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Open Source and Collaborative Writing of History

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

After a workshop Nis Rømer and Gillion Grantsaan improves the concept for writing and organizing articles on Wikipedia as art in public and private spaces.

Nis Rømer & Gillion Grantsaan gave a workshop at KUA, Copenhagen university Amager on Open Source and collaborative historywriting. The discussion from the participating art history student was on power structures. Who are administrators, why was this article on the garden in Peder Lykke Centeret suggested deleted or moved. Why do we do this, do we get anything out of it?

After discussing the outcome of our work, we realized it gave a lot of opportunities we didn’t expect a year ago. An article on public art at in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, had been broken up into what is notable on an online free encyklopedia. Some of that left out was more about publict art. So the local art in public (article written in danish) should make sense to art in public in general (article written in english). It means we can start working on a detail, which might be considered notable.

Also we decided to write a bit more about Kai Nielsens Blågårdsplads, and some playgrounds Gillion showed us at Nørrebro. Find available media and get legal permission to publish it under the local license at Wikimedia. Later on we will work on how it is part of public and private spaces. I imagine it is specially through workshops and guided tours we can develop the project from this point. We dont use private and public spaces as functions, but rather as meeting places where we meet other interests, where we don’t know what will happen.

There was one thing we didnt clear out. The workshop was aimed at art historians, mediators in danish. It could be a priority to work with an aim towards the institutional. However art can also be about anything else, and appear in public space. Do we only aim for renegotiations of some consensus within the art sphere? I am afraid it’s not precise to identify the project in opposition to everything outside the imagined white room. The opportunity we got to think of a difference to the idea of art in public came from a wikipedian admin. Im not sure if we ought to deal with mediated reality as either consensus or agonistic.

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play with them mosaic

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

in september Andrew Paterson presented some thoughts on creative actions in online spaces. We began to meet over skype and visit a few places later on, to see the posibilities for critical self organizing. One of them is habbo hotel. Andrew suggested our talks could develop into a club about public and private spaces.

And now i’m working on a spreadsheet for inviting people to come and join. Here’s a rss feed for the planning site. Join the club by using the spreadsheet, post ideas for spaces to explore. You can be a member by listening and talking.

Some of our other projects also deals with these matters. Andrews work with public and private online spaces, and gave a course, on among other things how these places and platforms can work as boundary objects for activism. My agenda comes from recent and ongoing projects, Wikipedia as meeting place for the institution of art, wikipedians and public space, flash 7 games also playable for the Wii browser, available in public and private spaces, and also  Call for EULA’s, where everybody can make their own end user license. The meeting between different types of users and inhabitants as platform for art at Wikipedia is a group project being developed with Nis Rømer and Gillion Grantsaan at the moment. We arrange walks, workshops and research for new articles. The focus so far has been on public art, we also need to take care of the meeting between wikipedians, readers, appropriation artists and one timers. The projects uses geo information, gmaps, gdocs and wave to organize and link to videos and photos, here from a tour in southern Ørestad. In relation to the club, one of my colleagues may be interested in talking about transition towns at skype, while we write an article about it, for a different language, and see if it’s notable for a public encyclopedia. Metaplace.com closes in january (Metaplace Inc. goes on). It was really good to see how a MMO could work as flash 10 browser gameworlds created by the players(sign the petition). Unfortunately this kind of creativity didn’t work out. Inworld value drives the economics, and the small world i made was not much of a game, just navigating. Game mechanics is perhaps more interesting in places like Kongregate, or the iphone App store. From our point of view as newbies, creativity in casual games or Free-to-play/ Play for free is maybe played in a browser, in a sort of more public place? People who are not into participation in games or other social online places, could maybe be interested in these temporary groups. The mobile server could be fun to play with. Almost ten year old software for an old windows ce can work as a temporary server and playground. Similarly I hope we can open for suggestions for spaces to learn about.

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Art of the Overhead

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Art of the Overhead is a Festival in Malmø May 21 – 30. It’s the 4th time Linda Hilfling and Kristoffer Gansing organize the festival. Below an installation shot of their Archive of Overheads.

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Slides from my last exam is at the bottom right. Here’s a link for a PDF with the program for the festival.

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wikipedia public art

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

I have been working on a concept about Wikipedia as a space for public art. First it was my last project at the IT-university of Copenhagen. Later i got the opportunity to continue working on the concept. Im really happy for that, since it’s a really central concept of trying to work with and create new spaces at the limits of what we consider art. There’s some ethical issues around it, but after that’s been dealt with i having the opportunity to work with these issues.

First off i went to visit some of my relatives, because it turned out one of them over the years had developed a huge private archive of art. It was begun before computers were a common thing, so it’s all done in the old library way. It looks really good. So if he want’s to go to some city, mostly in Denmark, he can look it up, and see, hmm i would like to see this public art on the way. If all this information was available at Wikipedia we could all do that. So this archive is an inspiration to what information about public art can be used to. GPS coordinates would make sculptures and other work acccessible in the public, both at Wikipedia and other related networks, like Google maps and different location services. At gmaps you can toggle Wikipedia content, along with pictures and videos with GPS info from users of Panoramio and Youtube, so it’s really public.
Yesterday i finished a short report in collaboration with Nis Rømer about what we would like to do. Also we’re looking forward to Gillion Grantsaan getting back from Africa. The concept is about how art practice can work out as articles and guided walks or tours online. And it’s a series of short concepts, depending on a temporary groupwork, so it’s not just about my ideas of combining network. I’m looking forward to see how it works out if we can continue working on it.

I’m not sure, but i have the impression that some people related to the art world could consider this project a devaluation of art. Maybe so. One of the things about art that comes to the surface in my talks around Boom Pearls is that a more nuanced understanding of art is present in Berlin where i have some of the talks, than in Copenhagen and Denmark, where art online isn’t such a big thing. Off course there’s a difference between different kinds of art. The Real Shit of some people isn’t the same to others, and then suddenly value changes, and RS is worth millions. If you could take the money issue out of it, it would be more about appropriation. In The Real Shit project it’s within the art world, and about building up careers, some kind of heritance i guess. When you go out of the art world, it’s also a matter of how to get back. So i also consider these projects to be building small bridges between different areas or networks and relating different spaces to each other. It’s possible other’s don’t like it. In Denmark we’re only 5 million people speaking the same language (or is it more today). So we have less experience within the language projects of Wikipedias. Local subjects from Los Angeles with 30 years of history that’s notable in the english Wikipedia can be difficult to relate to danish art history and language. Then it can be difficult to explain some projects as important because they may be academically brilliant within one context, but to other people, there’s no codes available to understand it.  So i hope our work can help to improve what’s notable. One issue could be art with political content. It may be a matter of rhetorics, to make it notable in Denmark today. Today i read a blogpost about a project that’s against the danish terror law, which makes it illegal to put up a few posters or even some stickers, if the police thinks it disturbs traffic, the projects suggests to get rid of the law. The danish terror law is somehow within political consensus. Maybe this isn’t notable at Wikipedia for other cathegorical reasons, but i hope that the governing consensus of the danish language project doesn’t rule out projects because the language is to small to provide a historical context for art outside the art world.

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