Michael Mandiberg
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BIO
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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RECENT PROJECTS
Bright Bike
VIDEO
Bright Bike is a Retroreflective Vinyl coated bike. It is like coating your bike with a big sticker that turns ultra-brite in headlights. The design is licensed CC-BY, and DIY kits are currently being produced by Beacon Graphics.
Digital Foundations
A co-authored design text book (with xtine burrough) that takes the Bauhaus basic course and teaches those exercises on the computer. The first book to bring historical example and visual principles to software education. Also the first creative commons licensed design textbook. Translated to FLOSS with FLOSSmanuals.net, and currently under translation to Spanish.
HowMuchItCosts.us
VIDEO (coming soon)
A Google API mashup that calculates the cost of travel in dollars and carbon. It is based off of the MPG for your car, and the cost of gas in your location.
Burned Books
VIDEO (coming soon)
A series of altered encyclopedias, dictionaries, and newspapers, with words incised into them with a laser cutter, highlight the loosing battle of printmedia at a time of rapid online delivery and the never ending newness of information. For example, with Old News, a fresh copy of The New York Times with the words “old news” cut onto it will be delivered to the gallery daily; a stack will accumulate over the course of the exhibition.
