{"id":1957,"date":"2009-06-02T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2009-06-02T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:41:47","slug":"wikipedia-art-in-venice-call-for-remixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/wikipedia-art-in-venice-call-for-remixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Art in Venice: call for remixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/remixes\/\"><strong>SEE THE CALL AND THE REMIXES SO FAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/\"><em>Wikipedia Art<\/em><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c originally an editable encyclopedia entry as art work \u00e2\u20ac\u201c applied for and was denied citizenship on Wikipedia. It now seeks refugee status in Venice through the establishment of <em>The Wikipedia Art Embassy<\/em>. Encyclopedic ambassadors, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, invite writings on, and creative remixes and alternative wiki postings of, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/\"><em>Wikipedia Art<\/em><\/a> project itself. Each will be featured on their now infamous site, wikipediaart.org<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/\"><em>Wikipedia Art<\/em><\/a> , officially part of Venice Biennale, has been called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more Wikipedia than Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Miltos Manetas, curator of Padiglione Internet (the Internet Pavilion). It is an incorporation of not only the artists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 primary concept, but the debates, biases and power struggles behind how it continues to exist. Now, Kildall and Stern are re-releasing <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/\"><em>Wikipedia Art<\/em><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the story, the concept, the logo, its texts and name \u00e2\u20ac\u201c under a Creative Commons license (CC-by). They request public remixes, transformative art and derivative works. They offer the piece up to business and info Wikis, to songwriters, fellow artists and filmmakers, to journalists and storytellers. Despite its absence from the number one source of online information, it perseveres in its temporary yet virtual housing in Italy (and Everywhere Else).<\/p>\n<p>Kildall and Stern continue their examination and intervention into how Wikipedia has reframed knowledge, by asking the public to re-look at and re-make Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mode of online knowledge production. Wikipedia is not open to any editor, not a democracy, and in a great position of power. While an amazing resource, as with any powerful institution, its users \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the general public \u00e2\u20ac\u201c should continuously question Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s methodologies and the power brokers that control them. <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/\"><em>Wikipedia Art<\/em><\/a> re-engages that general audience; it features any artist or writer who wishes to take part; it frames all public discourse and activity as an ongoing intervention into knowledge and authority \u00e2\u20ac\u201c on Wikipedia, on the Internet, in Venice and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/remix-call.pdf\">Download the call for remixes (pdf)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/remixes\/\">See the call and the remixes so far<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEE THE CALL AND THE REMIXES SO FAR Wikipedia Art \u00e2\u20ac\u201c originally an editable encyclopedia entry as art work \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,27,40,7,38,19,1,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-creative-commons","category-exhibition","category-me","category-milwaukee-art","category-stimulus","category-uncategorical","category-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-vz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2801,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/made-real-an-exhibition-by-scott-kildall-and-nathaniel-stern-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":1957,"position":0},"title":"MADE REAL: An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, London","author":"nathaniel","date":"12 May 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"MADE REAL Scott Kildall & Nathaniel Stern @ Furtherfield Date: Friday 27 May - Saturday 25 June 2011 Venue: Furtherfield Gallery (formerly HTTP) Links: http:\/\/www.wikipediaart.org MADE REAL an exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, the founders of Wikipedia Art. 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Make sure Wikipedia Art, and its collaborators, are not punished for their work! * The page on me (Nathaniel Stern) as an artist\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1924,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/deconstructing-wikipedia\/","url_meta":{"origin":1957,"position":4},"title":"Deconstructing Wikipedia","author":"nathaniel","date":"30 April 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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