Heiko Recktenwald on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:54:41 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> Fwd: Wikipedia challenges "Wikipedia Art"


Reminds to some labelism of GNU in some Gnusomething case. They want to 
keep their label clean. Do you want to be some Elaine Sturtevant? Then I 
would say that,

H.

Andreas Broeckmann schrieb:

> dear scott, friends,
>
> i think that this is a very interesting development in the young
> history of Wikipedia Art; we originally thought that it would be a
> conceptual piece about the rules that define RAW (Reality According to
> Wikipedia); but now it seems that Wikipedia is itself trying to become
> that Reality, and you have to play by its rules, even if you (like
> many of us) thought you had chosen for another reality. i can see a
> battle of apocalyptic proportions on the horizon, between the Empire
> of Wikipedia and the Empire of Google. and then: Exodus.
 <...>


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