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Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week
Last Saturday, about volunteers in 31 venues around the globe engaged in a collective effort to change the world, one Wikipedia entry at a time.
In the United States, Canada, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, in nonprofits and art schools, in museums and universities, these people—mostly women—set out to write entries, uncredited and unpaid, for the fast-growing crowd-sourced online encyclopedia.
They had answered a call for the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, a massive multinational effort to correct a persistent bias in Wikipedia, which is disproportionally written by and about men.
The event, whose epicenter was the New York art and technology center Eyebeam, is part of a larger movement, only now reaching the art world, to upload content to Wikipedia in a proactive manner.
At a time when Wikipedia is becoming increasingly influential, &#;it’s really tangible to be able to fix something that is visibly wrong,” says Jacqueline Mabey, a co-organizer of Saturday’s Edit-a-Thon with Siân Evans of the Art Libraries Society of North America’s Women and Art Special Interest Group, Michael Mandiberg, an artist and associate professor at CUNY who teach
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War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art
curated by:
Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies
DePaul University
Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American Studies
San Francisco State University
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
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S. King Street Seattle, WA
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 8, @ pm
Join us for the opening reception of War Baby/Love Child on Thursday, August 8. Curators Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis will be in attendance, as will exhibiting artists Louie Gong, Richard Lou, Stuart Gaffney, Jenifer Wofford, and Lori Kay.
You are invited to the pm preview and reception program. Light refreshments will be served. Please send in an RSVP to Maria Martinez or call , ext
pm Open to the public (no RSVP needed). Free admission.
This exhibition brings together works by 19 artists, highlighting different approaches to the identities and experiences of mixed Asian Americans, mixed Pacific Islander Americans and Asian transracial adoptees. While their biographies are varied and often diverge from the dominant stereotypes of mixed Asian identities, their lives are shaped by the specific histories of Asian Pacific-U.S. collisions: narratives o
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