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,

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festival,

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; the

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(ZKM) in

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; and the

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located in

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. 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''. Mandiberg has been written about in ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Career

Mandiberg is a professor of Media Culture at the

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and a Fellow at Eyebeam in

. Mandiberg is the author of ''Digital Foundations'', a book which teaches the

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Basic Course through design software. This work received praise from creatives such as

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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

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on April 11, 2013, which led to a special issue of the academic journal

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and a yearlong seminar on similar topics co-organized with Carla Herrera-Prats, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, and Jennifer Stoops.

Notable works

* Shop Mandiberg was an

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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

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as rephotographed by

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. 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 Print Wikipedia is an art project by Michael Mandiberg that included a printed edition of 106 volumes of the English Wikipedia as it existed on April 7, 2015. The bound paper volumes, each running 700 pages, represented a fraction of the 7,47 ...

– 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.

Publications

* Michael Mandiberg (Editor), ''The Social Media Reader'',

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2012 * xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg, ''Digital Foundations: An Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite'', New Riders/AIGA Design Press 2008

References

External links

*
''Wired Magazine''
article on Mandiberg's IN Network piece from April 21, 2005.
Video of studio visit with Michael Mandiberg, October 2009
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Career

Notable works

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