Talk:Marisa Olson

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Marisa says: Hi. I appreciate those who have created and edited this page about me. I know it's not kosher to edit my own page, so I'd like to ask that other members of the community consider making the following edits to this page:

- At this point in my career, I am most known for my Creative Practice. My work as a Curator and Critic are secondary to that, so the order should be rearranged (someone rearranged the order). Fixed-Accosta2

- When asked for a one line description of my work, I usually use this one. It might be helpful:

"Olson's interdisciplinary work incorporates new media, video, performance, drawing, and installation to address the cultural history of technology and the politics of participation in popular culture."

- It might be nice to give specific examples of my better-known or more widely-exhibited works, including "Marisa's American Idol Audition Blog," "Abe and Mo Sing the Blogs," "Black or White," "Golden Oldies," and "Time Capsules." Descriptions of these projects can be found here:

- A current bio for me can always be found here:

- My title at Rhizome has changed. I was previously Editor & Curator at Large and am now Contributing Editor & Columnist. (Perhaps both credits can be listed.). Fixed-Accosta2

- The list of venues at which my work has shown could be updated to include:

The Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou-Paris, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 52nd International Biennale di Venezia, Museum of Modern Art (Sao Paulo), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, Greece), Edith Russ-Haus fur Medienkunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst/ Montevideo, the British Film Institute, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and the Sundance Film Festival.

- The following References could be added:

We Make Money Not Art interview:

NY Arts Magazine interview:

Wall Street Journal, "Even Boring Blogs Are Things of Beauty In Some Artists' Eyes":

Time Out NY Net Results article:

Rhizome Interview:

Thank you!

Marisao (talk) 02:23, 19 February 2009 (UTC)marisao

Editing today Nov 25, 2016
Hi, friendly editors. After someone other than me created this page a decade ago and after years of respecting the idea that subjects should not edit their own pages, I have decided to finally make some FACTUAL updates to this page about me. Please know that I have TONS of respect for the community here, for Wikipedia's history, and for the time that the editors here put into volunteering as editors. I am not a corporation nor an egotistical celeb looking to grandstand. I'm going slow because I'm not a publicist nor a person overly fluent in bb code, so as I make and review each edit, I am seeing that some (let's perhaps call them 'triggerhappy') eagle-eyed folks are swooping in and unraveling or flagging edits before I have time to follow-through with updated citations and corrections. Please give me the benefit of the doubt and do not unwind a paragraph I may be editing as you are deleting, etc. Trust me, I'm my own worst critic and I know all about notability standards (which this article has met for over a decade), link rot, the need for proper sources, etc. I'm on it! :)

Marisasolson (talk) 23:47, 25 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Have you also then read WP:Conflict of interest and WP:Autobiographies? Both clearly apply here, since you're holding yourself out as the subject. —C.Fred (talk) 23:52, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing those! I want to do everything I can to stay on the up and up. I have, however, been the victim of vicious cyberstalking in the past by someone who also victimized me IRL and in general I have been borderline trolled here with people taking it upon themselves to post misinformation about my place of birth, employment history, professional background, and even my ideas as an artist and writer. I hVe no idea who these people are that devote themselves to monitoring and even REposting disinformation and why it matters so much to them, but over the years I have seen that museums, journalists, etc cite my wikipedia bio quite a bit, so while it is comical in some ways to just let it go and see what the internet does on its own, at the same time I would like to be able to have some say in sorting truth from fiction or not having words put in my mouth. It's hard to write about yourself in the 3rd person and NOT sound like a bio or puff piece, but believe me, I am trying to get this right. Marisasolson (talk) 01:13, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
 * You are more than welcome to point out any factual errors on the talk-page. We have strict rules about biographies of living people (including yours). Misinformation is the last thing the encyclopedia needs. Point it out, and I will personally correct it. Based on reliable sources, of course. Kleuske (talk) 01:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Marisa, I'd be happy to help with editing here as an editor who watches several articles in this range of topics (related to internet art) but doesn't have a conflict of interest on this article. The Wikipedia COI rules are pretty frustrating, strict, and hard to navigate since they're really designed for things like people promoting companies instead of scholars/artists just trying to correct their own biographies, while applying in all cases. I'd suggest copying your work on this article into a "draft" page in your own userspace (Help:Userspace draft - such as at User:Marisasolson/Draft) and working on it there until it looks better (with all the things you want to correct and include), and then asking here on this talk page for non-COI editors to review your draft and integrate it into this main article - we can look at it, check your sources, and move it into the article piece by piece as we check it. That way you wouldn't have to run into so many roadblocks with people undoing your work as you work on it. Dreamyshade (talk) 17:06, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Sandbox for Requested Edits Dec 1st 2016
Note: Hello, kind editors. I recently made the mistake of trying to correct some factual errors and update info here myself and inadvertantly unleashed what one might argue is a bit of trollery. In addition to reversions of those edits to the incorrect and/or dated info, the citations I tried to enter to address a "citations needed" flag (which suddenly appeared after a decade) were all deleted. This has gotten a bit aggressive & is frankly hard not to take personally, as my educational credentials, professorial experience, major professional accomplishments, an entire section on my Creative Practice as an artist, and all reference to my publications have been taken out. I feel a bit as if not listing an artist and writer's major shows and texts is like not listing an actor's filmography or a musician's discography. Nonetheless, per feedback from other editors, I am just going to leave here a draft of previous text that I entered so that anyone so inclined can review the references, edit the text as they find to be appropriate per WP guidelines, and migrate it to the article at the appropriate pace. Thank you for your time.

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Draft of the NASTY NETS section that keeps getting hacked:

Olson was a founding member of the Nasty Nets' "Internet Surfing Club", a web-based net art group documenting and remixing their experiences online that inspired the "pro-surfer" genre. Nasty Nets premiered a DVD of their work at the New York Underground Film Festival and had a special installation at the Sundance Film Festival, entitled Endless Pile of Gold CD-R's.

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Draft of CREATIVE PRACTICE section (goes above "Curator and Critic" that keeps getting deleted):

Many of Olson's projects combine different media, such as paint, sculpture, performance, video, sound, or the internet to make statements about the influence of technology on pop culture, politics, the environment, mental health, and gender identity. This work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Whitney Museum, Tate(s) Modern + Liverpool, the Nam June Paik Art Center, British Film Institute, Sundance Film Festival, PERFORMA Biennial, ICP, Samek Museum, Bard CCS, and PS122;     and reviewed in Artforum, Art21, the New York Times, Liberation, the Globe and Mail, Folha de Sao Paolo, Interview Magazine, DIS, and elsewhere.

--- Draft update of CURATOR AND CRITIC, with more references to shows and publications, which keep getting deleted:

She has organized exhibitions and programs at the Guggenheim, SFMOMA, the Getty, Transmediale, White Columns, Artists Space, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and elsewhere, including Rhizome where she was previously Editor and Curator, and SF Camerawork, where she was previously Associate Director. She's written for Wired, Mute, Aperture, Afterimage, The Guardian, Flash Art, ArtReview, Mute, and numerous books. Her writings have been translated and re-published in multiple anthologies, including her book Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her early essays on Postinternet art, a term she coined in 2006.

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Re: TEACHING. (This is currently in the main body of the article, re: visiting artist experience, but teaching text itself was deleted.) Many of my syllabi are out there, visiting artist announcements are out there, bios are on old, often expired faculty pages, but my teaching & visiting artist history is covered on the Creative Time bio that is already linked, so this would be a good way to expand that sentence:

"She has served on the faculty of RISD, NYU, Bard, and has been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, VCU, Oberlin, UT-Austin, UW-Madison, Penn, and elsewhere."

If you want to look up more info, it's the RISD Digital+Media program, the ITP program at NYU, and the Bard summer MFA program (Milton Avery graduate school of the arts).

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Thank you!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marisasolson (talk • contribs) 21:07, 1 December 2016 (UTC)