The talk will address the questions at the heart of this project. Is the visual aspect of Wikipedia so lacking and dated because it could only use freely licensed images? Or is it that images have to become “historical” to become removed, objective, factual, and therefore applicable to the Wikipedia guidelines? Is the Wikipedia project really inviting visual artists to contribute their work to the commons? Or is visual work inherently less collaborative? As the project evolves it exposes the myths and biases behind these questions and reveals the surprising and complicated dynamics of open culture.

They present the exhibition Crumbs of paradise they curated. It was a collective exhibition commissioned by French institute which took place in Timisoara, Romania. As Julien Choppin and Nicola Delon said, it was a result of collaboration between them, two others young french photographers and two young romanian photographers living in France, so it was kind of cultural exchange as well. Considering they wanted to focus mainly on the meaning of the photography, not the technique, they chose the cheap materials for this particular exhibition- plenty photos were installed on plasterboard (which can be reused later on), fixed just by tapes and explained in handwritten text.

Later on she describes current situation in Latvia as a post-soviet country, where people often feel very isolated, and how they can suddenly realized they are also a part of European market thanks to art. And lastly she mentions here expectations and 22 century vision.