Dr. Lev Manovich is an artist and a theorist of digital culture. He was included in the list of "25 People Shaping the Future of Design" in 2013 and the list of "50 Most Interesting People Building the Future" in 2014. He is the author and editor of 14 books including Cultural Analytics, AI Aesthetics, and The Language of New Media, which was described as "the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." Manovich is a Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. His digital art projects have been shown in over 100 group and personal exhibitions worldwide at venues that include New York Public Library, Google's Zeitgeist 2014, Shanghai Art and Architecture Biennale, Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM, The Walker Art Center, KIASMA, Centre Pompidou, and ICA London.