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Subject: Reminder: MADE REAL. An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern<br>To: <br><br><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 48pt;" size="7"><span style="font-weight: normal;">MADE REAL</span></font></font></b><b>�</b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 26pt;" size="6"><b><br>
</b></font></font><b><font face="GillSans Light,
sans-serif">An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel
Stern, the founders of Wikipedia Art<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><b>27 May � 25 June 2011 �
12-5pm</b></font><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><br>
</font><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Private
View: Thursday 26 May 2011, 6.30-9pm</font></b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><br>
Furtherfield, Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd,
London N4 1NY<br>
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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.<br>
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Three works are shown for the first time in the UK: </font><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Wikipedia Art</font></i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">, a collaborative work �made�
of dialogue and social activity; </font><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Given Time</font></i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">, an Internet artwork that
creates a feedback loop across virtual and actual space; and </font><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Playing Duchamp</font></i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">, a one-on-one meeting and
game between an absent artist and viewer/participant.<br>
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Contact Alessandra Scapin <a href="mailto:ale@furtherfield.org" target="_blank">ale@furtherfield.org</a> </font>
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and events<br>
<a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibition/made-real" target="_blank">http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibition/made-real</a><br>
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</font><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font size="4"><i>Wikipedia Art</i></font></font></b> <font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font size="4">by Scott
Kildall and Nathaniel Stern</font></font> <font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><br>
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</font><i>�</i><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">if
you claim something to be true and enough people agree with
you, it becomes true.�</font></i> <font face="GillSans
Light, sans-serif">Steve Colbert on Wikiality<br>
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</font><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">'I now
pronounce Wikipedia Art ... It�s alive! Alive!'</font></i> <font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Kildall and Stern<br>
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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 </font><i><font face="GillSans Light,
sans-serif">Wikipedia Art</font></i><font face="GillSans
Light, sans-serif">, 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.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">'We ask our potential
collaborators � online communities of bloggers, artists and
instigators � to exploit the shortcomings of the Wiki through
performance.'</font></i> <font face="GillSans Light,
sans-serif">Kildall and Stern<br>
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(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.<br>
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This exhibition charts the inception, birth, life, death and
resurrection of </font><i><font face="GillSans Light,
sans-serif">Wikipedia Art</font></i><font face="GillSans
Light, sans-serif">, which questions the authoritative role of
Wikipedia, and reveals its fallibility whilst debating the
control of access to and creation of knowledge.<br>
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</font><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Wikipedia Art�</font></i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">featured in the Internet
Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2009. In 2011 it was an awarded
finalist at the Transmediale festival in Berlin.</font></p>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.56cm;"> <font face="GillSans
Light, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Also
showing in this exhibition</font></font></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font size="4"><i>Given Time</i></font></font></b>
<font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font size="4">by
Nathaniel Stern<br>
</font></font><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">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. </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">In </font><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Given Time</font></i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">, 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."</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><i><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>Playing
Duchamp</b></font></font></i> <font face="GillSans
Light, sans-serif"><font size="4">by Scott Kildall</font></font><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><br>
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. <br>
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Furtherfield invites you to come and play because as Duchamp
said:</font><i> �</i><i><font face="GillSans Light,
sans-serif">The creative act is not performed by the artists
alone�.</font></i></p>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.56cm;"> <font face="GillSans
Light, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Events</font></font></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Going the distance for fine
dining with global friends</font></b><font face="GillSans
Light, sans-serif"><br>
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. <br>
Contact <a href="mailto:ale@furtherfield.org" target="_blank">ale@furtherfield.org</a>
for details on how to become a dinner guest.</font></p>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.56cm;"> <font face="GillSans
Light, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">About
the Artists</font></font></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font size="4">Scott Kildall</font></font></b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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More information: </font><a href="http://kildall.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><u>www.kildall.com</u></font></font></a><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><br>
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</font><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font size="4">Nathaniel Stern</font></font></b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><font size="4"><br>
</font></font><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">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. <br>
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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.<br>
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More information: </font><a href="http://nathanielstern.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><u>http://nathanielstern.com</u></font></font></a><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><br>
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</font><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Download</span></font></b><b>
</b><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">Wikipedia
Art: Citation as Performative Act </font></b><b><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Creative Commons licensed) at</span></font></b><b>
</b><a href="http://wikipediaart.org/Citation-as-Performative-Act.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif"><u>http://wikipediaart.org/Citation-as-Performative-Act.pdf</u></font></font></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.56cm;"><font face="GillSans Light, sans-serif">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.<br>
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