Submissions/Wikipedia Illustrated
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- Title of the submission
Wikipedia Illustrated
- Type of submission
Workshop + presentation
- Author of the submission
Galia Offri & Mushon Zer-Aviv
- E-mail address
imagine@wikipediaillustrated.org
- Country of origin
Israel
- Affiliation
- Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
- Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract
While we celebrate the explosion of open source software and collaborative projects like Wikipedia, visual art has not enjoyed similar levels of passionate and generous online contribution. Open Culture has developed inspiring text-based collaborative models, but has yet to develop successful models for open collaboration on visual culture. Wikipedia Illustrated seeks to develop such models. Through a book featuring 26 illustrated articles, a blog that follows the production, a set of workshops and open academic assignments we hope to develop a methodology for contributing creative-commons licensed illustrations to Wikipedia.
The project presentation and the creative workshop will address the questions at the heart of this project. Is the visual aspect of Wikipedia so lacking and dated because it could only use freely licensed images? Or is it that images have to become "historical" to become removed, objective, factual, and therefore applicable to the Wikipedia guidelines? Is the Wikipedia project really inviting visual artists to contribute their work to the commons? Or is visual work inherently less collaborative? As the project evolves it exposes the myths and biases behind these questions and reveals the surprising and complicated dynamics of Open Culture.
- Track
Wiki Culture and the Community
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Yes.
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Summary of Wikipedia Illustrated participation (workshop, presentation, panel) in Transmediale festival, Berlin 2011
http://www.wikipediaillustrated.org/meta/transmediale-was-great
- Radio interview for S*P*A*R*K.fm (on the Reboot.fm radio station, Berlin)
http://reboot.fm/2011/02/25/sparkfm-9-openfree-culture-post-activism-talk/
- Video interview for A New Day's Work
http://anewdayswork.com/2011/02/wikipedia-illustrated/
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