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[[Image:Wikipedia_Art.png|thumb|Wikipedia Art logo, February 2009]]'''Wikipedia Art''' is a [[Wikipedia:conceptual art | conceptual art]] work composed on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]], and is thus art that anyone can edit.  It manifests as a standard page on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] - entitled '''Wikipedia 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, '''Wikipedia Art''', itself, changes over time.

[[Image:Wikipedia_Art.png|thumb|Wikipedia Art logo, February 2009]]'''Wikipedia Art''' is a [[Wikipedia:conceptual art | conceptual art]] work composed on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]], and is thus art that anyone can edit.  It manifests as a standard page on [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] - entitled '''Wikipedia 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, '''Wikipedia Art''', itself, changes over time.

 

==Concept==

==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 | Wikipedia]]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-01-28]]</ref>

'''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 | Wikipedia]]. Retrieved on [[Wikipedia:2009-01-28]]</ref>

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

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

==External Links==

== Links==

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

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

* [[Wikipedia:Fine art | Fine art]]

* [[Wikipedia:Fine art | Fine art]]

* [[Wikipedia:Cultural artifact | Cultural artifact]]

* [[Wikipedia:Cultural artifact | Cultural artifact]]

* [[Wikipedia:performativity | Performativity]]

* [[Wikipedia:performativity | Performativity]]

* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability | Verifiability]]

* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability | Verifiability]]

== Notes ==

== Notes ==