Michael Mandiberg
Michael Mandiberg (born December 22, 1977) is an American artist, programmer, designer and educator. Mandiberg's works have been exhibited at venues including the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York City; the transmediale festival, Berlin; the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany; and the Ars Electronica Center located in Linz, Austria. Mandiberg's work has also been featured in books like Tribe and Jana's New Media Art, Greene's Internet Art, and Blais and Ippolito's At the Edge of Art.
Michael Mandiberg

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- Name
- Michael Mandiberg
- Born
- 22 December 1977
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- Field
- Internet art
- Awards
- Turbulence Project Award, Rhizome Commission, 2007–08 Eyebeam Fellowship, 2008–09 Eyebeam Senior Fellow
- Education
- Brown University Rhode Island School of Design California Institute of the Arts
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- artist · programmer · researcher · painter · docent
- Known for
- Print Wikipedia
- Languages
- English
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Michael Mandiberg (born December 22, 1977) is an American artist, programmer, designer and educator. Mandiberg's works have been exhibited at venues including the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York City; the transmediale festival, Berlin; the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany; and the Ars Electronica Center located in Linz, Austria. Mandiberg's work has also been featured in books like Tribe and Jana's New Media Art, Greene's Internet Art, and Blais and Ippolito's At the Edge of Art.
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Michael Mandiberg (born 1977) is an American artist, docent and painter, among other activities. The artist was born in Detroit.
Michael Mandiberg studied at Brown University and California Institute of the Arts. The artist lived in Brooklyn and Detroit. Michael Mandiberg is active in internet art.
Works include Print Wikipedia. Languages used include English. Works by the artist are held at Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Biography
Mandiberg has been written about in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Berliner Zeitung, and Wired.
Michael Mandiberg studied at California Institute of the Arts and Brown University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is internet art. Residence is recorded at Detroit and Brooklyn. Works named in the authority record are Print Wikipedia. Work by Michael Mandiberg is recorded in the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art.

Artist Michael Mandiberg and his assistant Jonathan Kiritharan of the " Print Wikipedia " project, at the "From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!" exhibition, on the day before its opening at Denny Gallery, New York City, USA. Derivative work under CC BY-SA 3.0, based on work by Wikipedia contributors and Michael Mandiberg (User:Theredproject)
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Art + Feminism co-founders Michael Mandiberg, Sian Evans, and Jackie Mabey.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Michael Mandiberg • Born — 22 December 1977 • Birthplace — Detroit, Michigan, U.S. • Field — Internet art • Works — Shop Mandiberg, The Red Project, Oil Standard, The Real Costs • Awards — Turbulence Project Award, Rhizome Commission, 2007–08 Eyebeam Fellowship, 2008–09 Eyebeam Senior Fellow • Education — Brown University Rhode Island School of Design California Institute of the Arts
Career
Career
• Illustration — thumbtime=00:08 Mandiberg is working as professor in the College of Staten Island on media culture. and a Fellow at Eyebeam in New York City. Mandiberg is the writer of Digital Foundations, a book which teaches the Bauhaus Basic Course through design software. This work received praise from creatives such as Ellen Lupton and C. E. B. Reas. Mandiberg is a writer for Digital Foundations and Anti-Advertising Agency blogs. Mandiberg founded New York Arts Practicum, "a summer arts institute where participants experientially learn to bridge their lives as art students into lives as artists in the world." Mandiberg also convened the event Experiments in Extra-Institutional Education at City University of New York on April 11, 2013, which led to a special issue of the academic journal Social Text and a yearlong seminar on similar topics co-organized with Carla Herrera-Prats, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, and Jennifer Stoops.
Notable works
Notable works
• Illustration — Print Wikipedia • Shop Mandiberg was an Internet art piece from 2001 in which Michael Mandiberg offered every last thing they owned for sale on the Shop Mandiberg site, from clothing to half-used tubes of toothpaste. By the time the store was closed, Mandiberg had sold over 100 items. • Mandiberg created two websites, AfterSherrieLevine.com and AfterWalkerEvans.com, which host scans of photographs by Walker Evans as rephotographed by Sherrie Levine. A self-described "one-liner art prank" given more recursion by placing the work online so it can be printed out, thus creating another reproduction. Another artist, Bujar Bala, downloaded scanned photos from AfterWalkerEvans.com and uploaded them on jalbum.net creating an online photo album named After Michael Mandiberg. Mandiberg lately continued the reproduction process by creating an Instagram After Michael Mandiberg account and published filtered and reproduced images on Instagram. • Oil Standard – commissioned by Turbulence.org is a Firefox plugin that replaces prices on e-commerce websites with the equivalent cost in barrels of crude oil. • Print Wikipedia – A visualization of how big Wikipedia is. Includes "spine wallpaper" of 2000 out of 7500 volumes and selected volumes printed out. Entire pdfs for Wikipedia volumes uploaded and available for printing.
Life and career
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1977
Michael Mandiberg was born on 22 December 1977.
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Detroit and Brooklyn
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Detroit.
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Publications
• Michael Mandiberg (Editor), The Social Media Reader, New York University Press 2012 • xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg, Digital Foundations: An Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite, New Riders/AIGA Design Press 2008
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6832483: Michael Mandiberg
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reference work
- “Michael Mandiberg”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Michael Mandiberg – transmediale.
- 2.Netzarbeiten des IMKP.
- 3.Pacific Northwest College of Art.
- 4.College of Staten Island – Faculty Profiles.
- 5.Digital Foundations.
- 6.New York Arts Practicum.
- 7.Center for the Humanities website.
- 8.Educational OutliersSocial Text.
- 9.Extra-Institutional Education. The Center for the Humanities.
- 10.Von Tilman Baumgärtel "Der Ausverkauf des Selbsts" Berliner Zeitung, 05 February 2001
- 11.Suzanne Muchnic "A cut-and-paste festival"Los Angeles Times, 26 October 2003
- 12.AfterWalkerEvans.com.
- 13.@aftermichaelmandiberg • Instagram photos and videos.
- 14.Turbulence Commission: "Oil Standard" by Michael Mandiberg - www.furtherfield.org.
- 15.Dan Mitchell Google Finance: A Portal Play?, The New York Times, March 26, 2006
- 16.Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves. The New York Times. 17 June 2015.
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