Michael Mandiberg

Michael Mandiberg
Born December 22nd, 1977
Detroit, Michigan
Nationality American
Field Internet art
Training Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, MFA California Institute of the Arts
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

Michael Mandiberg (born 1977) 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.

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)[1]

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.

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Background

Mandiberg was born in Detroit, Michigan 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[2] 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.

Notable works

Publications

References

  1. ^ Fellowship profile at Eyebeam.org
  2. ^ Faculty profile at College of Staten Island website
  3. ^ Text intro from AfterWalkerEvans.com
  4. ^ (http://bujarbala.jalbum.net After Michael Mandiberg)

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