Navigating styles: a critical recension of Instagram and contemporary image by Lev Manovich

Abstract

The author Lev Manovich is a Russian academic and digital culture thinker, well known in the digital arts and culture since the publication of his book The language of new media (2001) in which he develops an original approach to reflect on how new media and technology is intersecting different aspects of contemporary culture, drawing parallelisms with the developing of cinema in the 20th century, aesthetics and the translation to a numerical world, enunciating a systematic and rigorous approach to understanding new media...