Dr. Lev ManovichDirector, Software Studies Initiative, Calit2 + UCSD Professor, Visual Arts Department

email: manovich@ucsd.edupersonal web site: www.manovich.net personal blog: databeautiful.netSoftware Studies Initiative: softwarestudies.comYou can also contact me on Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, and Youtube (although using manovich@ucsd.edu will result in a quicker response). You can follow the development of Cultural Analytics at softwarestudies.com

Cultural Analytics: case studies (fall 2008 - spring 2009)

you can find all material in this presentation at softwarestudies.com

Our research is made possible by the support from:

California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2), UCSD DivisionCenter for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) UCSDUCSD Visual Arts DepartmentUCDARnetUCHRINEH Office of Digital HumanitiesSingapore Ministry of Education

Software Studies Initiative Researchers:

Lev Manovich | DirectorNoah Wardrip-Fruin | Associate DirectorJeremy Douglass | Postdoctoral ResearcherCicero Silva | Software Studies BrazilWilliam Huber | Researcher | PhD student, UCSDChanda Carey | Researcher | PhD student, UCSDDaniel Rehn | Researcher | MFA student, UCSD

Software Studies Initiative Collaborators:

Yuri Tsivian, Department of Art History, University of Chicago: cinemetrics.lv | film analysisAdele Eisenstein: Digital Formalism project (Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies (TFM), Vienna University; the Austrian Film Museum; Interactive Media Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology) | film analysisIsabel Galhano Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal | gesture analysisDavid Kirsh, Cognitive Science, UCSD | dance video analysisJim Hollan, Cognitive Science, UCSD | visualization | cultural analytics softwareFalko Kuester, Structural Engineering, UCSD + Calit2 | visualization | cultural analytics softwareYoav Freund, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD | machine vision | cultural analytics softwareKay O’Halloran, Multimodal Analysis Lab, National University of Singapore | Mapping Asian Cultures projectGiorgos Cheliotis: Communication and New Media, National University of Singapore | Mapping Asian Cultures projectMatthew Fuller: Goldsmiths College, University of London | software studiesBenjamin H. Bratton: Visual Arts, UCSD + Calit2 | software studies

MICRO view - visual art data: 25 canonical paintings representing transition from realism

to modernism,1849-1916

MICRO view - visual art

data: 165 paintings by Mark Rothko, 1934-1970

MICRO view - video games

data: screen capture of a game session. game: “Knights of the Old Republic”

MICRO view - time-based media

data: cartoons, music videos, motion graphics, films.

Comparative visualization: Betty Boop cartoon (left) vs. music videos (center and right)

Comparative visualization: Betty Boob cartoon (top) vs. music videos (center and bottom). X axis = time. Y axis = brightness mean.

MICRO view - feature film

data: Dziga Vertov, A Man With a Movie Camera (1929. video file: archive.org

distribution of particular shot type over time. Each bar corresponds to one shot. Bar height = shot length.

Distribution of shot types over time. Bar width = shot length. Top: whole film. Bottom: close-up of the visualization.

Distribution of shot types over time. Left: close-up of the visualization. Top: larger view (part of the film)

Is a shot the most important unit of a film? X axis = time. Y axis = brightness mean. Vertical bar = shot boundaries.

MACRO view - cinema data: average shot length stats on 1100+ feature films from cinemetrics.lv

MACRO view - television data: major USA TV network news. 2 shows per year, 1960-2008.