The Chengdu Biennale and Wikipedia Art Information

Conference theme: Use of new and emerging technologies in Digital Art, Data, Scientific and Creative Visualisation, Digitally Enhanced Reality and Everyware, 2D and 3D Imaging, Display and Printing, Mobile Applications, Museums and Collections, Music, Performing arts, and Technologies, Open Source and Technologies, Preservation of Digital Visual Culture, Virtual Cultural Heritage, Ethical Issues, Historical Issues, Digital Culture, Artificial Intelligence, NFTs

Conference date: 4–8 July 2022

Keywords: Chengdu Biennale, Chinese art, Contemporary art, Digital culture, Wikimedia, Wikipedia

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This paper explores aspects of the Chengdu Biennale (especially during 2021–22) and online art information associated with the arts in Chengdu, the historic capital city of Sichuan, a province of China. Specifically, some aspects of creating Wikimedia resources for cultural activities in China are covered, using Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata online facilities. A set of Chengdu arts-related Wikipedia pages have been created, together with the addition of associated photographs and metadata. Some of the problems of providing such resources are covered, including language and access issues. The information may be useful for others attempting similar projects.

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Jonathan P. Bowen: http://www.jpbowen.com

Huan Fan

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Publication date: July 2022

Publication date (Print): July 2022

Pages: 111-118

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[0001]London South Bank University

London, UK

[0002]Sichuan University

Chengdu

China

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.23

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2022

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 4–8 July 2022

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

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[1] Biennial Foundation (2021) Chengdu Biennale. URL: https://www.biennialfoundation.org/biennials/ chengdu-biennale-china/

[2] J. P. Bowen (2020) A personal view of EVA London: Past, present, future. In Weinelet al(2020), pp. 8–15. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[3] J. P. Bowen and J. Angus (2006) Museums and Wikipedia. In D. Bearman and J. Trant (eds.), MW2006: Museums and the Web 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 22–25 March 2006. Archives & Museum Informatics, 2006. URL: https://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/bowen/ bowen.html

[4] J. P. Bowen and T. Giannini (2014) Digitalism: The new realism? In K. NgJ. P. Bowen, and S. McDaid (eds.), EVA London 2014: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing, pp. 324–331. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[5] J. P. Bowen and T. Giannini (2021) Digitality: A reality check. In Weinelet al(2021), pp. 12–19. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[6] Chengdu Biennale Organization Committee (2021) 2021 Chengdu Biennale 成都双年展. (In Chinese.) URL: http://www.chengdubiennale.art

[7] Creative Commons (2022) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

[8] H. Fan (2019) The new “Theatricality” in performance and media arts. In Weinelet al(2019), pp. 274–275. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[9] H. Fan (2020) The spectator fulfilling the concept of liveness. In Weinelet al(2020), pp. 363–364. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[10] J. Gardiner (2021) Chengdu Biennale – Superfusion – Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China, 9 November 2021. URL: https://jeremygardiner.co.uk/2021/11/09/chengdubiennale-superfusion-chengdu-museum-of-contemporary-art-china/

[11] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (eds.) (2019a) Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research. Springer, Series on Cultural Computing. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[12] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2019b) Digital culture. In Giannini & Bowen (eds.) (2019a), chapter 1, pp. 3–26. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[13] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2019c) Museums and digitalism. In Giannini & Bowen (eds.) (2019a), chapter 2, pp. 27–46. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[14] S. Harrison (2019) Why China Has Blocked Wikipedia in All Languages. The Wire, India. https://thewire.in/tech/china-wikipedia-censorship-tiananmen-square

[15] X LiM. Thelwell, and E. Mohammadi (2021) How are encyclopedias cited in academic research? Wikipedia, Britannica, Baidu Baike, and Scholarpedia. Profesional de la Información, 30(5):e300508. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[16] P. Lü and H. He (2012) 2011 Chengdu Biennale – Changing vistas: Creative duration. Edizioni Charta Srl. ISBN 978-8881588350.

[17] Weibo (2021) 成都画院 [Chengdu Art Academy]. Weibo.com. (In Chinese.) URL: https://weibo.com/zhijishi

[18] J WeinelJ. P. BowenA. Borda, and G. Diprose (eds.) (2021) EVA London 2021: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC). ScienceOpen. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[19] J WeinelJ. P. BowenG. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds.) (2019) EVA London 2019: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[20] J WeinelJ. P. BowenG. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds.) (2020) EVA London 2020: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. DOI: [Cross Ref]

[21] A. Weiwei (2021) 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A memoir. The Bodley Head. (Translated by A. H. Barr.)

[22] Wikidata (2022) Chengdu Biennale (Q11074639). URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11074639

[23] Wikimedia (2022) Category: Chengdu Biennale. Wikimedia Commons. URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chen gdu_Biennale

[24] Wikipedia (2022a) Baidu Baike. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Baike

[25] Wikipedia (2022b) Category: Arts in Chengdu. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arts_in_Chen gdu

[26] Wikipedia (2022c) Chengdu Biennale. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_Biennale

[27] Wikipedia (2022d) 成都双年展 [Chengdu Biennale]. (In Chinese.) URL: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki 成都双年展

[28] E. Yang and M. E. Roberts (2021) Censorship of Online Encyclopedias: Implications for NLP Models. FAccT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, March 2021, pp. 537–548. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445916

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