Hi everyone,
Today is the official launch Wikipedia Art Remixed for the Internet
Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, a project in which Scott Kildall and
Nathaniel Stern are offering up Wikipedia Art for public remix.
We would like you to consider a Remix of your own. We already have
several completed ones on: http://wikipediaart.org/remixes
Please pass along the call (below) to specific artists or other
sources who you think would be interested in remixing Wikipedia Art.
Best wishes,
Scott Kildall
www.kildall.com
Wikipedia Art goes to Venice (and Everywhere Else)
Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern invite you to re-mix the Wikipedia
Art project as part of the Padiglione Internet (the Internet Pavilion)
for the Venice Biennale. All works will be indirectly hosted on <http://wikipediaart.org/remixes
>.
Wikipedia Art began as an intervention on Wikipedia by Scott Kildall
and Nathaniel Stern on February 14th, 2009 with the posting of an
article called “Wikipedia Art” – “art that anyone can edit” by simply
writing about it. Several collaborators including Jon Coffelt, Brian
Sherwin and Patrick Lichty simultaneously published online articles
discussing the “Wikipedia Art” project, which were then cited back on
the “Wikipedia Art” page giving it “notability.” A heated deletion
debate ensued and 15 hours later, the “Wikipedia Art” page was removed
by an 18-year old Wikipedia admin named “Werdna.” The project now
exists at <wikipediaart.org> where it has, with the help of Public
Citizen, withstood a legal threat from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Ironically, due to its recent press coverage, a new “Wikipedia Art
controversy” page has been anonymously added to Wikipedia.
The original progenitors of the project, Kildall and Stern, are now
offering up Wikipedia Art for public remix – including all text, the
logo and even the name itself – under a Creative Commons license (CC-
by). Already, a number of artists have transformed the project into
songs, videos, text-based works, prints and more. In an explicit move
away from any sort of authorship, Kildall and Stern have defined the
artwork as “all discourse and aesthetic derivations surrounding it.”
The artists invite you to continue their examination into how
Wikipedia has reframed knowledge by joining this ongoing intervention
into knowledge and authority – on Wikipedia, on the Internet, in
Venice, and beyond. Despite its absence from the number one source of
online information, it perseveres in its temporary yet virtual housing
in Italy (and Everywhere Else).
Please upload your work somewhere on the Internet (youtube, vimeo,
flickr, Facebook, your own site), and send a link to: [email protected]
.
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