The newest contemporary art bi-annual of South Africa seems to have skipped a year (a year, not a round), but at least it’s still alive. From Africa Centre » home: The first edition of Spier Contemporary was an unparalleled success. It attracted close to 20 000 visitors in Cape Town and Johannesburg and provided a [...]
Good friend and great person Jessica Findley is applying for the “best job in the world.” Awesome video. Watch and vote below: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video vote for her here: http://www.islandreefjob.com/applicants/watch/0bShnMlzPYE Tags: Links, inbox, re-blog tidbits, uncategorical
I have been blogging for 7 years now. You are all, rightfully, sick of me. Tags: me
February 6-March 13, 2009 Inova/Kenilworth (Milwaukee) 2155 North Prospect Avenue Artist reception: February 6, 6-9 pm Really fascinating show – his first retrospective – at the INOVA gallery in Milwaukee. Very theatrical, lovely installations, precursors to relational art, some funny prints and drawings and time lines and maps. Definitely worth a visit. From the INOVA [...]
Although I’ve been keeping a low profile in the public debates about Wikipedia Art, I have had a few ongoing and private discussions with its critics and supporters. With his OK, the below is an excerpt from an email I wrote to Tom Moody yesterday. —– The main issue for me is not whether I [...]
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More 50-50, keep / delete discussions around Wikipedia Art, but now the debate is on Rhizome, and by the gatekeepers of, and participants in, the art blogosphere. I particularly love Curt Cloninger’s response to Tom Moody on Rhizome. Moody is a kind of anti-Lichty, being just as voiciferous in his dislike of the project, as [...]
Durova: Wikipedia Art and media restoration A worthy re-post, not really related to the Wikipedia Art project. I don’t think my own work is exactly suitable, but hopefully some of my readers might be able to get involved. Wikipedia had one of its more interesting deletion discussions overnight. A page called Wikipedia Art lasted about [...]
The art work / page has been deleted from Wikipedia, approximately 12 hours after its birth. But it is not dead, merely transformed – performatively un-uttered and soon to be resurrected in an/other form. Watch this space for upcoming/ongoing press and archives and interventions that are all part of Wikipedia Art as a work. In [...]
That’s right. The co-founder of Wikipedia has joined the Facebook Group for Wikipedia Art. How’s that for some credibility? If only these guys agreed (still marked for deletion). The group. Or click image to see that he is a member – this is for real, people. Tags: Ireland Art, Links, art, art and tech, creative [...]
Lots of cool edits to the page – see the history as well. Huge debate roaring as well. My favorite quote here (followed by mini argument) is by Wikipedia user “shmeck,” aka contemporary artist Shane Mecklenburger: KEEP The Wikipedia Art page is a self-aware example of Wikipedia’s mission of collective epistemology. It enacts and exposes [...]
Wikipedians are not only critical of Wikipedia Art (which has already been marked for deletion, within an hour of launch), but the powers that be are RETALIATING. Make sure Wikipedia Art, and its collaborators, are not punished for their work! * The page on me (Nathaniel Stern) as an artist has been up on Wikipedia [...]
Wikipedia Art launch – TODAY! SEE THE INTERVIEW A collaborative project initiated by Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall, Wikipedia Art is art composed on Wikipedia, and thus art that anyone can edit. Since the work itself manifests as a conventional Wikipedia page, would-be art editors are required to follow Wikipedia’s enforced standards of quality and [...]
Lee Rosenbaum aka CultureGrrl spoke to Bill Ivey this week (Art Politico: My Interview with Bill Ivey, Leader of President Obama’s Arts Transition Team – CultureGrrl) Money Quote: There are some advantages for artists and arts organizations to position themselves as unique, especially entitled, especially important. But I think there are also advantages to seeing [...]
