Michael Mandiberg

The German newspaper Taz.de has covered our Collaborative Futures booksprint. (English translation here) There has apparently been a lot of buzz about the book during Transmediale. I have received a lot of emails about it, mostly from people who think I am still there and want to pick up copies.
The US release will be March [...]

OMG LOL in The New Yorker’s 1000 Words. Posted by Macy Halford

James Wagner and Barry Hoggard came to see my installation last Monday. James has written up his impressions. James says:

Mandiberg goes where no laser cutter has ever gone before. Some of the work physically and dramatically distinguishes important newly-established contemporary technologies from their aging or defunct antecedents (many of which could once have been described [...]

The New York Times covers the New Amsterdam Bike Slam. We won hardcore. We proposed angle in parking, charging for street parking (!), bike ferries, multimodal transport, passive visibility through retroreflective coatings, secure centralized bike storage, a bike school bus (where a leader comes by and picks up all the kids on bikes and [...]

“Black Market Type and Print Shop”
06.09.09
Author: Micah Malone
05.07.09-06.27.09 Feldman Gallery at the Pacific Northwest College of Art
Creating fonts can be a touchy subject, raising issues of intellectual property—touchier still when the fonts in question sample hand-drawn lettering from well-known works of art. However, for the exhibition “Black Market Type and Print Shop,” font generation becomes [...]

No Longer Empty in the Wall Street Journal
Making Lemonade
Manon Slome, the former curator of the Chelsea Art Museum in Manhattan, has come up with a creative solution for the city’s mounting number of empty storefronts: turn them into sidewalk showrooms.
Her first “No Longer Empty” show opens Thursday in two formerly vacant storefronts at Hotel Chelsea [...]

(Ferry photos by Cynthia Chris)

I’m not sure whether to be honored or totally embarrassed, but the College of Staten Island marketing department decided I was photogenic enough to put my picture on an ad that is on the Staten Island Ferry

Yaelle Amir writes about “the future is not what it used to be” on ArtSlant:
Several of the artists have elected to shed light on the internet’s negative affects by way of nostalgia, as they highlight what it has ultimately replaced. This approach is most clearly exemplified by Kristin Lucas’ colorful wax sculptures of obsolete [...]

They kinda get a few things off, but its still pretty cool that Raimar Stange wrote about ASL.com in Flash Art in the context of appropriation
The American artist Michael Mandiberg also relies on the Internet as a medium, for example, the Internet Mandiberg Shop, which sells items owned by the artist. Through his site (Mandiberg.com) [...]