Michael Mandiberg, Curriculum Vitae
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Education

2003    MFA Photography and Media Art, California Institute of the Arts

2000    BA Visual Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Brown University

BA English, with Honors, Magna Cum Laude, Brown University

2000    Degree Project, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design

1998    Fine Arts Studies, San Francisco Art Institute

Teaching

2004 to Present

Assistant Professor, Dept of Media Culture, College of Staten Island/City Univ. of New York

2003-2004

Faculty, Dept of Multimedia, Art Institute of Orange County

Internet Art

2005

Oil Standard, http://turbulence.org/Works/oilstandard, March 15

Oil Standard is a Firefox plugin that convers all prices on a webpage into barrles of crude oil, exploring the moment when oil replace(d) gold as the standard by which we trade all goods and currencies.

2005

IN Network, with Julia Steinmetz, http://turbulence.org/Works/innetwork, March 1

In preparation for a long-distance relationship we switched our cell phone plan to the same network for free calls. Six months into the nine month separation, this project documents the extent to which our relationship was conducted through technology and how this technology changed our relationship.

2004

Bush Poll, BushPoll.com, October 19th

There are 153 persons named George Bush in the US phone directory; during the run up to the 2004 election I performed an opinion survey about their political opinions, their polarization over political issues, and their potential reflection of an American people divided over their Presidential representation.

2002

Critical Discourse, http://CriticalDiscourse.net, launched Dec 1st

Critical Discourse is a proposal for a hypothetical literary agency whose writers work was too experimental for the mainstream art and culture press. Unacceptable to the art press, the literary agency's archive would become a journal itself.

2002

The Essential Guide to Performing Michael Mandiberg http://turbulence.org/Works/guide

A do it yourself guide to performing the character known as Michael Mandiberg, with extensive diagrams, photographs, and descriptions; prepared for The Exchange Program.

2002

The Exchange Program, http://ExchangeProgram.org, launched April 20th

8 people switch places and lives for 10-15 days, using each other's names and ATM cards, hanging out with their friends and family, and attempting to live each others lives; I initiated, coordinated and participated in this project

2001

AfterWalkerEvans.com, http://www.AfterWalkerEvans.com, launched May 1st
AfterSherrieLevine.com, http://www.AfterSherrieLevine.com, launched May 1st

In 1979 Sherrie Levine photographed 22 of Walker Evan's depression era photographs as a comment on authorship, and reproduction. I made hi-resolution scans of these images, and made them available for download and printing, complete with certificates of authenticity to be signed by the user. Whereas a certificate of authenticity is conventionally used to preserve the economic value of an art object through a limited edition, here the certificate is used to create an art object that accrues cultural value by negotiating art history and theory, yet which has little or no economic value.

2001

Freelance Conceptual Artist, http://www.Mandiberg.com/time launched April 2nd
Shop Mandiberg, http://www.Mandiberg.com/shop, launched January 1st

On New Year's Day 2001, I launched Shop Mandiberg, a fully functional e-commerce site which marketed and sold all my possessions. In April I added the sale of my time with the section entitled Michael Mandiberg Freelance Conceptual Artist. This performance lasted for the entirety of 2001, closing on New Year's eve, during which time I sold roughly one third of my possessions. The site exists as it appeared on the last day of business, with the ability to purchase removed.

Video Art Works

2005

All Haiku, All the Time (3:30)

An empty 24 hour news network studio glows on the screen in silence. The background is still, but the news ticker continues, typing out haiku in the night.

2003

First Person (Curatorial Project: Interactive DVD)

An Interactive DVD compilation of videos from Los Angeles and Mexico City in which artists use their bodies to collapse video, performance, and the direct address to the viewer. The interface was made by re-purposing the menu/scripting structure to create an interactive visual essay combining photographs, video, audio, and text. The artists included are Arturo Castelan, Ximena Cuevas, Sharon Hayes, Carla Herrera-Prats and Julia Steinmetz, Justin Lincoln, Michael Mandiberg, Rodney MacMillian, Amaranta Sanchez, Anne Walsh and Natalie Zimmerman.

2003

How did we go a whole year without this? (Two Channel, 6:15)

In September of 2002 I learned of a person whom acquaintances and close friends had confused for me on account of our bright red hair. After three months of stories about these encounters we finally ran into each other. Without speaking at length I invited him to conduct an interview with me. The video contains our first conversation.

2002

As Amy: April 20-30 2002 (for The Exchange Program) (21:30)

This video is my documentation from the Exchange Program (See above). It traces my experience living 11 days in the life of a young Toronto woman; I watch films with her mother, go to museums and parties with her friends, fly in her dad's airplane, and agonize over her recent breakup.

2002

Our Trip To Japan (Radio Edit), as "Hug & Kiss Taste" with Haruko Tanaka (3:30)

An impressionistic document of cultural phenomenon of Tokyo: organized crowds, fetishized English, and subway sounds.

Solo Exhibitions

(*Indicates solo exhibition of collaborative project, where the entire exhibition space was used to exhibit one collaborative project)

2004

*First Person (A DVD project in collaboration with with Carla Herrera-Prats and Anne-Julie Raccoursier,) Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico, November 18th

*First Person (A DVD project in collaboration with Carla Herrera-Prats and Anne-Julie Raccoursier,), Sala de Arte Publico Siquieros, Mexico City, Mexico, March 29th - April 16th

2003

*First Person (A DVD project in collaboration with Carla Herrera-Prats and Anne-Julie Raccoursier,), C-Level, Los Angeles, CA, August 30th

Mint Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, How did we go a whole a whole year without this?, March 30-April 5

2002

*Gen.Mod Café, Les Deux Cafés, Los Angeles, May 22nd

2001

*Gen.Mod Café, California Institute of the Arts, December 8th

AfterSherrieLevine.com at 32 N Moore Gallery, New York, NY, Paula Cooper Gallery, May 18-June 13

Group Exhibitions

(*Indicates exhibition of collaborative project, where a group of artist worked together to create one project)

2006

First Person at Artists Space, New York, in When Artists Say We, March 8- April 29th

2005

IN Network at Pace University Digital Gallery, New York, in Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration exhibition, November 15-December 16

Shop Mandiberg at New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in Rhizome ArtBase 101 exhibition (this was a major retrospective of the first decade of Internet Art,) June 23 - September 10

AfterSherrieLevine.com at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz Austria, Just Do It, The Subversion of Signs from Marcel Duchamp to Prada Meinhof exhibition, Feb 26 - June 6

Shop Mandiberg at Main Trend Gallery, Taipai Artists Village, Taiwan, It Works, A laboratory of a Wayward Economy exhibition, Jan 21 - Feb 26

2004

The Exchange Program at FILE festival, Sao Paolo, Brazil, November 5-10; The FILE festival is a large New Media Festival held annually in Brazil.

The Exchange Program at Ciberart-Bilbao, Bilbao Spain, April 23-30; The Ciberart-Bilbao festival is a large New Media Festival held annually in Brazil.

2003

The Exchange Program at Centro Parraga, XTRA at University of Murcia, Spain and the Atlantic Centre of Modern Art in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in The Conquest of Ubiquity exhibition (this was a major retrospective of Internet Art), Curated by Jose Luis Brea, October 16th - November 16th (Catalogue)

How did we go a whole year without this? at Armory Arts Center, Pasadena CA, in We've Moved exhibition, September 13th - November 16th

The Exchange Program at National Gallery of the Arts, Tirana Albania, in the Tirana Biennale 03:U-Topos exhibition and catalogue, Sept 12th - Dec 3rd

AfterSherrieLevine.com at Black Lab Gallery, Seattle, WA , in Un(c) exhibition, June 6th- 29th (Juried)

How did we go a whole year without this? at Ars Electronica, Linz Austria, in onscreen_4: Echo Sparks exhibition, April 2nd - September 20th

Shop Mandiberg at Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo Norway, in Written in Stone: A Net.Art Archeology exhibition, March 22- May 25

The Exchange Program on Turbulence.org, in Duchamp's Ideal Children's Children exhibition, Curated by Erik Sylvaggio, April 29th

2002

Critical Discourse at Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany, in Total Überzogen exhibition, Dec. 1st - Feb. 9th (Catalogue)

*Gen.Mod Café, at the UCLA Hammer Museum/EDA in LA Freewaves art festival, Los Angeles, November 23th

AfterSherrieLevine.com at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in Version>02 New Media Festival, April 18-21 (Juried)

AfterSherrieLevine.com at University of Arkansas Art Gallery, Little Rock, Ark., in The Low End Theory - Artists Multiples exhibition, February 22nd - March 20th, curated by Amy Wilson

Shop Mandiberg at Transmediale Media Art Festival, Berlin, in Go Public! exhibition, February 5-10. (Juried)

Shop Mandiberg at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in Net.Ephemera exhibition, curated by Mark Tribe, February 2-27

2001

Shop Mandiberg at Chapman Gallery, Salford University, Manchester UK, in Net.Ephemera exhibition, curated by Mark Tribe, November 9-30

AfterSherrieLevine.com at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, in Multiple Personalities exhibition, December 6 - January 5, 2002

Shop Mandiberg at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) and SudWestRundfunk(SWR), Karlsruhe Germany, in \\international media\art award 2001 finalist broadcast, October 2001.

Shop Mandiberg at Moving Image Gallery, New York, in Net.Ephemera exhibition, curated by Mark Tribe, May 3-June 6 (Catalogue)

Shop Mandiberg at University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, in Thaw O1 festival, March

Screenings

2003

How did we go a whole year without this? at Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, in Homemade screening, (Curated by Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat) November 29

How did we go a whole year without this? at Kunstburo, Vienna Austria, in Echo Sparks screening, Curated by Susi Jirkuff, July

How did we go a whole year without this? at Viper New Media Festival, Basel Switzerland, November 21-25 (Catalogue)

As Amy: April 20-30 2002 y at Viper New Media Festival, Basel Switzerland, November 21-25 (Catalogue)

How did we go a whole year without this? at Media Art Festival Friesland, Friesland, Netherlands, September 4-20th

How did we go a whole year without this? at Overlook Park Shorts, Cleveland, OH, August 16th

Selected Reviews

2006

Dan Bennet, What's Online, New York Times, March 25, Page C5: Review of Oil Standard.

Reena Jana and Mark Tribe, NewMedia Art, Taschen/Basic Art, (forthcoming); Historical survey of New Media Art published as part of the series Basic Art, featuring AfterSherieLevine.com

Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito At the Edge of Art, Thames and Hudson, (forthcoming); Historical survey of artists using the Internet, featuring Shop Mandiberg and AfterSherieLevine.com

2005

Olav Velthuis, Imaginary Economics: Contemporary Artists And The World Of Big Money, NAI Publishers; Historical survey of artists' exploration of economics, featuring AfterSherrieLevine.com

Laetitia Sellam, Avec Mobiles Apparents, Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris, August, pp. 30-31; Review of artists using cellphones featuring IN Network

Rachel Metz, Far Apart but Intensely Connected, Wired Online, April 21st, http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67230,00.html; Online review of IN Network by Wired Magazine.

National Public Radio's Weekend America, Digitally Divided, March 19th; Radio interview about the IN Network project.

Jill Walker, Publish Your Life under a Creative Commons License, Jill/txt, http://jilltxt.net/?p=1257; Online review of IN Network

2003

Rachel Greene, World of Art Series: Internet Art, Thames and Hudson, pp. 184-185, 191; Historical survey of Internet art published as part of the highly popular World of Art textbook series, featuring Shop Mandiberg and AfterSherieLevine.com

Marisa J. Futernick, Life Studies, Contemporary Magazine, London, #47/48, p. 37; Review of Shop Mandiberg

2002

Roberto Bosco and Stefano Caldana, Suplantación en Red, Cyberpais/El Pais, Spain, June 2002, p 60-62; Feature article on artists using the Internet to explore identity, highlighting Shop Mandiberg, The Essential Guide to Performing Michael Mandiberg, and The Exchange Program

Bertrand Gauguet, Mondialisation, Nouvelles Économies et Art sur Internet", Parachute n°106, April, pp 98-105; Feature article surveying artists exploration of e-commerce, featuring Shop Mandiberg

Robin Whitlaw, Command CV, Afterimage, Winter Issue, pp. 6-7; Feature article on AfterSherieLevine.com

2001

Shannon Tan, Stuff of his life, Miami Herald, 8/27/01, p C1-2; Review of Shop Mandiberg

Claire Barliant, Net Worth, Artbyte, July-August, pp. 44-49; Feature article surveying artists exploration of e-commerce, featuring Shop Mandiberg

Reena Jana, Is it Art or Memorex?, Wired Online, May 21th, http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,43902,00.html; Review of AfterSherieLevine.com

Diana Elkins, Perpetual Moments, now.com, May 19th, no longer online; Review of Shop Mandiberg

Artbyte.com, First Person, May 2nd, no longer online; Review of Shop Mandiberg.

Tilman Baumgartel, The Sell-Out Artists, Eyestorm.com, April 30th; Review of artists using e-commerce to explore personal expression, featuring Shop Mandiberg.

Simon Doonan, Try Purging the Boom Years and Start the New Age Clean, New York Observer 3/26 p29; Review of Shop Mandiberg.

Samantha Amjaali, For Sale: the posessions of a lifetime, Melburne Herald Sun, 3/25 p4; Review of Shop Mandiberg.

Greg Potter, Shopaholics alert!, Vancouver Courier, March 12th; Review of Shop Mandiberg.

Achy Obejas, Identity for Sale, Chicago Tribune, February 6, Section 5, p. 1, 3; Feature article on Shop Mandiberg.

Tilman Baumgartel, Der Ausverkauf des Selbsts, Berliner Zeitung, February 5, p. 16; Review of artists using e-commerce to explore personal expression, featuring Shop Mandiberg.

Matthew Mirapaul, A Market for Flotsam and Jetsam as Performance Art, New York Times, February 5, The Arts, p. E2; Review of artists using e-commerce to explore personal expression, featuring Shop Mandiberg.

Tom Giordano, Artist Sells All Online, Stamford Advocate, Business Section, p. 1; Review of Shop Mandiberg.

Lessley Anderson, Now On Sale Online: Me, The Industry Standard, February 5, p. 17; Review of Shop Mandiberg.

Performances

2002

Gen.Mod Café, LA Freewaves at the UCLA Hammer Museum/EDA, Los Angeles, November 23th

Gen.Mod Café, Les Deux Cafés, Los Angeles, May 22nd

The Exchange Program, with Amy Satterthwaite, Los Angeles and Toronto April 20th-30th

2001

Gen.Mod Café, California Institute of the Arts, December 8th

2000

Discipline Removal Definition, Brown University, April 27

1999

Parings, Brown University, May 10th

Six Variations on a History, Rhode Island School of Design, April 23rd

Panels and Artists Lectures

2005

Artist Lecture, University of California Santa Cruz, October 28th

Artist Lecture, The Upgrade, Eyebeam Atelier, New York City, February 24th

2004

Artist Lecture, Pace University, New York City, October 5th

Artist Lecture, Sala de Arte Publico Siquieros, Mexico City, Mexico, April 1st

2003

Artist Lecture, A Joker in the Global Bunker, RAM 2, Atelier Nord/Anart.no, Oslo Norway, Feb 6

2002

Panel Presentation, Public Privacy, Viper New Media Festival, Basel Switzerland, October 26

Turbulence Artist Talk, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, June 2th

2001

Panel Presentation, Post Media, Engine 27, organized by Michele Thursz, New York City, June 8th

2000

Performative Lecture, Discipline Removal Definition, Brown University, April 27

1999

Performative Lecture, Six Variations on a History, Rhode Island School of Design, April 23rd

Grants and Awards

2006

PSC-CUNY Project Grant, for Outsourcing Art

Turbulence Project Commission, for Oil Standard, with funds from the Jerome Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

2005

College of Staten Island CELT faculty development Grant

PSC-CUNY Project Grant, for Compositions for Voice and Ergonomic Equipment

Turbulence Project Commission, for IN Network, with funds from the Jerome Foundation

2002

Turbulence Project Commission, for The Essential Guide to Performing Michael Mandiberg, with funds from the Jerome Foundation.

2001

Zentrum For Kunstmedientechnologie (ZKM) \\international media\art award, Finalist, for Shop Mandiberg

Professional Service

2001-2005

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