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The Social Media Reader reviewed in Neural

January 29, 2013

Alessandro Ludovico reviewed The Social Media Reader for Neural, calling the book: a well-curated anthology which portrays social networks as they are: as an incredibly popular phenomenon of contemporary communication whose rapid success in some respects epitomizes the precariousness and limitless of online media in general. Social media are nowadays considered absolutely essential for any online [...]

TO LIFE Eco Art In Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet

January 24, 2013

I am honored to be included in Linda Weintraub’s new book TO LIFE! Eco Art In Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet (UC Press). The book has chapters on each of the artists/collectives; her chapter on my work explores Oil Standard and The Real Costs. Weintraub has created an entire website that includes useful teaching guides [...]

Edward A. Shanken on Investigatory Art

January 23, 2013

Edward A. Shanken has published a new essay entitled “Investigatory art: Real-time systems and network culture” in which he links circa 1970 work of Hans Haacke and Jack Burnham to new media work from the mid 90′s to the present. He has picked some of my favorite pieces by Heath Bunting, Josh On, UBERMORGEN et [...]

The Social Media Reader Creative Commons PDF on Archive.org

December 18, 2012

The Social Media Reader is now available as a Creative Commons licensed PDF on Archive.org. The book is CC BY-SA-NC licensed; all but one of the chapters are CC BY-SA or CC BY. Archive.org also hosts an EPUB and Kindle version as well. … The Social Media Reader (ed. Michael Mandiberg) is a collection of [...]

Digital Publishing Today panel at CUNY Grad Center

November 9, 2012

Panel: Ashley Dawson, Matthew K. Gold, Michael Mandiberg, Tavia Nyong’o What are the radical possibilities of open access publishing? This panel will bring together a number of scholars who have published online recently to consider how university presses are either facilitating or impeding efforts by academics to explore new forms of cultural production and media [...]

Fake It! (Limited Edition) at Fabrica de Pensule

October 17, 2012

AfterSherrieLevine is included in Fake It! (Limited Edition), an exhibition at Fabrica de Pensule in Cluj Romania, curated by Horea Avram. They are including a computer with a printing and framing station, so you can print out, sign and frame your own image from the site. From Avram’s curatorial statement: The “sources” to which the [...]

Art, Environment, Action! – Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons

October 16, 2012

As part of Art, Environment, Action! at Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, I will be giving a 3 day workshop on making visual contributions to Wikipedia. Building on the work of Wikipedia Illustrated and others, the goal will be to use visual language to explain complex concepts without over simplifying them. This could [...]

New York Arts Practicum – midpoint update

July 16, 2012

The New York Arts Practicum is midway through, and going really well. The 10 participants are having productive conversations with artists and curators, working in their mentors’ studios, and making work for critique. We are meeting Tuesday evenings for Critique/Seminar, and Friday all day for site visits. The goal of the program is for the [...]