Michael Mandiberg
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Michael Mandiberg is an artist, programmer, designer and educator. His work spans web applications about environmental impact, to conceptual performances about subjectivity, to laser cut lampshades for compact fluorescent lightbulbs
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Michael Mandiberg is well known for his year long performances and his e-commerce website Shop Mandiberg, that marketed and sold his possessions, making copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, in which had hi-resolution copies of Walker Evans
photos rephotographed by Sherrie Levine
, and for creating Firefox plugins in which points out the real environmental costs of a global economy (TheRealCosts.com)
His works have been exhibited at venues. Some venues include the [New Museum for Contemporary Art] located in New York City, Transmediale Festival in Berlin, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and [Ars Electronica Center] located in Linz. His 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.
and raised in Portland, Oregon
. He attended Brown University
and received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the California Institute for the Arts. He is an assistant professor in Media Culture at the College of Staten Island
and a Fellow at Eyebeam
Center for Art and Technology in New York City
. He is also a founding member of Eyebeam
’s Sustainability Research Group. Some of his art work, such as "How Much It Costs Us," focuses on the idea of Intervention Art, wherein the goal is to cause viewers/users to be more aware of environmental implications of some seemingly harmless actions; for example, driving from point A to point B. In "How Much It Costs Us," the goal is to show how much gas it takes to drive from one place to another and in doing so, one might think twice before taking a road-trip in order to reduce their carbon footprint.
Mandiberg is the author of "Digital Foundations," a book which teaches the Bauhaus
Basic Course through design software. He is a writer for Digital Foundations and Anti-Advertising Agency blogs. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn.
Compact fluorescent lamp
A compact fluorescent lamp , also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light, and compact fluorescent tube, is a fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent lamp; some types fit into light fixtures formerly used for incandescent lamps...
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Michael Mandiberg is well known for his year long performances and his e-commerce website Shop Mandiberg, that marketed and sold his possessions, making copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, in which had hi-resolution copies of Walker Evans
Walker Evans
Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
photos rephotographed by Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and appropriation artist.-Education:Levine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. In 1973, she earned an M.F.A. from the same institution....
, and for creating Firefox plugins in which points out the real environmental costs of a global economy (TheRealCosts.com)
His works have been exhibited at venues. Some venues include the [New Museum for Contemporary Art] located in New York City, Transmediale Festival in Berlin, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and [Ars Electronica Center] located in Linz. His 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.
Background
Mandiberg was born in Detroit, MichiganDetroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
and raised in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
. He attended Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
and received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the California Institute for the Arts. He is an assistant professor in Media Culture at the College of Staten Island
College of Staten Island
The College of Staten Island is a four-year, senior college of and is one of the 11 senior colleges in the City University of New York. Programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional studies lead to bachelor's and associate's degrees. The master's degree is awarded in 13 professional...
and a Fellow at Eyebeam
Eyebeam Atelier
Eyebeam, is a not-for-profit arts and technology center in New York City. Their stated purpose is to promote the creative use of new technologies by funding artwork, education and exhibitions. The founders were John S. Johnson III, David S. Johnson and Roderic R...
Center for Art and Technology in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. He is also a founding member of Eyebeam
Eyebeam
Eyebeam may refer to:*I-beam, a beam with an I- or H-shaped cross-section* Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, a not-for-profit arts and technology center based in New York City* Eyebeam , a daily comic strip written and illustrated by Sam Hurt...
’s Sustainability Research Group. Some of his art work, such as "How Much It Costs Us," focuses on the idea of Intervention Art, wherein the goal is to cause viewers/users to be more aware of environmental implications of some seemingly harmless actions; for example, driving from point A to point B. In "How Much It Costs Us," the goal is to show how much gas it takes to drive from one place to another and in doing so, one might think twice before taking a road-trip in order to reduce their carbon footprint.
Mandiberg is the author of "Digital Foundations," a book which teaches the Bauhaus
Bauhaus
', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...
Basic Course through design software. He is a writer for Digital Foundations and Anti-Advertising Agency blogs. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn.
Notable works
- Shop Mandiberg was an Internet artInternet artInternet art is a form of digital artwork distributed via the Internet. This form of art has circumvented the traditional dominance of the gallery and museum system, delivering aesthetic experiences via the Internet. In many cases, the viewer is drawn into some kind of interaction with the work...
piece from 2001 in which Michael Mandiberg offered every last thing he owned for sale on the Shop Mandiberg site. From clothing to half used tubes of toothpaste. By the time the store was closed he had sold over 100 items. - The Essential Guide to Performing part of The Exchange Program, a project initiated by Michael Mandiberg. A group of 10 people switch lives with each other, with the hopes of effectively passing as the other person. This guide outlines social behavior, interactions, beliefs, practices and a brief history.
- AfterSherrieLevine.com and AfterWalkerEvans.com which Mandiberg scanned and posted online the photos that Sherrie LevineSherrie LevineSherrie Levine is an American photographer and appropriation artist.-Education:Levine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. In 1973, she earned an M.F.A. from the same institution....
rephotographed of Walker EvansWalker EvansWalker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
. 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. Album is even available as an iPhone app. - Oil Standard - is a Firefox plugin that replaces prices on e-commerce websites with the equivalent cost in barrels of crude oil.
- The Real Costs - is a Firefox plugin that inserts carbon emissions data into travel websites. He is currently working on a version that will work with car rentals, car directions and shipping websites.
- How Much It Costs Us is an internet website created in 2009 done by web scrapingWeb scrapingWeb scraping is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites...
, which allows users to calculate the financial and carbon cost of driving, depending on what kind of gas you buy, what car you drive and your destination. The output of carbon is shown in pounds. - The Bright Bike is a website describing Michael Mandiberg's latest project, Bright Bike. A Do-It-Yourself project, adding retroreflective vinyl coating to make bicycles visible to other vehicles.
- Bright Idea Shade is a project, which makes the use of CFL bulb better by creating shade for the bare bulb using heat resistant photo diffuser material. Mandiberg has been working on this project with fellow research group member Steve Lambert.
- He is working with FLOSSmanuals to port the book to GIMPGIMPGIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
, Inkscape, et all, and from there to translate the Flossified book into French, Spanish, Persian, and Brazilian Portuguese. - Bush Poll, BushPoll.com- Found 153 people in the US named George Bush and conducted a survey on how the former president was doing.
- The Exchange Program- Eight people attempt to switch lives with each other for ten days. Using each others ATM cards, names, friends and personality traits, they attempt to be each other.
Publications
- Co-author (with xtine burrough) of the textbook Digital Foundations: An Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite.
External links
- Mandiberg.com Official website
- Wired Magazine article on Mandiberg's IN Network piece from April 21, 2005.
- http://www.vimeo.com/6946442 - video of studio visit with Michael Mandiberg October 2009