The Chinese translation of our book Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media is now out. Chinese title: 《AI美学》 (AI Aesthetics). Publisher: Communication University of China Press, 2026. Book details and where to buy: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/_6WB42TVb…

Generative AI brings back a cultural norm that modern art abolished. With a twist.

Speaking tomorrow at “Mapping Digital Art,” MU Hybrid Art House, Eidhoven (part of Dutch Design Week). My presentation is based on a recent article “Seven Worlds of Digital Art”: zurl.co/J6mSR

I’ll be speaking at PROMPT: Art & Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at the Next Nature Museum in Eindhoven. Friday 23 October 2026 · 18:30–21:00 Next Nature Museum · Eindhoven, Netherlands Details and tickets: nextnature.org/en/events/pro…

Contemporary "digital / media arts and culture" was built by a number of pioneering festivals founded between the late 1970s and 2000. How do they describe themselves today? The list shows great diversity, and frequent use of longer phrases instead of short terms.

Soft Cinema II is a software system for making narrative and experimental films. The artist supplies the media and defines general rules; the software assembles a film in real time. It was designed by Lev Manovich - extending further ideas from the original Soft Cinema (2002).

My new project Soft Cinema II is shown at Responsive Dreams festival (Barcelona, 2026).

Soft Cinema II. Premieres at the Responsive Dreams digital arts festival, Granollers (Barcelona), 25–27 September, 2026. Twenty years after the original Software Cinema. Details coming soon. zurl.co/4P5EI

My new article "Seven Worlds of Digital Art" is available for download. Digital art isn't one field. It's seven separate worlds. I map each using the sociology of culture: where the work circulates, who values it, and by what criteria it's judged. manovich.net/index.php/proje…

I was editing a text today - and asked Claude to build a custom tool showing my original alongside the edited version. In these screenshots you can see how I can hover over any correction and see Claude's explanation of why it was suggested.

My new article "Six Worlds of Digital Art: Audiences, Institutions, Values" - free PDF: manovich.net/index.php/proje…

My new text - The Map and the Territory: 4 Art Worlds. They are the market, social media & platforms, the institutions (museums, biennials, and the local art world - and their different criteria for sucess and recognition. And they barely intersect. manovich.net/index.php/proje…

Call for papers: International Conference on the History of Media Arts and Technology 2027.

In a modular system, each chapter or section is completely separate from the rest. In a cumulative system, each chapter or section depends upon the previous ones. It takes far longer and sometimes turns into a real struggle. Try to use modular approach!

The Japanese edition of our book "Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media " has been published! Publisher: BNN bnn.co.jp/ Focus: design and computer/technology books. The segment from Chapter 1 (in Japanese) note.com/bnn_mag/n/n90a4b177…

My 3 research methodologies - (addition to previous post)

I have tried to summarize my 17 books and 225 articles published over 35 years into 7 research themes. Of course, you immediately realize that something is missing.. Anyway, this is what I came up with.

This is the best theoretical book about the GenAI medium that I have read so far. Leonardo Impett & Fabian Offert, Vector Media (University of Minnesota Press, April 2026) zurl.co/ig6Ci

Speaking today at VivaTech Paris, the largest IT conference in Europe (200,000 visitors, 15,000 startups)

This week I'm speaking at the largest IT conference in Europe - #VivaTech Paris. Honored to be speaking next to the CEO of Adobe and the CEO of Netflix - and the creator of Tetris! If you are attending and want to come to my session, it's on the 17th: zurl.co/sx2q2