Michael Manning is a new media artist. He received his BFA from Tisch School of The Arts at New York University and his work focuses on themes manifesting from Britney Spears' change in mental health. He now lives/works/studies in Troy, NY at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Clay Shirky discusses the idea of a post-internet consciousness (and society) in a lecture at Harvard he gave in 2008. The ...