“From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!” – Printing Wikipedia for art’s sake June 22, 2015 – Posted in: Books and Art, Conceptual Art, Content, Installation

The latest exhibition at the Denny Gallery features a sampling of Michael Mandiberg’s wild project called “Print Wikipedia.” Here’s the skinny: Print Wikipedia is a both a utilitarian visualization of the largest accumulation of human knowledge and a poetic gesture towards the futility of the scale of big data. Mandiberg has written software that parses the entirety of the English-language Wikipedia database and programmatically lays out thousands of volumes, complete with covers, and then uploads…