Last thursday Willem – a friend of mine – and I attended a lecture by Lev Manovich at the V2 “Institute for the Unstable Media” in Rotterdam. Quite a number of people showed up, so finding a good place to sit turned out to be problematic. There were two nice seats in front still free, some cocktails on a table next to it, so Willem suggested we sit there 
, but we ended up behind a pillar. Following Lev wasn ‘t always easy, as he spoke a bit incoherently from time to time. Nevertheless, I found his main point interesting: that we should look at new technologies as quantitative change leading to qualitative changes, as well as his remark that all art is in fact a compression of the world.
Below the notes I made
