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 [...]

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 [...]

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

This is old news that slipped through the cracks, but No Longer Empty has been reviewd in Flash Art, the Wall Street Journal, Metro New York, and Culturemob.

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 [...]

Digital Foundations has been given a glowing review on The Tech Static and has appeared on Google Books
My plugins got a historical shout out in Nicholas Knouf’s statement about his new plugin.
The Graffit Fail Video is making the rounds.  Wooster Collective blogged it, and it has dispersed from there.  My favorite is this post by [...]

I know, I should write these more often, so there is less to digest in each one. Much activity of late:
1. Permanent State of Emergency
2. New Videos
3. Shows and talks
4. OMG I’m Twittering: http://twitter.com/mandiberg
5. Histoires à l’ère numérique
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1. Permanent State of Emergency

April 7 – 28: Eyebeam’s new window gallery in a Permanent State of [...]

O’Reilly Radar and Boing Boing picked up on the HOWTO CC post, which echoed through the blogs.  Some of of the louder echos are: Robin Good’s reposting, which includes ironic stock photographs (something I’ve been meaning to do!)

Anyone who has followed this blog obviously knows that I am still working at Eyebeam, which means I was awarded a Senior Fellowship.  It started some time ago, but Eyebeam is making a celebration out of it for the Senior Fellows and the incoming Residents.
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Eyebeam awards more than $175,000 in stipends to 10 artists working [...]

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