06 September 2008

Peer Creation


Creating Wikiart
I created a blog http://wikiartists.us/ to invite people in all walks of life to become wikiartists by participating in the creation of a web-enabled peer-produced artwork. The blog URL is www.wikiartists.us – not .com, not .org, not .net – but .us – us – we the people interacting with each other through the web, crossing borders and honoring cultures different from our own.

MERIWIP: MEditerranean RIm WIkiart Project
My first project, MERIWIP: MEditerranean RIm WIkiart Project, invites people living in the 21 countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea (Spain, France, Monaco, Malta, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco) to be wikiartists by collaborating in creating a work of wikiart.

Peer Participation
Participants from the 21 Med Rim countries are invited to send a wedding photograph with the first names of the bride and groom and the city and country in which they live. They e-mail the picture as a JPG file and the information about the couple to art@wikiartists.us. The wedding pictures are posted on the blog http://www.wikiartists.us in the geographical order of the countries as they surround the Sea.

As a second step, participants e-mail a photograph of flowers that grow in their country as a wedding gift to a couple from another Med Rim country. The flower picture with the country’s name is posted next to the receiving couple.

Mulitform Unity
MERIWIP creates a dynamic interchange between people living in the Med Rim countries promoting good will and unity – not the unity of the uniform, but multiform unity in which
the distinctive culture of each country is honored. Marriage is an archetype of multiform unity, a loving unification that respects diversity. At its best, it creates a vibrant harmony between two singular people of different sexes, life experiences, cognitive styles, and viewpoints. It is a model for bringing peaceful relationships between to the rich variety of peoples and nations surrounding the Sea.

Communication/Collaboration/Cooperation
My wikiart project is inspired by YASMIN’s call for projects to advance communication, collaboration, and cooperation between these 21 countries. YASMIN is an Internet community
that promotes art-science-technology interactions around the Mediterranean Rim.

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