NORMAN KLEIN is the author of numerous books and essays on mass culture, media and urban studies, most notably, "The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory," and "Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon." His Web credits include: co-author of "The Freud-Lissitzky Navigator" (with Lev Manovich); co-author of "Cinematic Imaginaries of Los Angeles" (working title, with Stephen Mamber); and director of the Research Institute for Cultural Change (through Cal Arts, at www.impsresearch.com). His most recent show was "The Chase and the Labyrinth," at the Witte de With, in Rotterdam.  

 
Currently he is completing two new books: "The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects," and "Missing Los Angeles: A Guide to Ruins, Fragments and Obliterated Structures," as well as co-editing another anthology on LA, "City in Turmoil". He is a professor at the California Institute of the Arts, and adjunct at UCLA and Art Center College of Design.

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Lev Manovich's Bio

The Freud-Lissitzky Web Site