visualization with Dr. Lev Manovich

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19th and 20th-century painters, photographers, filmmakers, and geographers created many different methods to represent city life and the everyday. In the 21st century, artists and scientists introduced additional approaches using new types of urban data and sensors (e.g., social media posts, sensor networks, satellite imagery, etc.). Manovich sketches the evolution of city representation from the 19th century until today and discuss a number of important projects created in the last 15 years.

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YouTube

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Dr. Lev Manovich

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Co-presented by the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies and the School of Information.