As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies.… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens.… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic. — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open. — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence. — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation,… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
![“... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual…” quote by Lev Manovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f1/lev-manovich-41544_ability_what-is-faked-by-the-computerization-of_753083.jpg)
