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Wikipedia Art

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

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07 November 2008 by nathaniel

SUPPORT TURBULENCE.ORG

It only takes a sec, and even a couple of bucks (instead of that cup o’ morning Joe) helps them WAY more than it hurts you. In this time of financial crisis, we NEED to support spaces that support us. Turbulence is one of the few new media art commissioning institutions around, and the only that concentrates specifically on net.art. I just gave them $20; please match me on that – or go higher, or even give a fraction if that’s all you can do. Every little bit helps. Buy culture! Support turbulence!

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. has provided free public access to all of its projects and events for 27 years:

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27 October 2008 by nathaniel

SPRAWL: Group Exhibition in Milwaukee

[November 7-23 2008]
[Borg Ward Collective]
[823 W. National Ave, Milwaukee, WI]
[Opening Nov 7 6-10pm]
[Gallery Talk Nov 7, 7pm, Music to Follow]
[Gallery Hours Fridays 4-8pm Saturdays 12-5pm, or by appointment: gridworks1@gmail.com]
[http://www.master-list2000.com/sprawl/]
[Participating Artists]: Ric Stultz, Annushka Gisella Peck, Gina Rymarcsuk, Brandon Bauer, Bathas TV, Paul Fuchs, A. Bill miller, Lane Hall & Lisa Moline, Andy Ducett, Nicolas Lampert, Nathaniel Stern, Trent Hergenrader

We live in a conglomeration of superimposed information networks. Our physical world is being devoured and woven into the fabric of our digital environments. We are adapting to this situation as much as we are adapting it to fit our own needs. We believing in using, re-using, and mis-using every bit and byte available to us with what is left of our finger tips. SPRAWL is an environment that exhibits interpretations of how an information-rich world becomes an inseparable part of creative practice.

SPRAWL is a gray area between what is left and what is to come.

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08 October 2008 by nathaniel

settled

Via Art Heat via M&G:

Last week BMW and its advertising agency, Ireland Davenport, offered Marx an out-of-court settlement and apology for copyright infringement.

In 2005 Marx held a solo exhibition at the Warren Siebrits gallery in Johannesburg, in which he showcased a technique he had developed of creating line illustrations from roads on map fragments.

Ireland Davenport used the idea in a 2006 newspaper campaign advertising the BMW Z4. According to sources close to the artist he claimed R1,5-million in damages.

On September 25 some of South Africa’s top artists, including William Kentridge and Penny Siopis, donated their works to an auction to raise funds for Marx’s legal fees. The auction, held at Newtown’s Bag Factory art studios, raised about R450 000.

Legal fees were estimated to be R300 000, the balance will be used to set up a David and Goliath Fund, which will help artists in future plagiarism claims.

In a statement this week attorney Owen Dean said Marx, Ireland Davenport and BMW SA had “amicably” settled the case.

The agency said it had no intention of associating its campaign with Marx’s work, adding that it “fully supports the arts and regrets if any impression to the contrary was given”.

The apology contradicts a report in The Star earlier this week in which BMW spokesperson Benedict Maaga said the company “contests the assertion that it has infringed the rights of the artist Gerhard Marx or plagiarised his work”.

Pretoria-based Owen, who represented the family of deceased composer Solomon Linda in a royalties claim against Disney Enterprises over The Lion Sleeps Tonight, said that copyright infringement is on the increase in South Africa.

“There is a cavalier attitude, one of the problems is that it is now so easy to reproduce works — like downloading them from the internet.” Dean said.

The David and Goliath fund, he said, could play an important role because the Copyright Act is expensive to enforce.

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24 September 2008 by nathaniel

david&GOLIATH: artists versus corporate crime (updated)

Reember this? Gerhard Marx had his art work pretty much stolen by an ad agency for a series of BMW ads. That lawsuit is about to come to a head; many artists want to help – and also don’t want to allow this to happen again.

Here’s how the bag factory plans to help:

You are hereby invited to attend the david&GOLIATH auction to be held at The Bag Factory in Fordsburg, Johannesburg onThursday, 25 September 2008 at 19h00. Preview and auction registration will be possible from 17h00.

The relationship between the arts and commercial industry is one in which issues of creative ownership and copyright infringement is frequently contested. It is generally financially impossible for the individual artist to address these issues legally when faced with a corporate giant.

The david&GOLIATH initiative is aimed at creating a platform through which the arts can support the arts in protecting creative ownership. Prominent South African artists have generously sponsored artworks to be auctioned off at this fundraising event, which is proudly hosted by The Bag Factory. Funds raised at this event will be used to support the case of Gerhard Marx vs. Ireland Davenport and BMW due to occur in the High Court on the 9th of October 2008

Any further profits from this auction will enable the establishment of the david&GOLIATH trust, which will aim to financially support artists against copyright infringement and commercial exploitation.

Supporting Artists: Wim Botha Jo Ractliffe Penny Siopis Aiden Dom Bronwyn Lace Clive van den Berg Conrad Kemp David Andrew Diane Victor Dorothy Kreutzfeldt Ellen Rose Gerhard Marx Jeremy Wafer Jonah Sack Joni Brenner Kim Lieberman Lehlogonolo Mashaba Liam Lynch Maja Marx Marco Cianfanelli Marcus Neustetter Minette Vari Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi Nhlapo Senzo Nirupa Sing Olaf Bisschoff Penny Siopis Philip Miller Richard Forbes Richard Penn Robyn Penn Sabelo Mlangeni Santu Mofokeng Stefanus Rademeyer Stephan Erasmus Suzanne du Preez Usha Seejarim Walter Oltmann William Kentridge Wim Botha Yvonne Harvey Zander Blom and more.

25 September 2008 from 17h00 onwards. Auction commences at 19h00
The Bag Factory
10 Mahlatini Street
Fordsburg
011 834 9181

update: look at some of the works!

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13 August 2008 by nathaniel

Jozi and the (M)other City

A few weeks advance notice, but this is the show Doin’ my part to lighten the load was commissioned for. The JAMC site is also now live, and worth checking out – some great projects by my fellow South Africans!

Jozi and the (M)other City Cape Town exhibition invitation

Jozi and the (M)other City
8 SeptemberÂ – 26 September
Michaelis Gallery, 32 Orange Street, Cape Town South Africa
opens 18h30 8 September