Thursday, February 6, 2014
At first I was like, that's cool, then I read the by-line: "The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was an international initiative to bring women's voices to the online encyclopedia--as editors and as subjects" and I was like, nevermind, that's awesome! This project intervenes in a number of patriarchival social formations simultaneously: women become active and vocal as Wikipedia editors (who are predominantly men), they increase their representation in art history (also mostly written by, and about, men) and they engage technology in a collaborative way (when women are still underrepresented in STEM fields). Cool.
Read more on Artnews.