Thanks for the nudge, Sarah. Hello again, CRUMB.
You can see that Sarah pasted part of the initial email exchange below (and I added some of her first comments to it), in case folks want to re-look at the ideas batted about thus far.

The most concise I can be:

***We're looking for ideas on how to exhibit "Wikipedia Art" at Transmediale in February, and hope to - to use Sarah's phrase - crowdsource curate the work via the expertise of this list. I'm guessing we need something final before Christmas.***

A little more:

The piece we exhibit could point to collaboration, discourse, intervention, epistemology, the personalities behind the debates, or how Wikipedia Art fits into broader histories of art or any of these categories. Regardless of the route we choose, it should both play on / reference the original performance on WIkipedia (and elsewhere), and stand on its own in an interesting way. We're open to alternative modes of exhibition: performance, video, sculpture, printed booklets, files for download, mobile apps, another online project, etc.... We do have lots of extant texts to use, by us and by others (including the one we're growing here), that are part of and/or mediate the project on varying levels, and might make for interesting "material".

In terms of a deadline, I should probably defer to Stephen (Stephen?), but my guess is that if ideas started flowing now, we could have something final to go on before Christmas, giving Scott, the Transmediale folks and I time to plan / produce it, whatever it might be...

Please join the discussion!

nathaniel
http://nathanielstern.com



On Dec 1, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Sarah Cook wrote:

> Hi CRUMB list readers
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> As it is the first of the month (white rabbits in the snow!) this is a brief thank you to those who participated in the theme discussion for October and November about jurying and online curating... I thought it was useful the way it segued into discussions about copyright issues online, and would urge you to continue to discuss and use this list to ask those questions you would like answers to. Our apologies that we have been traveling and teaching/lecturing so much we haven't been more on top of moderating discussion here.
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> That said, I was very glad of the suggestion which came mid-month to contribute to a process to develop the WikipediaArt project for display at Transmediale (crowdsourcing curating?) and I am concerned we don't drop that thread. So I would urge CRUMB list lurkers to help out Scott and Nathaniel in this -- so far no one has suggested any other ideas than mine of remixing / mashing up in a performative style the WikipediaArt debate text with another work. CRUMB, as a list, as a distributed community, has never curated anything collectively before, and so this could be a very nice way to end off the year, with something productive. Nathaniel, can you rephrase what you want in as simple a task/question as possible and set a deadline for answers and feedback?
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> Meanwhile we'll try to keep the announcements to a minimum, while we keep one eye trained on the ongoing government machinations here in the UK which are affecting academia and the arts. Our next themed discussion will be in February, and Beryl will tell you more about that soon. Do please remember that the call for papers for the Media Art Histories conference, Rewire, closes at the end of January... and we'll be hosting a panel at CAA in New York in February, so if you want to meet up or suggest discussions in the run-up to that, get in touch! And friend us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/CRUMB-The-Curatorial-Resource-for-Upstart-Media-Bliss/316359367817
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> Cheers from very snowy England,
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>> On 16 Nov 2010, at 20:27, Nathaniel Stern wrote:
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>>> The original Wikipedia Art took the form of a Wikipedia page, which, given the citation mechanisms behind the site, also meant that all discussions both inside and outside of Wikipedia were implicated. We orchestrated a small number of interviews and articles and a bit of participation, then let the work unfold as more folks got involved. We believe that the discussions on, for example, Rhizome and ArtFagCity and iDC, were as integral to the project as the mainstream press and Wikipedia-based debates that allowed its very temporary existence on the site.
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>>> The Wikipedia Art Remixed project took quite a few forms, mostly video, some sound, and a few images. There were reenactments and mash-ups of the deletion debate and water-cooler discussions (Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert, and Michael Szpakowski), baseball cars (Qi Peng), rock music videos (Kent Watson), the addition of WIkipedia Art to many other Wikis (Gregory Kohs), and so much more.
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>>> For the New York gallery show, we worked with Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reicher, whose video we absolutely loved, and got local actors to perform the script from the aforementioned video.
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>>> And Scott and I have ourselves been working on an academic chapter about Wikipedia Art, which will appear in a book that critically analyzes Wikipedia put out by the Institute of Network Cultures at the University of Amsterdam next year. We've got a somewhat performed 20-minute paper version of this, which we've given together in India, and which I gave in Milwaukee and Scott gave in Amsterdam. We'd be happy to send along the short or long versions of these, if you (again, plural, for CRUMB) are interested.
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>>> Given the piece's ongoing transformations around language and dialogue, I love your idea of more re-mixes/mash-ups, and agree that those that are either text- and/or net-based (given the piece's origins) or performed live (given the performative nature of the piece) make the most sense - both formally and conceptually.
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>>> I'm keen to start on that list you mention - or perhaps two lists: one for what to mix with, and one for the form it will take in exhibition? - to see where it can lead. Your suggestions are top notch. Perhaps we can add relational/dialogical art from other trajectories as well: like Liam GIllick's spaces for discussion or Gonzales-Torres' papers to walk away with (ah, no internet, can't look up the names of those pieces!). With the latter, I'm enamored with the ppossibility that people can take something physical away with them, since that's not how we normally think of conceptual work or internet-art (or Wikipedia). Perhaps a pamphlet or sticker, or a file they can download via bluetooth or USB....
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>>> This is all very exciting. Looking forward to more. Best,
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>>> nathaniel
>>> http://nathanielstern.com

My inclination is to continue to mine the thread of hiring actors to reenact the deletion debate, whether remixed with another text or not (rule number 1: exhibition precedent: the one you mention).
Perhaps the other text with which it is remixed could be a text-based work of art from the pre-Internet age (such as a Bruce Nauman Instruction piece... though we could draw up a list which we could vote on) or a text-based work from the Internet age (Douglas Davis's World's Longest Sentence springs to mind, with the same possibility of having a list of suggestions we could vote on).

Then we could have a debate about how to document and exhibit the reenactment of the debate.