Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary Art

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Contents 1 Scope and Goals 1.1 Pages in Scope 2 Project Outline 3 Participants 4 Participants Personal Outlines 4.1 Ian Drysdale 4.2 Darrel Stadlen 4.3 Selina Apostol 4.4 Tyrenius 4.5 Samantha Rugge-Price 4.6 Art4Humanists 5 Articles needing attention 6 Templates

[edit] Scope and Goals

Fine or visual arts is one of Wikipedia’s comparatively weakest subject areas and content about contemporary art, in particular, is scarce. Many potential ‘expert’ contributors – artists, theorists, critics, etc. seem to want to use Wikipedia, but in a manner that tends to conflict with its encyclopaedic function and neutral point of view.

At the time of writing, entries on contemporary art tend to be stubby, inaccurate, and to have sections put in that seem to be motivated heavily by an anti-postmodernist or anti-academic slant. It is not our goal to ignore the controversy that still surrounds contemporary art, but to help collect that controversy in coherent sections of relevent articles on general topics within postmodernism, and to give a sense of the larger debate. Ideally, resources on contemporary art within Wikipedia will be useful both for a generalist who is seeking to better understand contemporary work in the humanities, and by, say, a first year graduate student looking for a resource to help stay afloat in an intro theory class. To this end, we need contributors ranging from people working professionally in the field of contemporary art to laymen who can point out that we've descended into hopeless jargon.

[edit] Pages in Scope

• Strategies
• Collaboration
• Attribution
• Aesthetics
• Contemporary art
• Context
• Ethics
• Ethnography
• Interpretation
• Practice
• Representation
• Work or Work (fine arts)
• New Media Art
• Openness
• Organization
• Community
• The Practice of Everyday Life

[edit] Project Outline

Outline agreed upon by participants I really recommend the PBS.org website. They have a series on contemporary art called ART 21. I think this would be a good starting point on our participants discussion on contemporary art.-Art4Humanists

[edit] Participants

• Ian Drysdale
• Darrel Stadlen
• Selina Apostol
• Tyrenius
• Wootking
• Mark Faraday

[edit] Participants Personal Outlines

Space for particular interests, outline of contributions, pages in progress, wanted pages being proposed to existing contributors and area for suggestions ...

[edit] Ian Drysdale

[edit] Darrel Stadlen

[edit] Selina Apostol

The Practice of Everyday Life

Hi, Selina, I think "The Practice" really misses much of what is happening in contemporary art. What I mean is "The Practice" overloads on theory, and the personal experience with art is lost. I feel a better starting point for our discussions is we all take a look at PBS.org website and check out their series on ART 21, and have a discussion about what happens there.-Art4Humanists

[edit] Tyrenius

Contemporary UK art

[edit] Samantha Rugge-Price

Although i'm no scholar in contemporary art, i'm particularly interested in the potential possibilities of this project. We need you to create a community for contemporary art, make it active and make this project a place where people can share thoughts on artists, exhibitions, art tours, or individual pieces.

Hi, Samantha, I really recommend the PBS.org website, click on their ART 21 and I think it is a great way to begin discussions on contemporary art. -Art4Humanists

[edit] Art4Humanists

Welcome. To introduce myself my degrees are in art history and studio fine art. Currently I am active as a visual artist, more to the point I am a contemporary artist of the post modern era, an american, who paints, oil on canvas, represented by a gallery in New York City; I will be having an exhibition in December of this year in Chicago. You are all invited. Please see my user page for discussion or email me at: art4humanists@operamail.com

[edit] Articles needing attention

Please help to clean up these articles (and remove when done):

• Aleksander Balos

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{ContemporaryArtStub}} Talk	A good starting point in understanding contemporary art is to log on to the PBS.org website and view there series ART 21.	The official stub for Contempoary Art related articles.
{{ContemporaryArtProject}} Talk	This article is part of WikiProject Contemporay Art, an attempt to build a comprehensive, detailed and exciting guide to contemporary art on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.	The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.

New art stubs are being proposed and voted on over in stubs this week Goldenrowley 01:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)