Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook


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The result was   delete. Mojo Hand (talk) 19:32, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook

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No reasonable establishment of notability of the individuals or their collaborations. There are a lot of sources, but most of them appear to be primary sources or small local secondary sources (I'll admit, I did not click all 87 links). The one exception was a brief Washington Post article about Trowbridge (citation #7), but it didn't really do much to establish notability. Googling for sources on Trowbridge, Westbrook, Channel TWo [CH2], Array [ ], and the other projects mentioned in this article did not turn up anything of note. Iago Qnsi (talk) 03:34, 27 February 2016 (UTC) These are the Professors at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and they are the New Media Artists who won the difficult Rhizome Award. Wikipedia:Notability (academics) and Wikipedia:Notability (creatives) Published 2016 Chapter; 1000 Platforms Deepening Teaching, Filimowicz, Michael, ed. Cambridge University Press Published 2016 Featured CH2 interview and project "Find Each Other. Begin there." in book Mueller, Ellen. Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design, Oxford University Press Published Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus College Art Association http://median.newmediacaucus.org/tracing-newmediafeminisms/ Presenters HASTAC 2016 Peer Reviewed http://hastac2016.sched.org/event/6DtJ/critical-of-games-in-an-art-school-context-a-narrative-case-study Presenters FATE 2015 4D Foundations: New Media in an Old Media Classroom Peer Reviewed http://www.foundations-art.org/assets/conferences/fate_program_final.pdf Presenters 2016 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Pioneers of the Prairie Feminist Symposium http://www.saic.edu/150/pioneers-prairie-celebrating-women-new-media-arts Presenters 2012 “Writing Your Own Instructions, New Media Approaches for 2022” MACAA Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Presenters 2011 “Free iPads!?: Scalable Digital Pedagogies” Mobility Shifts, Politics of Digital Culture Symposium, The New School, New York, NY Invited Faculty 2015, 2014 School of the Art Institute of Chicago/Northwestern University DataViz Faculty http://www.saic.edu/academics/areasofstudy/artandscience/datavizcollaborative/ Highly Competitive award 2014 SPACES, R+D http://www.spacesgallery.org/project/ambiguous-redirect Highly Competitive award 2012 Rhizome New Museum Award http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jul/16/rhizome-announces-commissions-2012-grantees/ Highly Competitive award 2011 Turbulence Award http://turbulence.org/project/channel-two-nyc/ WP:CREATIVE Both of these artists are tenured faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA Oxford University Press Interview http://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780190225148/ch5/inter/i5/ Permanent Art Collection The Vault, Media Flat File, SPACES, Cleveland, OH Permanent Art Collection Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University Permanent Art Collection Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors. Both are tenured faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA Original Concept Editors Dynamic Coupling on New Media Art Collaboration. http://median.newmediacaucus.org/fall-2010-v-06-n-02-dynamic-coupling/ The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. Channel TWo projects are exhibited nationally and internationally in curated exhibitions including Blank Arcade: Games out of Joint, DiGRA | Digital Games Research Association, Lüneburg, Germany Stimulus/Response/Affect, Oakland University, Oakland, MI Synthetic Zero, BronxArtSpace; Bronx, NY Traces in the Dark, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA Images Contre Nature, International festival of experimental video, Théâtre des Chartreux, Marseille, France Inverted Normals, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ Blank Arcade, DiGRA | Digital Games Association, Salt Lake City, UT glitChicago, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL Catch Me if You Can, Black Iris, Richmond, VA Designated Drivers, Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH The Vault SPACES, Cleveland, OH Cyber In Securities Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC twohundredfiftysixcolors, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL; and Bell Lightbox Theater, Toronto, ON 404 Not Found, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL Thin Air, Bushwick, New York, NY Designated Drivers, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Darkside of Digital, Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI Risky Business, HTMlles Feminist Festival of Media Arts and Digital Cultures Montréal, Québec Downcast Eyes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Born Digital, Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), Raleigh, NC Scan2Go, College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA Math + Art, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.40.29.3 (talk) 21:05, 29 February 2016 (UTC)


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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:07, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:07, 1 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. Seems like an autobio given that the SPA only has 1 real edit (creating this article) and the enormous mountain of WP:OR. No convincing notability claim. We rarely have "team bios" here at WP. Uncontroversial delete. Agricola44 (talk) 16:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC).
 * Delete. For an article like this, I'd want to see evidence not only that the individual artists are notable but that their collaboration is notable. But among all the WP:Wikipuffery in the article, it's hard to see anything that would pass WP:ARTIST. I don't see in-depth reviews of their collaborative work in major newspapers, for instance, or inclusion in the collections of major museums. And even if it is kept, the article needs to be severely trimmed of its promotional language and badly-sourced content. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:11, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Agricola and David Eppstein have the right policies, but WP:TNT is almost as compelling -- rewriting this would take 10x longer than starting from scratch and given the style of writing, the possibility of copyvio is real as well -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 16:28, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
 * (However, I disagree with that the artists would need to be notable individually as well as as collaborators to get the article as a keep.  Some artists who primarily work together should be considered notable as a pair/group/etc., just as bands can be notable w/o their members being notable, research groups, etc.  Even while deleting I don't want to establish a precedent for this.) -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)


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