updated December 11th, 2009
Activity Overview
Projects
Endorsements
I was washing dishes, and I thought, "Mike is a great artist, one who most amazingly uses 'Our Times' as his medium. Mike's art represents the passion, the humility, and the grace that is the American Way."
- M. Ritchey
WORK
2009 Launched
PortlandSportsman.com
2008 suddenly.org Group Show (Portland, OR and Los Angeles, CA)
2008 OK TO GO, video collaboration with Claire L. Evans
2008 Played Ivan Alexeev in "
Summer Song" music video by YACHT released by DFA records.
2007 Ultimate Blogger 3, in PICA's TBA Fstival
2007 Executive Producer,
YACHT - Healthy Student Music Video (2007)
2006 Monday on
HumanCalendar.com
2006 Executive Producer,
Audio Magic
2006 Ultimate Blogger 2
2005 Techno-Corporate Stock Images
2005 Make It Happen, Inspirational Corporate Electronica
2005 Ultimate Blogger, Season 1
2004 Rip City Investigations:
Operation Seraglio
2004 Virtual Currency Speculation
2003 Worked on
MeForyMayor, a failed political race.
2002 MishJokeClan, Virtual Performance Group
2001 Rip City Investigations:
The Harkness Project
2001 Launched
UrbanHonking.com
2000 Investigating the effects of automobile traffic on common comestibles with Josh Berezin
Press
ARCADE Journal:
Suddenly (Winter 2009)
Huffington Post:
Meet the Human I.P.O. (June 4, 2009)
Sputnik Magazine:
El valor sin dinero: KMIKEYM.COM (May, 2008)
Oregon Business Magazine:
Hot Stock Tip: Buy some shares in this guy (Nov, 2007)
Oregonian:
Talk about the ultimate reality show (9/21/07)
CNET:
Challenges! Alliances! Immunity! It's 'Ultimate Blogger 3'" (9/11/07)
Portland Mercury:
Talking to Mike Merrill of Ultimate Blogger 3 (9/11/07)
PDX Magazine:
An Internet Revolution (April 2007)
The Portland Tribune:
Forever Young (2/12/07)
Willamette Week (cover story):
Clique Here (3/1/06)
The Oregonian:
Outplay, outwit ... outblog? (2/18/06)
AlterNet.org:
Voted Off the Internet (5/4/05)
Guardian.co.uk
Pick of the Day (4/5/05)
Portland Mercury:
We Can Do It Better (2/17/05)
Portland Mercury:
Letter to the Editor (6/3/04)
Wired News:
Virtual Cash Breeds Real Greed (1/23/04)
Portland Mercury:
Letter of the Week (scroll down) (5/8/03)
Awards, Residencies, Talks & Panels
July 16, 2009 FREE CULTURE, University of Oregon, Portland, OR
June, 2009 FAME! Grant,
Tanda Foundation, New York, NY
January 30, 2009 Guest on
WK RADIO
November, 2007 Pecha Kucha #1, The Cleaners, Portland, OR
September 10, 2007 Ultimate Blogger, A How To Workshop, PICA TBA Festival
Memberships and Affiliations
The Adventurers Club
Rhizome
etoy shareholder
Veterans Defending the Bill of Rights
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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