[P2P-F] Fwd: Reminder: MADE REAL. An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern

[Michel Bauwens]

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 *Furtherfield presents*


 *MADE REAL** **
**An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, the founders of
Wikipedia Art
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*27 May – 25 June 2011 – 12-5pm*
*Private View: Thursday 26 May 2011, 6.30-9pm*
Furtherfield, Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY

Networks – social, political, physical and digital – are a defining feature
of contemporary life, yet their forms and operations often go unseen and
unnoticed. For this exhibition Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, artists
and co-founders of Wikipedia Art take these networks as their artistic
materials and play-spaces to create artworks about love, power-play and a
new social reality.

Three works are shown for the first time in the UK: *Wikipedia Art*, a
collaborative work “made” of dialogue and social activity; *Given Time*, an
Internet artwork that creates a feedback loop across virtual and actual
space; and *Playing Duchamp*, a one-on-one meeting and game between an
absent artist and viewer/participant.

Contact Alessandra Scapin ale at furtherfield.org

+44 (0) 2088022827

Free admission to exhibition and events
http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibition/made-real


*Wikipedia Art* by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern

*‘**if you claim something to be true and enough people agree with you, it
becomes true.’* Steve Colbert on Wikiality

*'I now pronounce Wikipedia Art ... It’s alive! Alive!'* Kildall and Stern

Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern famously used Wikipedia as an artistic
platform, creating a collaborative project that explores and challenges our
understanding of how knowledge is formed and disseminated. For over a year
they planned the initiation of *Wikipedia Art*, a socially generated artwork
that exploits a feedback loop in Wikipedia’s citation mechanism. Here, a
"word war" across blogs, interviews and the mainstream press, which involved
Wikipedians, artists, journalists, lawyers and even the Wikimedia Foundation
itself, continuously defined and transformed a work of art in much the same
way that these categories define the discourses of the everyday.

*'We ask our potential collaborators – online communities of bloggers,
artists and instigators – to exploit the shortcomings of the Wiki through
performance.'* Kildall and Stern

(Often unwitting) collaborators 'performed' the work through a debate about
its aesthetic, conceptual and legal legitimacy in over 300 texts in over 15
languages on the Internet via blogs and forums such as Rhizome and Slashdot,
and in the press including the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian UK.

This exhibition charts the inception, birth, life, death and resurrection of
*Wikipedia Art*, which questions the authoritative role of Wikipedia, and
reveals its fallibility whilst debating the control of access to and
creation of knowledge.

*Wikipedia Art *featured in the Internet Pavilion of the Venice Biennale
2009. In 2011 it was an awarded finalist at the Transmediale festival in
Berlin.


 Also showing in this exhibition

*Given Time* by Nathaniel Stern
Furtherfield presents Stern's polar projections of Second Life lovers.
Second life is a 3D simulated and virtual world, inhabited daily by
thousands of people around the globe. To access Second Life, you must embody
an avatar (a virtual human representation of yourself), seeing what they see
through a computer screen. Stern places us, and his lovers, in a feedback
loop between virtual and actual space.

In *Given Time*, two life-sized and hand-drawn avatars simultaneously stare
longingly across their virtual pond, and the real world gallery floor. They
hover in mid-air, almost completely still, supported by the gentle sounds of
their breath, the wind blowing, and birds in the far off distance. The
viewer is both the observer and participant of this reciprocal relationship.
Through the bodies and eyes of another, we see, look and are seen. Stern
says: "Here, an intimate exchange between dual, virtual bodies is
transformed into a public meditation on human relationships, bodily
mortality, and time’s inevitable flow."

*Playing Duchamp* by Scott Kildall
The American artist Scott Kildall, exhibiting for the first time in the UK,
has fused the two worlds of art and chess in an homage to Marcel Duchamp,
chess master and artist recognised for shifting the paradigm of conceptual
art. Using the recorded matches of Duchamp's 72 tournament games, Kildall
has modified an open source chess engine to play chess as if it were Marcel
Duchamp. By sitting down to this game of computer chess, visitors interact
with the ghost of Marcel Duchamp, whose love for chess rivalled his
attraction to art.

Furtherfield invites you to come and play because as Duchamp said:* “**The
creative act is not performed by the artists alone”.*


 Events

*Going the distance for fine dining with global friends*
To accompany this exhibition, in June, Furtherfield will be hosting two
telematic dinner parties with the aim to create a co-presence dining
experience with our remote friends mediated by digital technologies (network
connections, projections, laptops and sonified objects). As food is the
greatest mediator, we aspire to a satisfying remote connection through the
frame of the dining experience.
Contact ale at furtherfield.org for details on how to become a dinner guest.


 About the Artists

*Scott Kildall*
Scott Kildall is cross-disciplinary artist working with video, installation,
prints, sculpture and performance. He gathers material from the public realm
to perform interventions into various concepts of space.

Scott has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Philosophy from Brown University
and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
through the Art & Technology Studies Department. He has exhibited his work
internationally in galleries and museums and received fellowships, awards
and residencies from organisations including the Kala Art Institute, The
Banff Centre for the Arts, Turbulence.org and Eyebeam Art + Technology
Center.

Scott is a founding member of Second Front — the first performance art group
in Second Life. He is an artist-in-residence at Recology San Francisco. He
currently resides in San Francisco.

More information: *www.kildall.com* <http://kildall.com/>

*Nathaniel Stern*
Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa) is an experimental installation and
video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and
collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive
environments, mixed reality art and multimedia physical theatre
performances, to digital and traditional printmaking, concrete sculpture and
slam poetry.

Nathaniel has held solo exhibitions at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johnson
Museum of Art, Museum of Wisconsin Art, University of the Witwatersrand,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and several commercial and experimental
galleries throughout the US, South Africa and Europe. His work has been
shown at festivals, galleries and museums internationally, including the
Venice Biennale, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, International Symposium
for Electronic Art, Transmediale, South African National Gallery,
International Print Center New York, Milwaukee Art Museum and more. He is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

More information: *http://nathanielstern.com* <http://nathanielstern.com/>

*Download** **Wikipedia Art: Citation as Performative Act **(Creative
Commons licensed) at** **
http://wikipediaart.org/Citation-as-Performative-Act.pdf*<http://wikipediaart.org/Citation-as-Performative-Act.pdf>

by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, to be included as a chapter in ’
Wikipedia: Critical Point of View. Eds. Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz.
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (University of Amsterdam), 2011.
Forthcoming Print.

Furtherfield, Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY, +44
(0) 2088022827

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