Michael Mandiberg
1977– · American artist, programmer, designer and educator
Michael Mandiberg (American, born 1977) is an artist, programmer, designer and educator whose work brings together art, technology and digital culture. His projects have been shown at venues such as the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York, the transmediale festival in Berlin, the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe and the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, and he has been discussed in books on internet art and on art at the edges of the institution.
Mandiberg teaches media culture as a professor at the College of Staten Island and is a Fellow at Eyebeam in New York. With xtine burrough he co-wrote Digital Foundations, a book that teaches the Bauhaus Basic Course through design software and drew praise from designers such as Ellen Lupton. He also founded New York Arts Practicum, a summer institute that helps art students make the transition into working as artists, and edited The Social Media Reader.
His best-known piece is Shop Mandiberg (2001), an internet artwork in which he offered almost everything he owned for sale, from clothing to half-used tubes of toothpaste, selling more than 100 items before the store closed. With AfterSherrieLevine.com and AfterWalkerEvans.com he presented scans of Walker Evans photographs as rephotographed by Sherrie Levine, turning copying into a further reproduction. Other works include Oil Standard, a Firefox plugin that converts e-commerce prices into barrels of crude oil, and Print Wikipedia, a visualization of the encyclopedia's size.