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'''Peter Lunenfeld''' (born 1962, in [[New York City]]) is a [[critic]] and [[theorist]] of [[digital media]]. He is a professor and the Vice Chair of the [http://design.ucla.edu Design Media Arts] department at [[UCLA]], director of the Institute for Technology and Aesthetics (ITA), and founder of ''mediawork'': The Southern California New Media Group.<ref name= "mediawork">{{cite web |url=http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/mediawork/mediawork_lunenfeld.html |title= Editorial Director Peter Lunenfeld |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|website= Mediawork Pamphlets|access-date= 2015-07-06}}</ref>
'''Peter Lunenfeld''' (born 1962, in [[New York City]]) is a [[critic]] and [[theorist]] of [[digital media]], [[digital humanities]], and [[urban humanities]]. He is a professor and the Vice Chair of the Design Media Arts department at [[UCLA]], director of the Institute for Technology and Aesthetics (ITA), and founder of ''mediawork'': The Southern California New Media Group.<ref name= "mediawork">{{cite web |url=http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/mediawork/mediawork_lunenfeld.html |title= Editorial Director Peter Lunenfeld |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|website= Mediawork Pamphlets|access-date= 2015-07-06}}</ref>


Lunenfeld is a leading figure in digital aesthetic theory, set on establishing philosophical quandaries regarding digital technology and its role in art, design and culture. His most famous book, ''Snap to Grid'' incorporates traditional and continental theories of art to account for digital media. His work revolves around the discources of technology, [[aesthetics]], and cultural theory, establishing the complexity of digital aesthetics while simultaneously categorizing it.<ref name= "mediawork"/>
Lunenfeld is a leading figure in digital aesthetic theory, set on establishing philosophical quandaries regarding digital technology and its role in art, design and culture. Works like ''Snap to Grid'' and ''The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading'' incorporate traditional and continental theories of art to account for digital media. His work revolves around the discourses of technology, [[aesthetics]], and cultural theory, establishing the complexity of digital aesthetics while simultaneously categorizing it.<ref name= "mediawork"/>


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His books include ''City at the Edge of Forever'', ''Digital_Humanities'', ''USER'', ''Snap to Grid'', and ''The Digital Dialectic''. Lunenfeld is the editorial director of the highly designed Mediawork pamphlet series for the MIT Press. The series features commissioned writings that weave life stories into "theoretical and critical praxis."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gonzales Crisp|first=Denise|title=Discover This! Designers and Alternative Critical Writing|journal=Design and Culture|publication-date=2009|volume=1|issue=1}}</ref> These award-winning "theoretical fetish objects" cover the intersections of art, design, technology, and market culture. Included in the series is ''Utopian Entrepreneur'' (2001) by [[Brenda Laurel]], designed by Denise Gonzales Crisp; ''Writing Machines'' (2002) by [[N. Katherine Hayles]], designed by [[Anne Burdick]]; ''Rhythm Science'' (2004) by Paul D. Miller aka [[DJ Spooky]] that Subliminal Kid, designed by COMA; and, ''Shaping Things'' (2005) by [[Bruce Sterling]], designed by [[Lorraine Wild]]. [[Lev Manovich]], the author of ''The Language of New Media'', lauded these 100 page "mind bombs" in the tradition of McLuhan and Fiore¹s ''The Medium is the Massage'' as a new operating system for the book.
His books include ''USER:InfoTechnoDemo'', ''Snap to Grid'', and ''The Digital Dialectic'',<ref>{{cite book| last= Lunenfeld| first= Peter| date= 1999| title= The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media
| url= http://monoskop.org/images/8/86/Lunenfeld_Peter_ed_The_Digital_Dialectic_New_Essays_on_New_Media.pdf| journal= The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media| location= Cambridge, Mass| publisher = MIT Press |access-date= 2015-07-06}}</ref> a collection of essays about digital technology by many well-known academics in the field, including the essay "The Medium is the Memory" by co-creator of the [[Voyager Company]]'s [[Expanded Books | Expanded Books Project]] [[Florian Brody]].<ref name="mediummemory">{{cite journal|last= Brody| first= Florian| date= 1999| title= The Medium is the Memory| url= http://monoskop.org/images/8/86/Lunenfeld_Peter_ed_The_Digital_Dialectic_New_Essays_on_New_Media.pdf| journal= The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media| location= Cambridge, Mass| publisher = MIT Press|pages= 130–160|access-date= 2015-06-29}}</ref><ref name="themagazine">{{cite journal|last= Cohen| first= Michael|date= 2013-12-19|title= Scotched: Fair thoughts and happy hours did not attend upon an early enhanced-book adaptation of Macbeth| url= http://the-magazine.org/32/scotched| journal= The Magazine| location= Seattle, WA |publisher = Aperiodical LLC |issue= 32|access-date= 2015-06-07}}</ref> Lunenfeld is the editorial director of the highly designed Mediawork pamphlet series for the MIT Press. The series features commissioned writings that weave life stories into "theoretical and critical praxis."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gonzales Crisp|first=Denise|title=Discover This! Designers and Alternative Critical Writing|journal=Design and Culture|publication-date=2009|volume=1|issue=1}}</ref> These award-winning "theoretical fetish objects" cover the intersections of art, design, technology, and
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market culture. Included in the series is ''Utopian Entrepreneur'' (2001) by [[Brenda Laurel]], designed by Denise Gonzales Crisp; ''Writing Machines'' (2002) by [[N. Katherine Hayles]], designed by [[Anne Burdick]]; ''Rhythm Science'' (2004) by Paul D. Miller aka [[DJ Spooky]] that Subliminal Kid, designed by COMA; and, ''Shaping Things'' (2005) by [[Bruce Sterling]], designed by [[Lorraine Wild]]. [[Lev Manovich]], the author of ''The Language of New Media'', lauded these 100 page "mind bombs" in the tradition of McLuhan and Fiore¹s ''The Medium is the Massage'' as a new operating system for the book.


Lunenfeld has a B.A. in history from [[Columbia University]], an MA in Media Studies from [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|SUNY Buffalo]], and a Ph.D. from [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] in Film & Television. He worked as the Applications Coordinator at the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] winning hardware and software company Lyon Lamb. He has been awarded support from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], the Hirsch Foundation, the Plitt Foundation, and the [[Columbia University]] Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in Paris. He has given lectures and led workshops at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, the [[MIT Media Lab]], the Royal College of Art, the University of Stockholm, the Interaction Institute Ivrea in Italy, the Getty Research Center, UC Berkeley, UCSB, UCLA, UCSD, USC and [[CalArts]]. He lives in [[Los Angeles]], California.
Lunenfeld has a B.A. in history from [[Columbia University]], an MA in Media Studies from [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|SUNY Buffalo]], and a Ph.D. from [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] in Film & Television. He worked as the Applications Coordinator at the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] winning hardware and software company Lyon Lamb. Honors and fellowships include a 2016 Internal Award for Art Criticism (from the IAAC), the Dorothy Lee Prize for Scholarship in 2013 (from the MEA), and fellowships at the Huntington Library (Dana and David Dornsife Fellow, 2015-16), USC Annenberg Center (Vectors, 2007), and the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in Paris (2005). He lives in [[Los Angeles]], California.


==Related books==
==Related books==
* Peter Lunenfeld: ''City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined'', Viking, August 2020 {{ISBN|978-0-525-56193-4}}
* Peter Lunenfeld, Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp: ''Digital Humanities'', MIT Press, November 2012 {{ISBN|978-0-262-31211-0}}
* Peter Lunenfeld: ''The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine'', MIT Press, April 2011 {{ISBN|978-0-262-01547-9}}
* Peter Lunenfeld: ''The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine'', MIT Press, April 2011 {{ISBN|978-0-262-01547-9}}
* Peter Lunenfeld: ''USER:InfoTechnoDemo'', MIT Press (2005), visuals [[miekegerritzen.com|Mieke Gerritzen]] {{ISBN|0-262-62198-3}}
* Peter Lunenfeld: ''USER:InfoTechnoDemo'', MIT Press (2005), visuals [[miekegerritzen.com|Mieke Gerritzen]] {{ISBN|0-262-62198-3}}
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.peterlunenfeld.com Official website]
*[http://www.peterlunenfeld.com Official website]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080820145914/http://mitpress.mit.edu/mediawork/ Mediawork Project homepage]
*[http://www.design.ucla.edu UCLA Design Media Arts Department homepage]
*[http://www.design.ucla.edu UCLA Design Media Arts Department homepage]
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Peter Lunenfeld

Peter Lunenfeld (born 1962, in New York City) is a critic and theorist of digital media, digital humanities, and urban humanities. He is a professor and the Vice Chair of the Design Media Arts department at UCLA, director of the Institute for Technology and Aesthetics (ITA), and founder of mediawork: The Southern California New Media Group.[1]

Lunenfeld is a leading figure in digital aesthetic theory, set on establishing philosophical quandaries regarding digital technology and its role in art, design and culture. Works like Snap to Grid and The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading incorporate traditional and continental theories of art to account for digital media. His work revolves around the discourses of technology, aesthetics, and cultural theory, establishing the complexity of digital aesthetics while simultaneously categorizing it.[1]

His books include City at the Edge of Forever, Digital_Humanities, USER, Snap to Grid, and The Digital Dialectic. Lunenfeld is the editorial director of the highly designed Mediawork pamphlet series for the MIT Press. The series features commissioned writings that weave life stories into "theoretical and critical praxis."[2] These award-winning "theoretical fetish objects" cover the intersections of art, design, technology, and market culture. Included in the series is Utopian Entrepreneur (2001) by Brenda Laurel, designed by Denise Gonzales Crisp; Writing Machines (2002) by N. Katherine Hayles, designed by Anne Burdick; Rhythm Science (2004) by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, designed by COMA; and, Shaping Things (2005) by Bruce Sterling, designed by Lorraine Wild. Lev Manovich, the author of The Language of New Media, lauded these 100 page "mind bombs" in the tradition of McLuhan and Fiore¹s The Medium is the Massage as a new operating system for the book.

Lunenfeld has a B.A. in history from Columbia University, an MA in Media Studies from SUNY Buffalo, and a Ph.D. from UCLA in Film & Television. He worked as the Applications Coordinator at the Academy Award winning hardware and software company Lyon Lamb. Honors and fellowships include a 2016 Internal Award for Art Criticism (from the IAAC), the Dorothy Lee Prize for Scholarship in 2013 (from the MEA), and fellowships at the Huntington Library (Dana and David Dornsife Fellow, 2015-16), USC Annenberg Center (Vectors, 2007), and the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in Paris (2005). He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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  • Peter Lunenfeld: City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined, Viking, August 2020 ISBN 978-0-525-56193-4
  • Peter Lunenfeld, Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp: Digital Humanities, MIT Press, November 2012 ISBN 978-0-262-31211-0
  • Peter Lunenfeld: The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine, MIT Press, April 2011 ISBN 978-0-262-01547-9
  • Peter Lunenfeld: USER:InfoTechnoDemo, MIT Press (2005), visuals Mieke Gerritzen ISBN 0-262-62198-3
  • Peter Lunenfeld: Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media and Cultures, MIT Press (2000) ISBN 0-262-62158-4
  • Peter Lunenfeld, ed.: The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, MIT Press (1999) ISBN 0-262-62137-1

References

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  1. ^ a b "Editorial Director Peter Lunenfeld". Mediawork Pamphlets. Retrieved 2015-07-06.
  2. ^ Gonzales Crisp, Denise (2009). "Discover This! Designers and Alternative Critical Writing". Design and Culture. 1 (1).
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