Dr. Lev Manovich is a Professor of Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and founder and Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. In 2013 Manovich appeared in the List of 25 People Shaping the Future of Design. In 2014 he was included in the list of 50 most interesting people building the future (The Verge). Manovich is the author of 13 books including AI Aesthetics (2018), Theories of Software Culture (2017), Instagram and Contemporary Image (2017), Software Takes Command, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005), Soft Cinema (The MIT Press, 2005), The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), Metamediji (Belgrade, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as 140 articles which have been published in 35 countries and reprinted over 500 times. He is also one of the editors of Software Studies book series (The MIT Press) and Quantitative Methods in Humanities and Social Science book series (Springer).