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Michael Mandiberg is known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com. His current projects include the co-authored groundbreaking Creative Commons licensed textbook Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design that teaches Bauhaus visual principles through design software, HowMuchItCosts.us, a car direction site that incorporates the financial and carbon cost of driving, and Bright Bike, a retro-reflective bicycle treehugger.com praised as “obnoxiously bright.” He is a Senior Fellow at Eyebeam, and an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. His work lives at Mandiberg.com.
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Michael Mandiberg is known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg (http://Mandiberg.com/shop), making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com (http://AfterSherrieLevine.com), and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com (http://TheRealCosts.com). His current projects include the co-authored groundbreaking Creative Commons licensed textbook Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design (http://Digital-Foundations.net) that teaches Bauhaus visual principles through design software, HowMuchItCosts.us (http://HowMuchItCosts.us), a car direction site that incorporates the financial and carbon cost of driving, and Bright Bike (http://theredproject.com/brightbike), a retro-reflective bicycle treehugger.com praised as “obnoxiously bright.” He is a Senior Fellow at Eyebeam, and an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. His work lives at Mandiberg.com.
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Michael Mandiberg is known for selling all of his possessions online on <a href=”http://mandiberg.com/shop”>Shop Mandiberg,</a> making perfect copies of copies on <a href=”http://AfterSherrieLevine.com”>AfterSherrieLevine.com</a>, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on <a href=”http://TheRealCosts.com”>TheRealCosts.com</a> . His current projects include the co-authored groundbreaking Creative Commons licensed textbook <a href=”http://digital-foundations.net/”>Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design</a> that teaches Bauhaus visual principles through design software, <a href=”http://HowMuchItCosts.us”>HowMuchItCosts.us</a>, a car direction site that incorporates the financial and carbon cost of driving, and <a href=”http://theredproject.com/brightbike”>Bright Bike</a>, a retro-reflective bicycle treehugger.com praised as “obnoxiously bright.” He is a Senior Fellow at <a href=”http://Eyebeam.org”>Eyebeam</a>, and an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. His work lives at <a href=”http://Mandiberg.com”>Mandiberg.com</a>
FULL BIO:
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 Flourescent Lightbulbs.
He is the co-author (with xtine burrough) of the groundbreaking textbook Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (AIGA Design Press/New Riders) that teaches Bauhaus formal principles through design software. The book incorporates extensive historical examples from the public domain, and contemporary Creative Commons licensed work. Design *guru* Ellen Lupton called the book “engaging” and “ambitious,” Mark Tribe has called the book “groundbreaking,” and his peers who see it call it “the book we’ve all be waiting for.”
He is working with FLOSSmanuals to port the book to GIMP, Inkscape, et all, and from there to translate the Flossified book into French, Spanish, Farsi, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Recent projects include HowMuchItCosts.us, a car direction site that incorporates the financial and carbon cost of driving, The Real Costs, a browser plug-in that inserts carbon footprints into airplane travel & car directions websites, and Oil Standard, a browser plug-in that converts all prices on any web page in their equivalent value in barrels of oil.
He is well known for his year long performance and e-commerce website Shop Mandiberg, which marketed and sold all of his possessions, and for AfterSherrieLevine.com, where he made available hi-resolution scans of the Walker Evans images rephotographed by Sherrie Levine, complete with certificates of authenticity to be signed by the user themselves. The Essential Guide to Performing Michael Mandiberg, an extensive DIY guide prepared for a life art performance was included by the Electronic Literature Organization as one of the foundational works of electronic literature to be included in the Library of Congress. From 2001 to 2006 he edited the Calls and Opps list, the most popular email list for calls for work and artist opportunities.
He is a founding member of Eyebeam’s Sustainability Research Group. Through this forum he has spearheaded collaborations such as the Eco-Vis Design Challenge, and the critically praised Feedback exhibition. Working with fellow research group member Steve Lambert, he has created the Bright Idea Shade, a Creative Commons licensed flat-pack laser cut lampshade for bare CFL lightbulbs.
His work has been exhibited at such venues as the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York City, Ars Electronica Center in Linz, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Transmediale Festival, Berlin. His work has been featured in such books as Tribe and Jana’s New Media Art, Blais and Ippolito’s At the Edge of Art, and Greene’s Internet Art. He is a recipient of grants and residencies from Eyebeam, Rhizome.org, and Turbulence.org/Jerome Foundation.
An Assistant Professor of Design and Digital Media at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, he is currently an Senior Fellow at Eyebeam. Raised in Portland, Oregon, he lives in and rides his bicycle around Brooklyn.
