Universal Synthesizer and Window: Cellular Automata as a New Kind of Cybernetic Image

Seeing the smart city on Twitter: Colour and the affective territories of becoming smart

“…There are few studies of tweeted images, and most focus on analysing the content of those images. They use a "blended" approach (Lewis et al, 2013: 36), which assumes that large numbers of tweeted images can be analysed, sometimes automatically, to produce patterns of varying degrees of interest, but that the (more important) meaning of tweeted images must be identified by human observers looking at much smaller numbers (see Hochman and Manovich, 2013;Manovich and Douglass, 2011;Vis et al, 2013). In fact, most studies of tweeted images conduct a manual content analysis on a few hundred tweeted images at most (see for example Cowart et al, 2016;Kharroub and Bas, 2015;Seo, 2014;Thelwall et al, 2016;Vis et al, 2013).…”

Rethinking the geographies of cultural ‘objects’ through digital technologies

“…There are in fact already a number of software packages that can retrieve large numbers of images automatically, and others, mostly commercial, that can recognise patterns in the visual content of very large numbers of image files. The Software Studies Initiative has also made software available to allow the analysis and visualisation of large numbers of images (Manovich and Douglass 2011). 5 However, as Hall (2013) argues, the methodological challenge is not simply one of scale which simply requires bigger and faster forms of content analysis.…”

Humanities in the Twenty-First Century

“…Emerging paradigms of humanistic tinkering are conducted under a myriad of banners, including the digital humanities , critical code studies (Marino 2006), cultural analytics (Manovich and Douglass 2011 ), digital forensics (Kirschenbaum 2008), platform studies (Montfort and Bogost 2009), and bioart (Kac 2007;Wohlsen 2011). Taken together, these initiatives probe software, hardware, and biological wetware in a manner that blurs the line between the humanities and its disciplinary others.…”