WikipediaArt.org is a collaborative performance and public intervention
Title
Wikipedia Art
Description
Excerpted from the website description:
- a collaborative performance and public intervention
Languages
English
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Concept
Wikipedia Art is an art intervention which explicitly invites performative utterances in order to change the work itself. The ongoing composition and performance of Wikipedia Art is intended to point to the "invisible authors and authorities" of Wikipedia, and by extension the Internet, Kildall, Scott and Sherwin, Brian and Stern, Nathaniel, (2009) Wikipedia Art - a fireside chat. Retrieved on Wikipedia:2009-02-14 as well as the site's extant criticisms: bias, consensus over credentials, reliability and accuracy, vandalism, etc.Wikipedia Editors, (2009) Wikipedia. Retrieved on Wikipedia:2009-01-28
Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, Wikipedia Art's initiators, refer to the work's publish-cite-transform feedback loop as "performative citations." They maintain that the project "intervenes in Wikipedia as a venue in the contemporary construction of knowledge and information, and simultaneously intervenes in our understandings of art and the art object". The artists request writers and editors to join in the collaboration and construction / transformation / destruction / resurrection of the work, want their " intervention to be intervened in." Stern and Kildall say that "like knowledge and like art, Wikipedia Art is always already variable."
The project is "similar to Andrew Keen's complaints of Wikipedia as being an unreasonable request upon internet society to create cultural foundations (encyclopedias, art media, etc) without compensation, thus devaluing production."WikiPedia art?, February 14th, 2009, by Patrick Lichty, Furtherfield.org
History
Wikipedia Art was initially created by artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern on February 14 2009. It was performatively birthed through a dual launch on Wikipedia and MyArtSpace, where art critic, writer, and blogger, Brian Sherwin, introduced and published their staged two-way interview, "Wikipedia Art - A Fireside Chat." The interview ended with Stern declaring, "I now pronounce Wikipedia Art." Kildall's response: "It’s alive! Alive!"
Critics
Critics of Wikipedia Art are forthcoming, in numbers.
Notable press and quotes
- WikiPedia art?, by Patrick Lichty
- A New Take on Art, by Haydn Shaughnessy
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See also
- Fine art
- Cultural artifact
- Art intervention
- Relational art
- Conceptual art
- Performativity
- Verifiability
Notes
Categories: Arts, Art media, Creativity, Works of art, Aesthetics, Visual arts, Internet culture, Art websites, Modern art, Visual Arts
