Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/New Museum Art+Feminism

JOIN US ONLINE for an afternoon of workshops, readings, and talks by artists, community organizers, and scholars on the occasion of an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

PROGRAM LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/newmuseum/artfeminismwikipedia-edit-a-thon

1 PM INTRO + CYBERNETICS LIBRARY

2:30 PM PRESS PRESS

4 PM MINDY SEU

JOIN THE CONVERSATION with editors on Art+Feminism's Slack channel to get tips from seasoned editors and join in on the conversation. SLACK: https://app.slack.com/client/T28DT5AKW/GV54WQM97 or email us at publicprograms@newmuseum.org



Program details
By expanding articles for feminist figures across the gender spectrum, Art+Feminism’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thons seek to address the structural underrepresentation of women, non-binary people, people of color, and Indigenous people on Wikipedia, the internet’s largest and most globally used free encyclopedia, the editors of which are predominantly cis and male. Art+Feminism provides tools and training for new Wikipedia editors, and organizes gatherings that support this work and enrich the ideas that drive it.

Interdisciplinary publishing collective Press Press will explore the paradoxical nature of online cultural production for women of color, according to which visibility can pose risks and authorship often goes unrecognized. By tracing the erasure of young black women from their own creative labor—even as their cultural output is virally disseminated online—Press Press collective members, including writer and restorative practices specialist Bilphena Yahwon, multidisciplinary artist and digital archivist Bomin Jeon, and graphic designer Valentina Cabezas advance ethics of acknowledgement in contrast to the pervasive cultural amnesia of the digital sphere.

Designer and researcher Mindy Seu will discuss her current work on the Cyberfeminist Catalog and its digital companion the Cyberfeminist Index, an open-source, open-access, and crowd-sourced online database documenting the development of cyberfeminism, with an emphasis on intersectional and non-Western definitions and practices. Emerging in the 1990s as a counterpoint to the exclusion of women from discussions of then-nascent internet, cyberfeminist thinkers embraced the liberatory potential of cyberspace as a vehicle for interrogating oppressive constructs of gender, sex, and race. By focusing on the global nature of the cyberfeminist movement, the Cyberfeminist Index provides a vital counterpoint to dominant Western-centric histories, foregrounding critical inflections across geographic regions.

The program will be accompanied by a pop-up library of books and digital resources curated by the Cybernetics Library collective that expand on the themes and histories of cyberfeminist figures nominated for Wiki editing, as well as a virtual library of digital writings published by Press Press.

We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to bring a laptop and join us for an afternoon of public programs, coffee, snacks, and work sessions devoted to updating Wikipedia pages! Wikipedia training will be provided throughout the day. This public program is free to attend, registration is required. Please register via the online form. Please register via the online form.