In November 2010 curator Artur Żmijewski announced an Open Call to artists from all over the world, asking them to send in artistic material as part of the research of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Following the aim to include all of the more than 5,000 submissions in the exhibition we developed in collaboration with Berlin-based media activist Pit Schultz an open, non-commercial platform: ArtWiki, an open data initiative for the arts. In response to the overwhelming reaction to the Open Call, all those who sent materials have been invited to become artists of the digital venue of the 7th Berlin Biennale.
ArtWiki.org will start with the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art as an open platform for artists to share artist biographies as a free and open historiography for contemporary art. ArtWiki.org will start with the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art as an open platform for artists to share artist biographies as a free and open historiography for contemporary art.
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