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 verifiability; any changes to the art must be published on, and cited from, ‘credible’ external sources: interviews, blogs, or articles in ‘trustworthy’ media institutions, which birth and then slowly transform what the work is and does and means simply through their writing and talking about it. Wikipedia Art may start as an intervention, turn into an object, die and be resurrected, etc, through a creative pattern / feedback loop of publish-cite-transform that we call “performative citations.” Wikipedia Art MUST BE written about extensively both on- and off-line. This serves the dual purpose of verifying the work – which is considered controversial by those in the Wikipedia community, and occasionally removed from the site – as well as transforming it over time. WE INVITE YOU TO DO SO!
WikipediaArt.org
the Wikipedia Art page on Wikipedia
the MyArtSpace Blog interview that birthed Wikipedia Art
