The College of Staten Island is celebrating a notable faculty achievement as Professor Michael Mandiberg of the Media Culture Department recently completed a five-year-long project commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Their project, Live Study, is on permanent view as an online exhibition in the museum’s Artport platform, highlighting innovative work at the intersection of digital media and contemporary art.
Spanning from 2019 to 2024, Live Study is not just an exhibition, it’s a living archive of labor, memory, and artistic process. The project began as a continuous livestream from Mandiberg’s studio, documenting hundreds of hours of painting. Today, that footage forms a digital archive alongside a striking collection of portraits that challenge how we think about artistic production and the people behind it. Read more...