Art + Feminism

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Video of an Art + Feminism-Edit-a-thon, Museum of Modern Art 2015 (6 min.)

Art + Feminism , in German  " Art and Feminism " , is an edit-a-thon ( collaborative writing or editing marathon) with the aim of adding content to Wikipedia about women in art and empowering women to work on Wikipedia. It was first launched in New York in 2014 and takes place around the world every year around International Women's Day in March.

Initiators

Art + Feminism 2017 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Art + Feminism 2015 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Art + Feminism 2016 in Istanbul
Art + Feminism Workshop in Accra 2017
Art + Feminism 2015 at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Michael Mandiberg, Sian Evans, Jacqueline Mabey (2016)

The idea for Art + Feminism arose from a project about women and art that the librarian Siân Evans conceived for the Art Libraries Society of North America , a training institute for librarians. Her co-curator, Jacqueline Mabey, had attended a 2013 Wikipedia edit-a-thon event where articles about women in science, technology, math, and engineering were written or improved in honor of Ada Lovelace . They approached Michael Mandiberg, an artist and professor at the City University of New York who integrates Wikipedia into the classroom, and contacted the art historian and curator Laurel Ptak. The team was strengthened by Dorothy Howard, a Wikipedian in residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, and Richard Knipel, representative of the local Wikipedia community in New York City.

target

Edit-a-thons for Wikipedia aim u. a. Aims to improve visibility and exposure about women, minorities, the LGBTQ community and other groups underrepresented on Wikipedia. Experienced users introduce new volunteers to the rules and syntax for editing content. According to a 2011 study by the Wikimedia Foundation , despite the supposedly egalitarian format of the Wikipedia website, more than ninety percent of its contributors are male. Less than five percent of superusers - people with more than five hundred edits under their names - are women. The Art + Feminism project combats this “well-documented gender discrepancy in Wikipedia” by inviting and supporting women as well as providing the spatial and technical resources to gradually improve reporting on women in art. On the occasion of the invitation to the fourth event in the Museum of Modern Art in 2017, the organizers declared: “Wikipedia is something that belongs to all of us. It is not a privately held resource, its contents are not motivated by the whims of an owner. If a government sticks to alternative facts , improving Wikipedia's reliability and completeness is an important act of everyday resistance. "

Events

The team of initiators and committed women and men from the fields of art and culture organized Art + Feminism with professional institutions such as art museums, in particular the Museum of Modern Art in New York in cooperation with universities such as Stanford , Berkeley and Cornell , financially supported by the Wikimedia Foundation . Art + Feminism taught the participants best practices for editing a Wikipedia page. The lesson plan was created with open source . Since 2014, 480 events have taken place on six continents, including Australia, Canada , Cambodia , India , New Zealand , and many European countries.

The 2015 International Women's Day Writing Marathon at the Museum of Modern Art was conducted simultaneously in satellite sessions in more than 70 locations worldwide, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . The Galeries Lafayette Foundation hosted a two-day Art + Feminism writing marathon in Paris in 2014, '15 and '16 . In March 2016, the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London organized the writing marathon to make female artists in the museum's collection visible online for future generations. Other participating locations included a. the Smithsonian American Art Museum , the Uffizi Gallery in Florence , the National Archives in Paris, the Royal Academy of Arts , the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth , the Philadelphia Museum of Art , the Carnegie Museum of Art , the Ashesi University of Berekuso in Accra ( Ghana ), the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington) . In 2016, an Art + Feminism workshop at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum followed in New York .

The content that participants in the editing event created was recorded in a coordination forum on Wikipedia.

Results

In 2014, Art + Feminism's inaugural campaign in New York drew 600 volunteers to 30 separate events. 101 new entries were created, which differ in scope and quality, and 80 existing ones were expanded. In 2016 there were 1500 pages that were edited and 2000 that were newly created in 175 events. By 2017, 2,500 volunteers had written or developed and improved 6,500 articles on women in the arts. The new biographies range from the Australian modernists Ethel Spowers and Dorrit Black , the Brazilian constructivist Lygia Clark to the Catalan painter Josefa Texidor i Torres and the contemporary artists Xaviera Simmons , Monika Bravo and the Afro-American sculptor Senga Nengudi .

reception

The project has been described by Art News as "a strong, multinational achievement", "which seeks to correct the hard-to-break tendency of Wikipedia that is disproportionately made by and about men".

Foreign Policy magazine selected the initiators of Art + Feminism Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Laurel Ptak, Dorothy Howard and Richard Knipel as one of the 100 “leading global thinkers” in 2014 because they corrected the gender gap in Wikipedia to have.

According to Katherine Maher , Art + Feminism was the most successful of Wikipedia's edit-a-thon events.

On Artnet , Sarah Cascone emphasized that the world's largest art institutions have organized Art + Feminism editing marathons as well as alternative organizations such as the Open Foundation West Africa in Accra and Transgender Europe in Berlin.

publication

  • Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg: Editing for Equality: The Outcomes of the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons. In: Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America. Volume 34, No. 2, Fall 2015, pp. 194–203 (English; doi: 10.1086 / 683380 ).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Issie Lapowsky: Meet the Editors Fighting Racism and Sexism on Wikipedia , Wired Magazin, May 3, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Jennifer Schuessler: MoMA to Host Wikipedia Editing Marathon, to Improve Coverage of Women in the Arts , The New York Times. March 6, 2015
  4. Jump up ↑ Talia Lavin: A Feminist Edit-a-Thon Seeks to Reshape Wikipedia , The New Yorker, March 11, 2016
  5. ↑ MoMA Hosts Fourth Annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon , Artforum art magazine , February 9, 2017
  6. ^ Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon , Berkley Center of New Media, March 21, 2017
  7. ^ Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2017 . Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
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  9. ↑ Where are all the Australian feminist writers on Wiki? Retrieved August 27, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Celebrating women's success? There's a wiki for that. In: winnipegfreepress.com. Retrieved August 27, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Horng Pengly: Wiki activists help to write Cambodian women's history. March 6, 2015, accessed August 27, 2016 .
  12. ^ Edit-a-thon for women to bridge Wikimedia gender gap. In: Deccan Herald. Retrieved August 27, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Wikipedia Editathon Art + Feminism , Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai, April 29, 2017
  14. ↑ Blessed are the 'geeks' shaping history. In: Stuff. Retrieved August 27, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Bob Malcolm: Dundee to join in global feminism arts campaign. In: Deadline News. March 5, 2015, accessed August 27, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Basel women play with Wikipedia's inglorious gender gap , TagesWoche , March 4, 2016
  17. ↑ Editathon Art + Feminism, un marathon artistique en faveur des femmes , Le Quotidien de l'Art, March 6, 2015
  18. ↑ Reduce gender inequalities by arts and feminism on Wikipedia , Metropolis M, March 3, 2017
  19. ^ Tell the stories of women artists on Wikipedia , tate.org
  20. ↑ Hannah Ghorashi: Art + Feminism Announces Third Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Art News, February 11, 2016
  21. ↑ a b c Art + Feminism's 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Adds 334 Articles on Female Artists. In: ARTnews. Retrieved August 27, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Breaking Records at Art + Feminism's Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon , Creators.Vice.com, April 18, 2016
  23. ^ A b Sarah Cascone: Narrowing Gender Gap, Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Writes 6,500 More Women Into Art History , Artnet News, April 8, 2017
  24. ↑ a b 101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week. In: ARTnews. Retrieved August 27, 2016 .
  25. ^ The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 - Foreign Policy. Retrieved August 27, 2016 .