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
