[spectre] Daniel Rigal of Wikipedia responds to Wikipedia Art show...

[marc garrett]

Daniel Rigal of Wikipedia responds to Wikipedia Art show...

A good response by Daniel Rigal of Wikipedia, about our latest show MADE 
REAL by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern at Furtherfield Gallery in London.

"LOL. I can't believe that people are still interested in this. It all 
seems a bit, well, silly. I would have liked to have seen them use the 
MediaWiki software (on their own website) as a platform for 
collaborative art rather than focus on an aspect that seems to be little 
more than a provocation or a stunt, with no obvious actual artwork 
resulting. I know a lot of great artists have enjoyed pulling stunts but 
it takes more than a few stunts to be be a great artist. I guess I 
should be seeing this more in a performance art context, where the 
nature of the actual artwork can be elusive. If it is on the wall of an 
actual art gallery then I can hardly say it isn't art without sounding 
like one of the twits who complained about Carl Andre, and I wouldn't 
want that. ;-) It will be interesting to hear what other people make of 
it. No promises, but I might try to drop by the gallery myself and see 
it all in context. --DanielRigal (talk) 20:59, 26 May 2011 (UTC)" 
http://ht.ly/53GXF

More about the show:
http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibition/made-real