User:Spinster
|
|
Art historian, graduated with a master thesis on Internet-based art in 1997, and open content adept. I work as an archivist in a non-profit electronic art organization in the Netherlands. My contributions focus mainly on (artistic) photography, architecture and contemporary art, since these subjects are still quite underdeveloped on Wikipedia. Biographies and categorization are things I like to do. I also try to focus on non-American and non-technical subjects... ;-)
Other interests and hobbies include: environmentalism, copyright, international politics, open source and free software, world music, world literature, science fiction, fantasy, strategy games, travel. I'd like to learn more about world history, economics, fashion design, buddhism and law.
- Spinster (http://www.spinster.be/) - personal homepage
Update, September 2004: I haven't been editing much the last few months, due to reasons related to the heated debate on quality control on Wikipedia. I've felt quite demotivated by the lots of rubbish and self-promotion edited into contemporary culture-related articles. For such subjects, there's not such a thing as "verifyable truth" -- authority (ahem) is more important there. (Frankly, I'm quite a supporter of the implementation of a reputation system because of that.) But there's been a lot of good editing in this area as well lately, so I hope I'll be able to put myself together and go on with it soon.
Helpful pages
To do list - pages to start and/or improve
- Barbara Kruger
- Belgium -- the culture part -- and Culture of Belgium - because Belgium is sooooo much more than beer, chocolate, fries and Eddy Merckx....
- Car sharing
- Design classic
- documenta - complete pages about the several documentas + participating artists
- Franz West
- Inez van Lamsweerde
- Martin Kippenberger
- Mecanoo
- MVRDV
- Preservation
- Rineke Dijkstra
- and a host of other contemporary Dutch, Belgian, European, African contemporary artists and architects.