SEE THE CALL AND THE REMIXES SO FAR
Wikipedia Art – originally an editable encyclopedia entry as art work – applied for and was denied citizenship on Wikipedia. It now seeks refugee status in Venice through the establishment of The Wikipedia Art Embassy. Encyclopedic ambassadors, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, invite writings on, and creative remixes [...]
I’ve been thinking about posting this for a while - it’s an experiment. Please comment if you have anything to add, you disagree with, or if you like or dislike the post. There may or may not be more like it in the future, depending on the response (or lack thereof).
Like making art, there are [...]
Nice to see Jimbo talk about Art and Wikipedia. It’s worth a read if only to hear how carefully Wikipedia’s figure-head thinks and speaks in relation to notability and possibilities with arts coverage on Wikipedia. I agree with all of what he says (although it’s admittedly very noncommittal - so hard to disagree with), and [...]
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 Milwaukee, and [...]
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 own judgments via the legal [...]
Last night saw the opening of Night Work at The Armoury Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some great responses, surprise guests, new show offers, decent sales - a really great Milwaukee debut for both me and Jessica (my collaborator). Thanks to everyone who helped, came out, etc. For those who didn’t make it, the show was [...]
This is the second 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
After graduating with a BFA 2006, [...]
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.
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The main issue for me is not whether I (or others) [...]
xkcd - A Webcomic - Neutrality Schmeutrality
Neutrality Schmeutrality
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