Hi everyone,
At 12pm (PST), Nathaniel Stern and I launched the "Wikipedia Art"
projects, along with numerous collaborators, including Brian Sherwin,
Patrick Lichty and Jon Coffelt.
We you to participate in this intervention on Wikipedia which asks
questions of legitimacy, authority and verifiability in the contact of
a conceptual art projects.
We've posted a new entry on Wikipedia called "Wikipedia Art." This
page is the manifestation of the work of art; alter its composition,
and you become a collaborator in the art's formation. The catch is
that Wikipedia, the world's free and editable encyclopedia, has
enforced standards of quality and verifiability. All Wikipedia
articles, and each fact written in them, must cite “credible” external
sources: interviews, blogs, or articles in “trustworthy” media
institutions.
Wikipedia Art is birthed, survives and transforms itself through
public performance and communal intervention. It is continuously
reconstituted and redefined in a participant-driven write+cite+edit
process that we call "performative citation."
Wikipedia Art MUST BE written about extensively both on- and off-line,
and these writings will in turn be included as part of the work, on
its Wikipedia page. This serves the dual purpose of verifying the
piece - which is considered controversial by those in the Wikipedia
community, and may occasionally be removed from the site - as well as
transforming it over time.
Here are three ways you can join the collaboration:
(1) Write a text, blog entry, essay or any other form of thoughts
about the project
(2) Edit the Wikipedia page itself, citing a published text (even your
own!)
(3) Pass along this call for participation to others
Link to the project:
http://www.wikipediaart.org
Initial interviews and essays
Wikipedia Art — a virtual fireside chat
http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/02/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html
WikiPedia art? -- by Patrick Lichty
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/267
This has QUICKLY turned into a discussion about articles for deletion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Wikipedia_Art
We invite you to join in the debate,
Scott Kildall
www.kildall.com
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