http://AfterWalkerEvans.com
http://AfterSherrieLevine.com
Michael Mandiberg
"Paula Cooper Gallery"
32 N Moore, 6th Floor
May 18 - June 13 by appt.
Reception Friday, May 18 (6-9pm)
In 1936, Walker Evans photographed the Burroughs, a family of sharecroppers
in Depression era Alabama. In 1979, Sherrie Levine rephotographed
Walker Evans' photographs from the monograph "First and Last." In
2001, Michael Mandiberg scanned these same photographs, publishing them
on the Web sites AfterWalkerEvans.com and AfterSherrieLevine.com - virtual
galleries designed to facilitate the dissemination of these images as part
of a commentary on how we arrive at information in this burgeoning digital
age.
On AfterWalkerEvans.com you will find a browsable selection of these
images, links to the high-resolution exhibition-quality images available
for download and print-out, along with a certificate of authenticity for
each image (that you print out and sign yourself) and, finally, directions
on how to frame the image so that it will fulfill the requirements of the
certificate.
By making the image's URL its title - with titles such as "Untitled
(AfterWalkerEvans.com/1.jpg)" - the images can be easily located and downloaded
by anyone. By distributing the images online with certificates of authenticity,
the images can be owned by anyone. Unlike the work of the late Felix
Gonzalez-Torres
- known for his spills of candy and stacks of paper from which the viewer
can take a piece - Mandiberg's certificates are used to insure that each
satellite image be considered equally authentic. In the work of Gonzalez-Torres
the sole certificate of authenticity, and thus, the right to reproduce
the work, is sold like a traditional art object. Mandiberg's work
assumes an explicit strategy to create a physical object with cultural
value, but little or no economic value.
Michael Mandiberg is a conceptual artist who uses the net to explore
issues surrounding commerce, labor, and language. His ongoing project
Shop Mandiberg is a fully functional e-commerce web site that markets and
sells every last one of his personal possessions. Shop Mandiberg
(http://www.Mandiberg.com) has received
80,000 hits, and sold over 60 of his possessions to date. His work
has been written about by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The
Berliner Zeitung, Artbyte.com, Eyestorm.com, among others. His work is
currently included in Net.Ephemera, curated by Mark Tribe at the Moving
Image Gallery in New York.
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For more information please contact: info@AfterSherrieLevine.com, or
917-584-2177
Please click the following link for a print ready version of this press
release:
http:/www.AfterWalkerEvans.com/AfterWalkerEvans_PressRel.doc
Please click the following links to access the sites:http://www.AfterWalkerEvans.comhttp://www.AfterSherrieLevine.comhttp:/www.Mandiberg.com
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