Mary Louise Schumacher pens a great piece on Wikipedia Art in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, entitled Deconstructing Wikipedia. Snippet: Two artists staged an art intervention within Wikipedia, turning the “free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit” into an art medium. By making a sort of readymade art object from a Wikipedia page, Nathaniel Stern, of [...]
Great article on new directions in the art world – written by Hrag Vartanian, as coverage of a Jerry Saltz lecture – in NYFA. NYFA Current – Art News for artists and all those who support them Moneyquote: The new art world, he conjectured, will be something we won’t recognize, and will be dominated by [...]
You probably heard about the threat of a lawsuit from Wikimedia on Wikipedia Art by now, but just in case: Here’s how we went public, on EFF: Wikipedia Threatens Artists for Fair Use Here’s the legal history on our site. And it exploded, of course, when it got slashdotted. I urge readers to make their [...]
I’ve still not had much of a chance to document my latest work in video/sculpture/print objects with Jessica, but there’s a brief review of it on Susceptible to Images. I hope to have documentation text and images up in the next week or two, video the following week or two…. UPDATE: lots of great documentation, [...]
Implicit Art gets a thoughtful and good review on Art Connect. It’s rare to see so much time taken to reflect what makes a good blog, or a good art site, and this space does both. Check it. Tags: Ireland Art, Links, art, art and tech, inbox, me, milwaukee art, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, south [...]
Jon Coffelt – friend and Wikipedia Art collaborator – in the Examiner! We love him around here, so hooray! Salt Lake City Fine Arts Examiner: ASSASSINATION: Jon Coffelt, Artist Represented by AMMO and Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery and Curator Coffelt, who is definitely one of the most versatile artists around New York, has been a good [...]
This is the third in a series of MFA student features from the graduate program I work in at Peck School of the Arts, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. These will be cross-posted on the MyArtSpace.com blog. UW-Milwaukee Grad Student features are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Sarah Holden is [...]
Upgrade! Milwaukee presents Patrick Lichty and Christopher Burns! Sunday April 19, 7 – 9 PM MOCT, 240 E Pittsburgh Ave Milwaukee, WI 53204 Please come to our first-ever Upgrade! Milwaukee, featuring Chicago-based Patrick Lichty and Milwaukee’s own Christopher Burns! patrick lichty Patrick Lichty (b.1962) is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the [...]
Yes, I know. I’ve been promising a blog for some time. There’ll have to be a redux in the next couple of weeks, as I just don’t have the time right now. But in the interim, if you are a Rhizome member, please take a moment to vote for my new art proposal, Given Time. [...]
I have quite a bit of blog catching up to do – lots going on over here that I’d love to share – but have been a bit snowed under. Here’s one reason why: I JUST SUBMIT MY 286-page PHD DISSERTATION. Like, less than a minute ago. No sh!t. Slightly anti-climactic, and there’s still a [...]
