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Lev Manovich

Abstract

Leo Manovich explores the development of the simulation project called, "The Freud-Lissitzky Navigator". Manovich first introduces Sigmund Feud during the year 1928, where Freud met with the Russian designer El Lissitzky to talk about psychoanalysis and modern architecture. During their discussion, they created the Interpretation of Dreams, Freud’s model of the concious/unconciousness. Around this time, Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein wanted to create a film adaptation of Marx’s Capital, which later became his idea of “displacing” Capital in the Interpretation of Dreams. Essentially, Freud and Lissitzky was convinced to commission Eisenstein to creat a walkthrough of the model of a house. While visiting Bauhaus during the year 1929, he talks to Hungarian artist and Bauhaus professor Moholy-Nagy to see if his students could make a model of the house that Eisenstein could film. Eisenstein also meets young American engineer Edwin Link who talks about his first flight simulator, which has a simulation of the cockpits and controls. Except, there are no visuals in Link’s simulation. However, even though Eisenstein was able to get to America and connect with Disney through Link’s connections, he was unable to realize his dream of the Freud-Lissitzky navigator. After the first computer game Spacewar was written by MIT Steve Russel in 1961 and many other accomplishments, the Freud-Lissitzky Navigator became a tool than many used for their own projects. Currently, the Freud-Lissitzky Navigator is being reconstructed from an early version by many different individuals and groups.

Preservation Process

Archived from http://switch.sjsu.edu/archive/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php%3Fartc=118.html. Documentation of the preservation processes used for this collection is available at https://github.com/NickSzydlowski/switch. Metadata for this item was created and augmented by Winnie Liang, Spring 2022, ART 104.

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