xtine burrough is a media artist and educator. She has worked in a variety of formats, including the web, digital video, photography and letterpress printing. Recent web projects include www.Delocator.net and www.MechanicalOlympics.org, websites that empower online users in the analog world and promote autonomy and interpretation. Delocator is an online tool that assists participants in locating, sharing and supporting locally owned cafés, movie theaters, and bookstores. Through MechanicalOlympics.org, xtine hired members of the Amazon.com Mechanical Turk elastic workforce to interpret and perform Olympic events during the Summer 2008 games. Web viewers and participants voted for gold, silver, and bronze winners based on contestant videos uploaded to YouTube.
xtine has shown or spoken about her work nationwide and internationally. She has participated in international festivals promoting digital art and culture including Futuresonic (UK), Electrofringe (AU), Sonar (SP) and Prog:ME (BR). xtine is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communications at California State University, Fullerton. A complete portfolio of her work can be viewed at www.missconceptions.net.
Michael Mandiberg is an artist, programmer, designer and educator. His work varies from web applications about environmental impact to conceptual performances about subjectivity, to laser cut lampshades for compact fluorescent lightbulbs.
Recent projects include HowMuchItCosts.us, a car direction site that incorporates the financial and carbon cost of driving, the Bright Idea Shade (with Steve Lambert) a Creative Commons licensed flat-pack laser cut lampshade for bare CFL lightbulbs, Stencilano, a stencil-friendly adaptation of the Zapfino font, and TheRealCosts, a Firefox browser plug-in that inserts carbon footprints into web sites that feature directions for air and ground travel.
His work has been exhibited at such venues as the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York City, Ars Electronica Center in Linz, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Transmediale Festival, Berlin. His work has been featured in such books as Tribe and Jana’s New Media Art, Blais and Ippolito’s At the Edge of Art, and Greene’s Internet Art. He is a recipient of grants and residencies from Eyebeam, Rhizome.org, and Turbulence.org/Jerome Foundation.
An Assistant Professor of Design and Digital Media at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, he is currently a Senior Fellow at Eyebeam. His work lives at www.Mandiberg.com, and his design work lives at www.SubsidiaryDesign.com. Raised in Portland, Oregon, he lives in and rides his bicycle around Brooklyn.