{"id":2801,"date":"2011-05-12T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2011-05-12T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:21:58","slug":"made-real-an-exhibition-by-scott-kildall-and-nathaniel-stern-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/made-real-an-exhibition-by-scott-kildall-and-nathaniel-stern-london\/","title":{"rendered":"MADE REAL: An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADE REAL<\/a><\/h1>\n

Scott Kildall & Nathaniel Stern @ Furtherfield<\/h3>\n

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Date: Friday 27 May – Saturday 25 June 2011<\/div>\n
Venue: Furtherfield Gallery (formerly HTTP)<\/div>\n
Links: http:\/\/www.wikipediaart.org<\/a><\/div>\n

MADE REAL
\nan exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, the founders of Wikipedia Art.
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\nPrivate View: Thursday 26 May 2011, 6.30-9pm<\/strong>
\nUnit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY<\/p>\n

Networks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c social, political, physical and digital \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are a defining feature of contemporary life, yet their forms and operations often go unseen and unnoticed. For this exhibition Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, artists and co-founders of Wikipedia Art take these networks as their artistic materials and play-spaces to create artworks about love, power-play and a new social reality.<\/p>\n

Three works are shown for the first time in the UK: Wikipedia Art<\/a><\/em>, a collaborative work \u00e2\u20ac\u0153made\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of dialogue and social activity; Given Time<\/em><\/a>, an Internet artwork that creates a feedback loop across virtual and actual space; and Playing Duchamp<\/em><\/a>, a one-on-one meeting and game between an absent artist and viewer\/participant.<\/p>\n

Contact Alessandra Scapin ale[at]furtherfield[dot]org +44 (0) 2088022827
\nFree admission to exhibition and events<\/p>\n

Wikipedia Art<\/strong> by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcif you claim something to be true and enough people agree with you, it becomes true.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em> Steve Colbert on Wikiality<\/p>\n

‘I now pronounce Wikipedia Art … It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alive! Alive!’<\/em> Kildall and Stern<\/p>\n

Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern famously used Wikipedia as an artistic platform, creating a collaborative project that explores and challenges our understanding of how knowledge is formed and disseminated. For over a year they planned the initiation of Wikipedia Art<\/a><\/em>, a socially generated artwork that exploits a feedback loop in Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s citation mechanism. Here, a “word war” across blogs, interviews and the mainstream press, which involved Wikipedians, artists, journalists, lawyers and even the Wikimedia Foundation itself, continuously defined and transformed a work of art in much the same way that these categories define the discourses of the everyday.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is not Wikipedia<\/em>, oil on canvas?, 2010, – Wikipedia Art Remix by Patrick Lichty<\/p>\n

‘We ask our potential collaborators \u00e2\u20ac\u201c online communities of bloggers, artists and instigators \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to exploit the shortcomings of the Wiki through performance.’<\/em> Kildall and Stern<\/p>\n

(Often unwitting) collaborators ‘performed’ the work through a debate about its aesthetic, conceptual and legal legitimacy in over 300 texts in over 15 languages on the Internet via blogs and forums such as Rhizome and Slashdot, and in the press including the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian UK.<\/p>\n

This exhibition charts the inception, birth, life, death and resurrection of Wikipedia Art<\/a><\/em>, which questions the authoritative role of Wikipedia, and reveals its fallibility whilst debating the control of access to and creation of knowledge.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia Art<\/a> <\/em>featured in the Internet Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2009. In 2011 it was an awarded finalist at the Transmediale festival in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Also showing in this exhibition<\/h3>\n

Given Time<\/strong><\/em> by Nathaniel Stern
\nFurtherfield presents Stern’s polar projections of Second Life lovers. Second life is a 3D simulated and virtual world, inhabited daily by thousands of people around the globe. To access Second Life, you must embody an avatar (a virtual human representation of yourself), seeing what they see through a computer screen. Stern places us, and his lovers, in a feedback loop between virtual and actual space.<\/p>\n

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In Given Time<\/em>, two life-sized and hand-drawn avatars simultaneously stare longingly across their virtual pond, and the real world gallery floor. They hover in mid-air, almost completely still, supported by the gentle sounds of their breath, the wind blowing, and birds in the far off distance. The viewer is both the observer and participant of this reciprocal relationship. Through the bodies and eyes of another, we see, look and are seen. Stern says: “Here, an intimate exchange between dual, virtual bodies is transformed into a public meditation on human relationships, bodily mortality, and time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inevitable flow.”<\/p>\n

Playing Duchamp<\/em><\/strong> by Scott Kildall<\/p>\n

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\nThe American artist Scott Kildall, exhibiting for the first time in the UK, has fused the two worlds of art and chess in an homage to Marcel Duchamp, chess master and artist recognised for shifting the paradigm of conceptual art. Using the recorded matches of Duchamp’s 72 tournament games, Kildall has modified an open source chess engine to play chess as if it were Marcel Duchamp. By sitting down to this game of computer chess, visitors interact with the ghost of Marcel Duchamp, whose love for chess rivaled his attraction to art.<\/p>\n

Furtherfield invites you to come and play because as Duchamp said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The creative act is not performed by the artists alone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Events<\/h3>\n

Going the distance for fine dining with global friends<\/strong>
\nTo accompany this exhibition, in June, Furtherfield will be hosting two telematic dinner parties with the aim to create a co-presence dining experience with our remote friends mediated by digital technologies (network connections, projections, laptops and sonified objects). As food is the greatest mediator, we aspire to a satisfying remote connection through the frame of the dining experience.
\nContact ale[at]furtherfield[dot]org for details on how to become a dinner guest.<\/p>\n

About the Artists<\/h3>\n

Scott Kildall<\/strong>
\nScott Kildall<\/a> is cross-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, prints, sculpture and performance. He gathers material from the public realm to perform interventions into various concepts of space.<\/p>\n

Scott has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Philosophy from Brown University and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through the Art & Technology Studies Department. He has exhibited his work internationally in galleries and museums and received fellowships, awards and residencies from organisations including the Kala Art Institute, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Turbulence.org and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center.<\/p>\n

Scott is a founding member of Second Front \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the first performance art group in Second Life. He is an artist-in-residence at Recology San Francisco. He currently resides in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

More information: www.kildall.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Nathaniel Stern<\/strong>
\nNathaniel Stern<\/a> (USA \/ South Africa) is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, mixed reality art and multimedia physical theatre performances, to digital and traditional printmaking, concrete sculpture and slam poetry.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel has held solo exhibitions at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johnson Museum of Art, Museum of Wisconsin Art, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and several commercial and experimental galleries throughout the US, South Africa and Europe. His work has been shown at festivals, galleries and museums internationally, including the Venice Biennale, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, International Symposium for Electronic Art, Transmediale, South African National Gallery, International Print Center New York, Milwaukee Art Museum and more. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

More information: http:\/\/nathanielstern.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Download Wikipedia Art: Citation as Performative Act <\/a>(Creative Commons licensed)<\/strong>
\nby Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, to be included as a chapter in \u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Wikipedia: Critical Point of View. Eds. Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (University of Amsterdam), 2011. Forthcoming. Print.<\/p>\n

Furtherfield, Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY, +44 (0) 2088022827
\nFree admission to exhibition and events -contact Alessandra Scapin ale[at]furtherfield[dot]org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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