Lev Manovich, Ph.D., was born in Moscow in 1960 and based in New York since 1981, is an artist and one of the leading theorists of digital culture and media art. Lev Manovich frequently lectures on new media internationally and has published more than ninety influential articles on new media aesthetics. His book The Language of New Media (2001) is considered by many to be placing new media 'within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan' (Telepolis). He studied art, architecture and computer science in Moscow, and received an M.A. in experimental psychology (New York University, 1988). He obtained a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester (1993) with the work that traced the origins of computers in relation to the avant-garde movements of the 1920s. In 1984, Lev Manovich began working as a designer, programmer and computer animator, and he created the first digital film project designed for the Web, Freud Lissitzky Navigator (1994).

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