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[[Image:Wikipedia_Art.png|thumb|Wikipedia Art logo, February 2009]]'''Wikipedia Art''' is a [[Wikipedia:conceptual art | conceptual art]] work composed on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]], and is thus art that anyone can edit.  It manifests as a standard page on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] - entitled '''Wikipedia Art'''. Like all [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] entries, anyone can alter this page as long as their alterations meet Wikipedia's standards of  quality and verifiability.<ref name="wikibout">Wikipedia Editors, (2009) [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability | Wikipedia:Verifiability]]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-01-26]]</ref> As a consequence of such [[Wikipedia:collaboration | collaborative]] and [[Wikipedia:consensus | consensus-driven]] edits to the page, '''Wikipedia Art''', itself, changes over time.
 
[[Image:Wikipedia_Art.png|thumb|Wikipedia Art logo, February 2009]]'''Wikipedia Art''' is a [[Wikipedia:conceptual art | conceptual art]] work composed on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]], and is thus art that anyone can edit.  It manifests as a standard page on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] - entitled '''Wikipedia Art'''. Like all [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] entries, anyone can alter this page as long as their alterations meet Wikipedia's standards of  quality and verifiability.<ref name="wikibout">Wikipedia Editors, (2009) [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability | Wikipedia:Verifiability]]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-01-26]]</ref> As a consequence of such [[Wikipedia:collaboration | collaborative]] and [[Wikipedia:consensus | consensus-driven]] edits to the page, '''Wikipedia Art''', itself, changes over time.
 
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==Concept==
 
==Concept==
 
'''Wikipedia Art''' is an [[Wikipedia:art intervention | art intervention]] which explicitly invites [[Wikipedia:performative utterance | 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,<ref name="interview"> Kildall, Scott and Sherwin, Brian and Stern, Nathaniel, (2009) [http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/02/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html Wikipedia Art - a fireside chat]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-02-14]]</ref> as well as the site's extant criticisms: [[Wikipedia:bias | bias]], [[Wikipedia:consensus | consensus]] over [[Wikipedia:credential | credentials]], [[Wikipedia:reliability of wikipedia | reliability and accuracy]], [[Wikipedia:vandalism | vandalism]], etc.<ref name="wikipedia">Wikipedia Editors, (2009) [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-01-28]]</ref>
 
'''Wikipedia Art''' is an [[Wikipedia:art intervention | art intervention]] which explicitly invites [[Wikipedia:performative utterance | 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,<ref name="interview"> Kildall, Scott and Sherwin, Brian and Stern, Nathaniel, (2009) [http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/02/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html Wikipedia Art - a fireside chat]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-02-14]]</ref> as well as the site's extant criticisms: [[Wikipedia:bias | bias]], [[Wikipedia:consensus | consensus]] over [[Wikipedia:credential | credentials]], [[Wikipedia:reliability of wikipedia | reliability and accuracy]], [[Wikipedia:vandalism | vandalism]], etc.<ref name="wikipedia">Wikipedia Editors, (2009) [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-01-28]]</ref>
  
[[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Scott Kildall]] and [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Nathaniel Stern]], '''Wikipedia Art's''' initiators, refer to the work's publish-cite-transform [[Wikipedia:feedback loop | feedback loop]] as "performative citations." They maintain that the project "[[Wikipedia:art intervention |intervenes]] in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] as a venue in the contemporary construction of knowledge and information, and simultaneously intervenes in our understandings of [[Wikipedia:art | art]] and the [[Wikipedia:art object | art object]]".<ref name="interview"></ref> The artists request writers and editors to join in the collaboration and construction / transformation / destruction / resurrection of the work, want their "[[Wikipedia:intervention | intervention]] to be intervened in."<ref name="interview"></ref> Stern and Kildall say that "like knowledge and like art, '''Wikipedia Art''' is always already variable."<ref name="interview"></ref>
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[[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Scott Kildall]] and [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Nathaniel Stern]], '''Wikipedia Art's''' initiators, refer to the work's publish-cite-transform [[Wikipedia:feedback loop | feedback loop]] as "performative citations." They maintain that the project "[[Wikipedia:art intervention |intervenes]] in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] as a venue in the contemporary construction of knowledge and information, and simultaneously intervenes in our understandings of [[Wikipedia:art | art]] and the [[Wikipedia:art object | art object]]". The artists request writers and editors to join in the collaboration and construction / transformation / destruction / resurrection of the work, want their "[[Wikipedia:intervention | 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."<ref>[http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/267 WikiPedia art?], February 14th, 2009, by Patrick Lichty, Furtherfield.org</ref>
 
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."<ref>[http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/267 WikiPedia art?], February 14th, 2009, by Patrick Lichty, Furtherfield.org</ref>
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
'''Wikipedia Art''' was initially created by artists [[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Scott Kildall]] and [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Nathaniel Stern]] on February 14 2009. It was performatively birthed through a dual launch on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] and [[Wikipedia:art blog | MyArtSpace]], where art critic, writer, and blogger, [[Wikipedia:Brian Sherwin | Brian Sherwin]], introduced and published their staged two-way interview, "Wikipedia Art - A Fireside Chat."<ref name="interview"></ref> The interview ended with [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Stern]] declaring, "I now pronounce ''Wikipedia Art''." [[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Kildall's]] response: "It’s alive! Alive!"
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'''Wikipedia Art''' was initially created by artists [[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Scott Kildall]] and [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Nathaniel Stern]] on February 14 2009. It was performatively birthed through a dual launch on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] and [[Wikipedia:art blog | MyArtSpace]], where art critic, writer, and blogger, [[Wikipedia:Brian Sherwin | Brian Sherwin]], introduced and published their staged two-way interview, "Wikipedia Art - A Fireside Chat." The interview ended with [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Stern]] declaring, "I now pronounce ''Wikipedia Art''." [[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Kildall's]] response: "It’s alive! Alive!"
  
 
==Critics==
 
==Critics==
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* [http://www.mediangler.com/2009/02/13/a-new-take-on-art/ A New Take on Art], by Haydn Shaughnessy
 
* [http://www.mediangler.com/2009/02/13/a-new-take-on-art/ A New Take on Art], by Haydn Shaughnessy
  
==External Links==
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== Links==
  
 
* [http://wikipediaart.org/ Wikipedia Art project site]
 
* [http://wikipediaart.org/ Wikipedia Art project site]
 
== See also ==
 
 
* [[Wikipedia:Fine art | Fine art]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Fine art | Fine art]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Cultural artifact | Cultural artifact]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Cultural artifact | Cultural artifact]]
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* [[Wikipedia:performativity | Performativity]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:performativity | Performativity]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability | Verifiability]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability | Verifiability]]
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* [http://encyc.org/wiki/Art Art @ Encyc]
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==See also==
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* [[Art]]
  
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==

Latest revision as of 06:05, 5 June 2009

Wikipedia Art logo, February 2009

Wikipedia Art is a conceptual art work composed on Wikipedia, and is thus art that anyone can edit. It manifests as a standard page on Wikipedia - entitled Wikipedia Art. Like all Wikipedia entries, anyone can alter this page as long as their alterations meet Wikipedia's standards of quality and verifiability.[1] As a consequence of such collaborative and consensus-driven edits to the page, Wikipedia Art, itself, changes over time.

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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,[2] as well as the site's extant criticisms: bias, consensus over credentials, reliability and accuracy, vandalism, etc.[3]

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."[4]

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

Links

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Wikipedia Editors, (2009) Wikipedia:Verifiability. Retrieved on Wikipedia:2009-01-26
  2. ^ Kildall, Scott and Sherwin, Brian and Stern, Nathaniel, (2009) Wikipedia Art - a fireside chat. Retrieved on Wikipedia:2009-02-14
  3. ^ Wikipedia Editors, (2009) Wikipedia. Retrieved on Wikipedia:2009-01-28
  4. ^ WikiPedia art?, February 14th, 2009, by Patrick Lichty, Furtherfield.org

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