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'''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>

[[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 | Wikipedia]] 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, '''Wikipedia Art''' is always already variable."<ref name="interview"></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 | Wikipedia]] 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]]". 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." Stern and Kildall say that "like knowledge and like art, '''Wikipedia Art''' is always already variable."

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>

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==

==History==

'''Wikipedia 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!"

'''Wikipedia 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." 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==