St. Pauls Cathedral, London 2003

Cinema As A Cultural Interface
During the 1990s, the cultural role of a digital computer has changed from a tool to a medium. In the beginning of the decade, a computer was still largely thought of as a simulation of a typewriter, a paintbrush or a drafting ruler - in other words, as a tool used to produce cultural content which, once created, will be stored and distributed in its appropriate media: printed page, film, photographic print, electronic recording. By the end of the decade, the computer's public image has begun to shift to one of a universal machine, used not only to author, but also to store, distribute and access all media. All culture, past and present, is beginning to be filtered through a computer, with its particular human-computer interface.
Lev Manovich

The Work of Theory In The Age of Digital Transformation
MIT Interactive Cinema Group. Headed by Glorianna Davenport

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