Michael Mandiberg

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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 Eyebeam Fellowship

Michael Mandiberg (b. 1977) is an American artist who is best known for creating Firefox plugins dealing with economic and environmental issues.

Contents 1 Background 2 Notable Works 3 External Links 4 References

[edit] 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^[1] and a 2007-2008 Research and Development Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City.

[edit] Notable Works

• Shop Mandiberg was an Internet art 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.

• AfterSherrieLevine.com and AfterWalkerEvans.com which Mandiberg scanned and posted online the photos that Sherrie Levine rephotographed of Walker Evans. A self described "one-liner art prank"^[2] given more depth by placing the work online so it can be printed out, thus creating another reproduction.

• 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.

[edit] External Links

• Mandiberg.com Official website
• The Essential Guide to Performing Michael Mandiberg - detailed instructions on being Michael Mandiberg, circa 2002.
• Video Interview of Michael Mandiberg explaining the Real Costs plugin for Eyebeam's Feedback Exhibition in 2008.
• Real Costs Video from Gothamist. May 2007.
• Wired Magazine article on Mandiberg's IN Network piece from April 21, 2005.

[edit] References

1. ^ Faculty profile at College of Staten Island website
2. ^ Text intro from AfterWalkerEvans.com