[Nettime-bold] Announcing AfterWalkerEvans.com and AfterSherrieLevine.com

["AfterWalkerEvans.com" <info {AT} AfterWalkerEvans.com>]

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 {AT} 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.com
http://www.AfterSherrieLevine.com
http:/www.Mandiberg.com

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