Wiki Loves Art
Around the start of 2018, WCM were approached by Blitz to participate in the Art & Feminism project. We immediately developed the idea for this activity to form part of on-going initiatives around Wiki Loves Art, particularly relating to the documentation of the Fondazzjoni Kreattività art collection, coordinated by the M3P Foundation.
A number of sessions relating to creating and editing pages on Wikipedia and the M3P wiki about visual arts in Malta will be held within the Wiki Loves Art programme during February and March 2018. A public discussion about Wiki Loves Art which introduces the mechanics of the wiki platform and its value as a way to document visual arts in Malta will take place on 15 February, followed by two focused edit-a-thon sessions in March that will guide contributors to take a hands-on approach to editing wiki pages relating to the visual arts. During this period, an exhibition of artworks that form part of a related research project at Spazju Kreattiv will be held at St James Cavalier.
Talks
Art+Feminism talk by Flora Katz @ Blitz, Valletta
Friday 9th February, 19:00 – 21:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/2011080279168785/
Art+Feminism is an international project aimed at improving Wikipedia content on women and the arts and to encourage women’s participation in the online encyclopaedia. Flora Katz – a curator, art critic and organiser of three wiki edit-a-thons in Paris – will present a talk on the 2017 Paris edition and discuss some of the issues at the core of the project, such as how art and Wikipedia can be a driving force to gather a community and act upon feminist issues, and what is at stake in the elaboration of an activist and co-creative project within artistic institutions.
Wiki Information Session
Space A, St James Cavalier, Valletta
Thursday 15th February, 15:30 – 18:30
During the opening day of the "Art from the Fondazzjoni Kreattività Collection: Documenting 2007-2012" exhibition, St James Cavalier will host an information session to discuss how Wikipedia and wiki technology can be used to document the local visual art scene in Malta. In coordination with Wikimedia Community Malta and the M3P Foundation, Dr Toni Sant will explain how wikis can be used to catalogue art works and exhibitions, and act as a collaborative encyclopaedia of artist biographies that will preserve artists’ legacies in the long term.
Edit-a-thons
Edit-a-thon: Wiki Loves Art
Space A, St James Cavalier, Valletta
Friday 2nd March and Saturday 3rd March, 15:30 – 18:00
This hands-on wiki edit-a-thon, led by Dr Toni Sant and representatives from Wikimedia Community Malta and the M3P Foundation, guides attendees how to edit wiki pages about the visual arts scene in Malta. We are particularly eager for artists to attend, edit pages about themselves, their work and their exhibitions over the years. We also encourage you to bring along any printed or digital media files that would help document art works, such as copies of exhibition flyers, photographs of events, etc. Please also bring a laptop computer or tablet device!
Edit-a-thon: Art+Feminism, Art in the Arena of Activism
Blitz, Valletta
Friday 9th March and Saturday 10th March, ?? – ??
As part of the Art+Feminism project, Blitz is hosting a wiki edit-a-thon across two days to bring together people who are interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia to create new articles and improve existing content about women and the arts. This hands-on event will be facilitated by Wikimedia Community Malta and the M3P Foundation. Please bring a laptop computer or tablet device!
Exhibitions
Art from the Fondazzjoni Kreattività Collection: Documenting 2007 - 2012 @ Space A, St James Cavalier, Valletta
Thursday 15th February - Sunday 18th March
https://www.facebook.com/events/398511793902984/
This exhibition follows on from the research project which commenced in January 2016 to compile a detailed catalogue of the Fondazzjoni Kreattività Art Collection, currently stored at St James Cavalier. The first exhibition of work from this project occurred in 2017, featuring works that were displayed at St James Cavalier between 2000 and 2006. The second exhibition from this project, held between February and March 2018, features artwork dating from the period 2007 to 2012.
Apart from exhibiting the actual works of art, the project identifies and documents important elements that remain after a creative project has been exhibited to the public: proposals, press releases, artist profiles, photos, reviews, posters, videos, and other material can provide an indication of the significant context in which the works of art were originally presented. This material can also help researchers better understand the artwork itself, as well as the work of the artist in a broader cultural spectrum.
This ongoing project makes use of workshops and open discussions to help document the artwork held in Fondazzjoni Kreattività’s collection, as well as to document the Maltese visual arts scene more broadly. This project is set to be completed in 2020 as part of the Fondazzjoni Kreattività’s 20th Anniversary celebrations.
- Europeana Art History Challenge - 2016
- Peace Treaties in Art 30x30 Challenge - 2016
- Edit-a-thon on art and cultural heritage in Malta - 2017 (in collaboration with the Gabriel Caruana Foundation)
