{"id":16,"date":"2014-05-16T19:34:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2014-05-26T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:19:43","slug":"wikipedia-art-original-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wikipedia-art-original-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Art (original)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/594px-Wikipedia_Art.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/594px-Wikipedia_Art-150x150.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia Art logo, February 2009\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Art logo,<br \/>February 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Wikipedia Art<\/b> is a <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:conceptual_art\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/conceptual_art\"> conceptual art<\/a> work composed on <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\"> Wikipedia<\/a>, and is thus art that anyone can edit. It manifests as a standard page on <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\"> Wikipedia<\/a> &#8211; entitled <b>Wikipedia Art<\/b>. Like all <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\"> Wikipedia<\/a> entries, anyone can alter this page as long as their alterations meet Wikipedia&#8217;s standards of quality and verifiability.<sup id=\"cite_ref-wikibout_0-0\" class=\"reference\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-wikibout-0\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> As a consequence of such <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:collaboration\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/collaboration\"> collaborative<\/a> and <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:consensus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/consensus\"> consensus-driven<\/a> edits to the page, <b>Wikipedia Art<\/b>, itself, changes over time.<\/p>\n<h2>Contents<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1\"><a href=\"#Concept\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">1<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Concept<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1\"><a href=\"#History\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">2<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">History<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1\"><a href=\"#Critics\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">3<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Critics<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1\"><a href=\"#Notable_press_and_quotes\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">4<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Notable press and quotes<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1\"><a href=\"#External_Links\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">5<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">External Links<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1\"><a href=\"#See_also\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">6<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">See also<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1\"><a href=\"#Notes\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">7<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Notes<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Concept\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">Concept<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Wikipedia Art<\/b> is an <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:art_intervention\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/art_intervention\"> art intervention<\/a> which explicitly invites <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:performative_utterance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/performative_utterance\"> performative utterances<\/a> in order to change the work itself. The ongoing composition and performance of <b>Wikipedia Art<\/b> is intended to point to the &#8220;invisible authors and authorities&#8221; of Wikipedia, and by extension the Internet,<sup id=\"cite_ref-interview_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-interview-1\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> as well as the site&#8217;s extant criticisms: <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:bias\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/bias\"> bias<\/a>, <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:consensus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/consensus\"> consensus<\/a> over <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:credential\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/credential\"> credentials<\/a>, <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:reliability_of_wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/reliability_of_wikipedia\"> reliability and accuracy<\/a>, <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:vandalism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/vandalism\"> vandalism<\/a>, etc.<sup id=\"cite_ref-wikipedia_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-wikipedia-2\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Scott_Kildall\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Kildall\"> Scott Kildall<\/a> and <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Nathaniel_Stern\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathaniel_Stern\"> Nathaniel Stern<\/a>, <b>Wikipedia Art&#8217;s<\/b> initiators, refer to the work&#8217;s publish-cite-transform <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:feedback_loop\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/feedback_loop\"> feedback loop<\/a> as &#8220;performative citations.&#8221; They maintain that the project &#8220;<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:art_intervention\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/art_intervention\">intervenes<\/a> in <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\"> Wikipedia<\/a> as a venue in the contemporary construction of knowledge and information, and simultaneously intervenes in our understandings of <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:art\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/art\"> art<\/a> and the <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:art_object\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/art_object\"> art object<\/a>&#8220;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-interview_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-interview-1\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> The artists request writers and editors to join in the collaboration and construction \/ transformation \/ destruction \/ resurrection of the work, want their &#8220;<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:intervention\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/intervention\"> intervention<\/a> to be intervened in.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-interview_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-interview-1\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> Stern and Kildall say that &#8220;like knowledge and like art, <b>Wikipedia Art<\/b> is always already variable.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-interview_1-3\" class=\"reference\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-interview-1\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"History\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">History<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Wikipedia Art<\/b> was initially created by artists <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Scott_Kildall\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Kildall\"> Scott Kildall<\/a> and <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Nathaniel_Stern\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathaniel_Stern\"> Nathaniel Stern<\/a> on February 14 2009. It was performatively birthed through a dual launch on <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\"> Wikipedia<\/a> and <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:art_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/art_blog\"> MyArtSpace<\/a>, where art critic, writer, and blogger, <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Brian_Sherwin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Sherwin\"> Brian Sherwin<\/a>, introduced and published their staged two-way interview, &#8220;Wikipedia Art &#8211; A Fireside Chat.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-interview_1-4\" class=\"reference\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-interview-1\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> The interview ended with <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Nathaniel_Stern\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathaniel_Stern\"> Stern<\/a> declaring, &#8220;I now pronounce <i>Wikipedia Art<\/i>.&#8221; <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Scott_Kildall\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Kildall\"> Kildall&#8217;s<\/a> response: &#8220;It\u2019s alive! Alive!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Critics\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">Critics<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Critics of Wikipedia Art are forthcoming, in numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Notable_press_and_quotes\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">Notable press and quotes<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.myartspace.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myartspace.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wikipedia Art &#8211; a fireside chat<\/a>, by <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Scott_Kildall\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Kildall\"> Scott Kildall<\/a>, <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Brian_Sherwin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Sherwin\"> Brian Sherwin<\/a> and <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Nathaniel_Stern\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathaniel_Stern\"> Nathaniel Stern<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/blog.furtherfield.org\/?q=node\/267\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.furtherfield.org\/?q=node\/267\" rel=\"nofollow\">WikiPedia art?<\/a>, by Patrick Lichty<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mediangler.com\/2009\/02\/13\/a-new-take-on-art\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediangler.com\/2009\/02\/13\/a-new-take-on-art\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">A New Take on Art<\/a>, by Haydn Shaughnessy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"External_Links\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">External Links<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wikipedia Art project site<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"See_also\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> See also <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Fine_art\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fine_art\"> Fine art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Cultural_artifact\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_artifact\"> Cultural artifact<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Art_intervention\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_intervention\"> Art intervention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Relational_art\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Relational_art\"> Relational art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Conceptual_art\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conceptual_art\"> Conceptual art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:performativity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/performativity\"> Performativity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Verifiability\"> Verifiability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Notes\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Notes <\/span><\/h2>\n<ol class=\"references\">\n<li id=\"cite_note-wikibout-0\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-wikibout_0-0\">\u2191<\/a> Wikipedia Editors, (2009) <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Verifiability\"> Wikipedia:Verifiability<\/a>. Retrieved on <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:2009-01-26\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009-01-26\">Wikipedia:2009-01-26<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-interview-1\">\u2191 <sup><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-interview_1-0\">2.0<\/a><\/sup> <sup><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-interview_1-1\">2.1<\/a><\/sup> <sup><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-interview_1-2\">2.2<\/a><\/sup> <sup><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-interview_1-3\">2.3<\/a><\/sup> <sup><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-interview_1-4\">2.4<\/a><\/sup> Kildall, Scott and Sherwin, Brian and Stern, Nathaniel, (2009) <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.myartspace.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myartspace.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wikipedia Art &#8211; a fireside chat<\/a>. Retrieved on <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:2009-02-14\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009-02-14\">Wikipedia:2009-02-14<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-wikipedia-2\"><a title=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-wikipedia_2-0\">\u2191<\/a> Wikipedia Editors, (2009) <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\"> Wikipedia<\/a>. Retrieved on <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:2009-01-28\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009-01-28\">Wikipedia:2009-01-28<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Categories: <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Arts\"> Arts<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Art_media\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Art_media\">Art media<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Creativity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Creativity\">Creativity<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Works_of_art\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Works_of_art\">Works of art<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Aesthetics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Aesthetics\">Aesthetics<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Visual_arts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Visual_arts\">Visual arts<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Internet_culture\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Internet_culture\">Internet culture<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Art_websites\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Art_websites\">Art websites<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Modern_art\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Modern_art\">Modern art<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikipedia:Category:Visual_Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Visual_Arts\">Visual Arts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia Art is a conceptual art work composed on Wikipedia, and is thus art that anyone can edit. It manifests as a standard page on Wikipedia &#8211; entitled Wikipedia Art. Like all Wikipedia entries, anyone can alter this page as long as their alterations meet Wikipedia&#8217;s standards of quality and verifiability.[1] As a consequence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}