Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary Art

For this subject please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts.

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1 Scope and Goals
2 Participants
3 Participants Personal Outlines
4 Ran DeBord.
5 Things you can do
6 Articles needing attention
7 Templates

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.

For articles on Contemporary Art Scenes in specific countries, please go to International Contemporary Art Scenes

Participants

Participants Personal Outlines

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

Ran DeBord.

Artist born in the United States in 1957 developed the concept of a new contemporary art form that was termed "Dripism." {link} [http://www.dripism.com

Like his distant relative, Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle), Debord approached his artform from a radical perspective, working with Latex paint on horizontally mounted Lexan panels. Sunrises and sunsets are his main subject matter. http://dripism.com/html/carlsbad3nm.html http://dripism.com/html/dotssunset.html Videos may be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dripism&search_type=

Ian Drysdale

Darrel Stadlen

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

Tyrenius

Contemporary UK art. I have worked on Turner Prize, Young British Artists (including Damien Hirst, Stuckism and other related articles, as well as more general articles, such as Conceptual art, and a template for Young British Artists. Tyrenius 18:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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

Art4Humanists

Art4humanists is a creation of the artist Mark Faraday. Welcome. Currently Mark Faraday is active as a visual contemporary artist. Mark Faraday is prepresented by Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York City, and will be having an exhibition in April 2007 in New York. The websites which have examples of works are 1)www.chelseaartgalleries.com and www.amsterdamwhitneygallery.com and www.markfaraday.blogspot.com

Freshacconci

Hey. I'm focused on contemporary art in general, and Canadian art and media and film art in particular, with an interest in Modern Art history (1850-1970) as well.

Wickethewok

I've taken a couple college courses in new media art (video, performance, feminist stuff). I do mainly bios, as some of the theory stuff goes over my head. I've gotten a couple of electronic music bio articles up to FA and would like to do the same with some of the contemporary art bios (Carolee Schneemann, Lynda Benglis, Paul McCarthy, etc).

Infiniteawe

I'm an undergraduate in Art History at the University of Maryland. Right now I'm interested in working on the contemporary art article. Since much of my focus is actually on the art market, I'd like to focus on creating an article there.

Reza Pirooz Far

Researcher at TU-Berlin in architecture and urbanism, Berlin, Germany

Related to the issue or any urban and architectural topics, you can contact me root@thinkingarchitecture.net I'm very interested in this program and excited about the issue which was fully expected to hear. Fingers Crossed.

www.thinkingarchitecture.net

S.dedalus

I’m an art student and composer. My interests lie primarily in music, conceptual art, and literature.

Things you can do

A list of articles to improve:

Articles where notability needs to be established: Eero Yli-Vakkuri - Allan Linder - Bill Jackson (photographer)
Articles with no or few links to them: Igor Stromajer - Rob Scholte - Lucas Samaltanos-Ferrier - James McKendry – Little Warsaw – Kourouniotis – Nicolas Frespech – Annette du Plessis
Articles that read like resumes or advertisements: Carola Unterberger-Probst - Ken Rinaldo - Wladyslaw Kazmierczak - Terry Ananny
Articles needing to be wikified, or rewritten in a more appropriate tone: Betty Beaumont - Yinka Shonibare - Alexander Rappoport – Shirin Neshat – Aleksandra Mir – Saülo Mercader
Articles needing references: Alice Anderson - Allen Ruppersberg – Rachel Rosenthal – Pietro Psaier – Nam June Paik – Luna Nera – Andrzej Jerzy Lech – Jonathan Kearney – Alejandro Fischer

Once problems have been dealt with please remove the appropriate tag from the article, and remove from the list.

Articles needing attention

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

Former Featured Article candidate, needs work on:

Campbell's Soup Cans

Templates

What to type What it makes What it's for {{ContemporaryArtProject}}
Talk This article is part of WikiProject Contemporary 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)

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