Michael Mandiberg

ASPECT v. 15, “Influence and Reference” includes video documentation of AfterSherrieLevine.com. The original project is from 2001, the video documentation was made in 2009. As ASPECT is a DVD publication they use the audio commentary tracks for a critical analysis of the works. I was very fortunate: Marita Sturken gave an awesome audio commentary.

This is a reproduction of the original 1703 Right of Copy. Queen Anne granted Oxford the right to publish Clarendon’s History for 14 Years.
Yes. 14 Years. Just think of all the work between 1924 and… 1986 that would be part of the Public Domain
via http://blog.mises.org/12151/the-right-of-copy-a-courtly-privilege

Academic institutions clinging to print media as arbiter of tenure, disregarding electronic forms are… “Dead-Tree-Huggers”
I tweeted this just now, but I feel like it deserves a bit more context. This came out of an email with Adam Hyde (his coinage!) trying to convince him or one of our collaborators in Berlin to find and scan [...]

S.A.S.E.
Marijke Appelman, Paul Branca, Jennifer Cane, Travis Hallenbeck and Guthrie Lonergan, Michael Mandiberg, Jennifer Delos Reyes, Gabriel Saloman, Suzie Silver, Lia Trinka-Browner, Jess Wilcox
S.A.S.E. uses the idea of the self addressed stamped envelope as its foundation (a method of distribution within the postal mail system that is always initiated by the one who wants to [...]

Drawing Contemporaries at Eyebeam

I have been trying to find a way to distribute my CC licensed master files, from little Illustrator files, master video files, to the 500MB InDesign file for the Digital Foundations book (http://www.digital-foundations.net). This is an experiment. Because these are all graphics and master files, i am going to put them in “Other.” We’ll see [...]

Tiananmen Square: Do you exclusively paint Thomas Kinkade paintings?
June 3, 2009
Four years ago, in preparation for a research visit to Shenzhen’s Dafen Painting Village, I requested that roughly a dozen Chinese painters paint a copy of the image of the man standing in front of the tanks during the Tiananmen Square protest on June 4, [...]

My HOWTO negotiate a CC license contract with a publisher was translated into Chinese. I love CC.
UPDATE: The translation is now on the CC Taiwan site. Awesome.

Marisa pointed out that the name of http://www.callsandopps.com is so familiar… Starting in 2001 I edited of The Calls and Opps List, www.TheRedProject.com/calls. It was a newsletter of Calls for Work, and artist opportunities. From 2001-2005 it was an email newsletter sent to 5000+ subscribers. In 2005 I closed it, looking [...]