“Making Art with Failed Banks” By Mark Singer in the September 26, 2016 Issue Michael Mandiberg, an artist whose preoccupations merge digital information with visual representation, has a lot going on. This was also the case eight years ago, when he lived in Brooklyn (Prospect Heights, still does) and was a senior fellow at Eyebeam, a nonprofit that supports artists immersed in technology and playful technologists. “I was noticing that people were giving away books, streeting them, leaving them on…Read More
“Go for Broke: Cataloguing failure, one bank at a time” By Juliet Helmke | September 15, 2016 “527 is the correct number, a few more failed since info about the project came out,” says artist Michael Mandiberg, counting the number of books that make up his upcoming, site-specific installation “FDIC Insured.” All are cast off investment guidebooks that the artist has repurposed, laser printing their covers with the logo of a US bank that has officially “failed”—meaning it was forced to…Read More
“ArtRx NYC” By Jillian Steinhauer on September 13, 2016 This week is all about books, as Printed Matter’s beloved art book fair touches down in Long Island City, while a new satellite fair pops up in nearby Greenpoint. Plus, don’t miss the celebration of a pioneering performance series and the first retrospective for maintenance artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The FDIC’s Failed Banks When: Opens Thursday, September 15, 6–8pm Where: Art-in-Buildings Financial District Project Space (40 Rector Street, Financial District, Manhattan) Michael Mandiberg, “FDIC Insured (First Priority, Bradenton FL,…Read More
Market Research: An Interview with Michael Mandiberg By Tina Rivers Ryan The 2008 recession drew attention to the destabilization of financial markets by a banking sector that skirts the edges of regulation, using purposely inscrutable financial instruments. In response, a number of artists have attempted to represent the social, political, and financial networks that comprise contemporary capitalism. Around the time of the crisis, artist Michael Mandiberg began collecting discarded self-help financial books of the more optimistic recent past, along with…Read More
Don’t bank on it: New York artist’s memorial to financial failures comes to Wall Street Michael Mandiberg has recorded the logos of more than 500 banks that closed during the recession for his installation FDIC Insured Julia Halperin 9 May 2016 For six and a half years, from the height of the recession in 2009, the New York-based artist Michael Mandiberg woke up every Saturday, turned on his computer and discovered which US banks had failed that week. Then, he…Read More
This Is What Happens When You Try to Print Out the Entirety of Wikipedia By Jim O’Donnell, March 2016 How big is Wikipedia? How many printed volumes would it take to put all of the online encyclopedia on a library’s shelves? I’m only asking about the 5 million or so articles in the English language version—there’s at least that many more in other languages. Now we know, thanks to an artistic installation by New York artist Michael Mandiberg, first seen at the…Read More
MICHAEL MANDIBERG DENNY GALLERY By Jennifer W. Leung, printed in the October issue. For Michael Mandiberg’s “From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!” at Denny Gallery, the artist displayed a limited run of his Print Wikipedia project, 2015, which makes the online encyclopedia available in proprietary print-on-demand form. Several individual print copies and volumes titled Table of Contents and Contributor Appendix were shelved against a monochromatic wallpaper, these were accompanied by the real-time projection of file conversion and upload to the self-publishing distribution platform Lulu.com. The space had the…Read More
Print Wikipedia Project Reaches Final Entry BY JENNIFER SCHUESSLER JULY 13, 2015 4:55 PM July 13, 2015 4:55 pm 18 Installation view of “From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!,” featuring works from Print Wikipedia by Michael Mandiberg at Denny Gallery in Manhattan. Credit Michael Mandiberg/Denny Gallery, NYC Print Wikipedia, an effort to envision all of English-language Wikipedia as an old-fashioned dead-tree reference set, reached its conclusion just before 10 p.m. on Sunday when a handful of people gathered at a Lower East…Read More
Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves Michael Mandiberg, at his Brooklyn studio, has a new show, “From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!,” at the Denny Gallery.Credit…Mark Kauzlarich/The New York Times By Jennifer Schuessler June 16, 2015 The Wikipedia entry for “quixoticism” runs only about 255 words. But if anyone could argue for a personal mention, it might be Michael Mandiberg. For the past three years, he has been fully engaged in a project that might make even the most intrepid…Read More
Querying the New Appropriation Art: Is this Cynicism? By Joseph Henry, January 8, 2015 Michael Mandiberg, “After Sherri Levine,” 2001. The Denny Gallery may have given themselves a curatorial headache with the title of their current exhibition, Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism. There are more tricky connections and presumptions in that moniker alone than in the web mantras and second-person addresses that typically sign most contemporary shows. To begin, the title suggests there was an appropriation art of cynicism. To…Read More
