Dear members of the CRUMB List:
Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern here, the progenitors of Wikipedia Art <http://wikipediaart.org>. The original piece served as both an art work that anyone can edit, and a social intervention into the power structures at Wikipedia (and social media at large).
We're writing to ask for your help with, and participation in, a curatorial project involving our work.
Wikipedia Art was recently nominated as a finalist for the Transmediale Award <http://www.transmediale.de/en/node/16296>, and we've been invited to "present, share, discuss or in some form show, demo etc.." the work as part of the festival in Berlin next February.
Given that WIkipedia Art is constituted of text and online relationships, it's hard to find the best way to give it form. In the past, we've had a call for "re-mixes" of Wikipedia Art exhibited online as part of the Venice Biennale <http://wikipediaart.org/remixes/>, and hired actors to perform a scripted re-mix/mash-up of the Wikipedia Art deletion debate with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, at a gallery in New York.
For Transmediale, we've proposed another community-based collaboration. Specifically, we said we'd ask the members of the CRUMB list-serv for recommendations on how to "exhibit" our work. We are asking for your expertise and ideas. The installation and exhibition will be decided as a collaboration between you, us, and the Transmediale folks: Syelle Hase <[log in to unmask]> and Stephen Kovats <[log in to unmask]>. We'll be keeping records of this discussion as well, in case it is to become part of the work. There are some space and other resource limitations, as always, but we're very open to anything feasible within that scope. Consensus on the best way forward is not necessary, and any and all ideas and viewpoints are welcome. We hope you want to be involved, and to come up with some fantastic ways of presenting our work.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Scott Kildall
http://www.kildall.com
Nathaniel Stern
http://nathanielstern.com
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