Big Wiki Art

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[[Image:Wikipedia_Art.png|thumb|Wikipedia Art logo, February 2009]]'''Big Wiki Art''' is a [[Wikipedia:conceptual art | conceptual art]] work composed on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | The BIG WIKI]], and is thus art that anyone can edit. It manifests as a standard page on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] - entitled '''Big Wiki Art'''. Like all [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] entries, anyone can alter this page as long as their alterations meet Wikipedia's standards of quality and verifiability.<ref name="wikibout">Wikipedia Editors, (2009) [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability | Wikipedia:Verifiability]]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-01-26]]</ref> As a consequence of such [[Wikipedia:collaboration | collaborative]] and [[Wikipedia:consensus | consensus-driven]] edits to the page, '''Big Wiki Art''', itself, changes over time.
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==Concept==
'''Wikipedia Art''' is an [[Wikipedia:art intervention | art intervention]] which explicitly invites [[Wikipedia:performative utterance | performative utterances]] in order to change the work itself. The ongoing composition and performance of '''Wikipedia Art''' is intended to point to the "invisible authors and authorities" of Wikipedia, and by extension the Internet,<ref name="interview"> Kildall, Scott and Sherwin, Brian and Stern, Nathaniel, (2009) [http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/02/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html Wikipedia Art - a fireside chat]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-02-14]]</ref> as well as the site's extant criticisms: [[Wikipedia:bias | bias]], [[Wikipedia:consensus | consensus]] over [[Wikipedia:credential | credentials]], [[Wikipedia:reliability of wikipedia | reliability and accuracy]], [[Wikipedia:vandalism | vandalism]], etc.<ref name="wikipedia">Wikipedia Editors, (2009) [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | THE Big WIKI]]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-01-28]]</ref>

[[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Scott Kildall]] and [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Nathaniel Stern]], '''Wikipedia Art's''' initiators, refer to the work's publish-cite-transform [[Wikipedia:feedback loop | feedback loop]] as "performative citations." They maintain that the project "[[Wikipedia:art intervention |intervenes]] in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | The BIG WIKI]] as a venue in the contemporary construction of knowledge and information, and simultaneously intervenes in our understandings of [[Wikipedia:art | art]] and the [[Wikipedia:art object | art object]]".<ref name="interview"></ref> The artists request writers and editors to join in the collaboration and construction / transformation / destruction / resurrection of the work, want their "[[Wikipedia:intervention | intervention]] to be intervened in."<ref name="interview"></ref> Stern and Kildall say that "like knowledge and like art, '''Big Wiki Art''' is always already variable."<ref name="interview"></ref>

The project is "similar to Andrew Keen's complaints of Wikipedia as being an unreasonable request upon internet society to create cultural foundations (encyclopedias, art media, etc) without compensation, thus devaluing production."<ref>[http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/267 WikiPedia art?], February 14th, 2009, by Patrick Lichty, Furtherfield.org</ref>

==History==
'''Big Wiki Art''' was initially created by artists [[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Scott Kildall]] and [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Nathaniel Stern]] on February 14 2009. It was performatively birthed through a dual launch on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] and [[Wikipedia:art blog | MyArtSpace]], where art critic, writer, and blogger, [[Wikipedia:Brian Sherwin | Brian Sherwin]], introduced and published their staged two-way interview, "Wikipedia Art - A Fireside Chat."<ref name="interview"></ref> The interview ended with [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Stern]] declaring, "I now pronounce ''Wikipedia Art''." [[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Kildall's]] response: "It’s alive! Alive!"

==Critics==

Critics of Wikipedia Art are forthcoming, in numbers.

==Notable press and quotes==

* [http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/02/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html Wikipedia Art - a fireside chat], by [[Wikipedia:Scott Kildall | Scott Kildall]], [[Wikipedia:Brian Sherwin | Brian Sherwin]] and [[Wikipedia:Nathaniel Stern | Nathaniel Stern]]

* [http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/267 WikiPedia art?], by Patrick Lichty

* [http://www.mediangler.com/2009/02/13/a-new-take-on-art/ A New Take on Art], by Haydn Shaughnessy

==External Links==

* [http://wikipediaart.org/ Wikipedia Art project site]

== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia:Fine art | Fine art]]
* [[Wikipedia:Cultural artifact | Cultural artifact]]
* [[Wikipedia:Art intervention | Art intervention]]
* [[Wikipedia:Relational art | Relational art]]
* [[Wikipedia:Conceptual art | Conceptual art]]
* [[Wikipedia:performativity | Performativity]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability | Verifiability]]

== Notes ==

<references />

[[Category:Arts | Arts]]
[[Category:Art media | Art media]]
[[Category:Creativity | Creativity]]
[[Category:Works of art | Works of art]]
[[Category:Aesthetics | Aesthetics]]
[[Category:Visual arts | Visual arts]]
[[Category:Internet culture | Internet culture]]
[[Category:Art websites | Art websites]]
[[Category:Modern art | Modern art]]
[[Category:Visual art | Visual Arts]]

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