Any critical discussion of new media has to deal with the problem of interface. To put this differently, the rise of new media forces us to rethink our existing aesthetic categories and to consider new ones.
Interface is the most important such category.
Bio Lev Manovich is an artist and a theorist of new media. Manovich was born in Moscow where he studied fine arts, architecture and computer science. He has been teaching digital arts since 1992. Manovich lectures widely on new media theory and aestetics, and his writings have been published in many countries. In 1995 he was awarded a Mellon Fellowship in Art Criticism by California Institute of the Arts.