FEATURE on CricketToes: Time Has Come for a Milwaukee Upgrade! Time Has Come for a Milwaukee Upgrade! Upgrade! At a point in history when independent artists, collectives, galleries, and small arts organizations are struggling to see their way through this thickly choking economic smog, all the while acutely aware that the endeavors of some of [...]
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 [...]
Night Work / Distill Life sees a couple of blog features, namely on DVblog and Networked Performance. Thanks Jo and Michael! I must quote Michael, as he amuses me so: Documentation of work of surpassing loveliness & smarts both, from Jessica Meuninck-Ganger & Nathaniel Stern*** as they meld digital photo frames, printing and drawing into [...]
Documentation of several pieces from Night Work, with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, is now live. Night Work, an exhibition featuring Milwaukee-based art professors and instructors at the artist-run Armoury Gallery, premiered my new body of collaborative works with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. Playfully called “Distill Life,” this ongoing series of art objects combines hand-made works on paper [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Night Work @ The Armoury Gallery The Armoury presents Night Work, featuring the work of six of Milwaukee’s most established contemporary artists. Opening Reception: Friday, March 27th 6:00 – 10:00 pm Show runs: March 27 – May 2 Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12:00 – 5:00 pm 1718 N 1st St 3N3, Milwaukee, WI 53212 The Armoury [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FL was grand, WI is cold, I am writing my dissertation. Pix from trip, and maybe a few from Milwaukee’s gallery night (this Friday) in the next week or two. Tags: me, uncategorical
yeh, that’s pretty much all i got right now. – defrosting in Florida with Teh Fam Tags: me, uncategorical
