manovich

Text Time-lapse is a tool I made for seeing how a text changes across its saved drafts.

It runs in your browser. Your files stay on your computer.

Try it: levmanovich.github.io/manovich-inter…

Code: github.com/levmanovich/ma…

What does writing actually look like? Not the final polished text, but the process behind it—all the additions, revisions, and deletions. This visualization traces 10 saved versions of one of my texts (Artificial Aesthetics, chapter 4), developed over 2 months.

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/_6WB42TVbdbY…

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