 Hello everyone, how are you doing? Welcome to this session, Wikipedia 20, a collaborative collage. This is a celebration session. Let me introduce myself. I am Mariana Jose Aticabrera. I am a part of the Wikimedia movement. I am a volunteer at Wikimedia Studio Hawaii. And I also participate in the movement as the coordinator of Visible Wiki Women Campaign at HUS Knowledge. I edit Wikipedia and Media Commons since 2012. And I make collage, digital and analog collage since 27. So, let's start. Before I explain how to collaborate in this collage, in this digital collaborative collage, I will tell you some basic things about collage. What is about? As you can see, collage is a way or a technique to assemble different images. You can see there a very classic, very famous collage by Richard Hamilton from the middle 20th century. And collage, it means shows to stick things together. It comes from the world. It comes from a collage in French. And it's a technique of our creation. And the idea is to put together different forms and create something totally new, a new whole thing. This is a definition from Wikipedia that you can find, of course, in the Wikipedia article. And what is digital collage? Because in this session and along all Wikimedia, Wikimedia, sorry, we will do a digital collage together. And the most important idea for me is that we will use these techniques to encourage Chinese association, random associations of different, disparate visual elements and to transform those elements using electronic media, digital media. And that's why we will use Wikimedia Commons as our main resource for this digital collage. In the screen, I am showing Fatima Tugar work, a collared working woman. And this is a digital collage from this American, Nigerian or Nigerian-American artist that she's using these techniques in years. And digital collage is not something new, it's something that many people is doing with Photoshop, Jim and different digital tools. And today we'll learn how to do it online and collaboratively. But before talking about the technique and the resources and how to do it, I want to share with you some ideas about collage. First, this Max Ames quote about what collage means not only as a technique but also as an art. And for me the main idea is how to put together these irreconcilable ideas in appearance, as Max Ames says, that apparently does not suit but based on these strange and irreconcilable images we find something. We do something that makes sense visually in the composition. It's not only about putting together different pieces without any order or any organization. We need to make the magic of collage emerge from this irrational composition in appearance. And another idea about collage that I really love is this idea from Fernando Freitas from Brazil. He says that we do collage because the world is fragmented, there is broken, the effect of photo cameras creates this idea of a fragmented reality and collage is a way to repaste those fragments and to build a new world. That's the idea. That's a kind of fine philosophy behind collage. So what we will do together? First, how a collaborative digital collage looks like. Let me show you a couple of examples from previous workshops that I conducted in other spaces. This is a canvas with different digital pieces put together from different sources by different people trying to do something in real time and looks good. I don't know what do you think, but I think that it will be an interesting and exciting experience to do something similar to this kind of pieces. So to do this, we need some digital media source to collect images. And Wikimedia Commons, as you know, is this huge, very huge digital library that we created in common. It's a platform in which we can browse different collections. And I have just listed some of my favorite categories on Wikimedia Commons to find images for collage. For instance, stumps of the Soviet Union, secondhand shops organized by country, black and white portrait, photographs of actress in theatrical customs, images from the New York Public Library, as you know, several glam institutions share images on Wikimedia Commons. And there are really huge collections in Wikimedia Commons from the public heritage that we can use not only for illustrating Wikimedia but also to do collage. And of course, we can navigate Wikimedia Commons random. There is a link to access a random photograph, a random image, and that's another interesting way to find interesting images for making collage. So how will we work together? There are some rules, some very basic rules I will share, some tools, and I will do a brief demo to show you. The rules. To do this collage, I have started a couple of compositions in a digital online canva. I will show you in a minute. Actually, we have a couple of different options or starting points that you can choose. And then you can add more images. The most important rule is to take those images from Wikimedia Commons. Because Wikimedia Commons is a resource with images from the public domain or under created Commons. So we can use it freely. And so you can collect images from Commons. You can paste it in the collage canvas. And then you can change the size, the position. You can move the images from the background to the front and vice versa. And eventually you can draw and paint because there are some tools for doing that. And an important rule is to include the images attribution. We have a section in our canvas to do that. And don't forget that freely space policies apply for this collaborative collage. Because we will work together and every time when we work together we need to keep in mind this important policy for collaboration. The tools are jump board where the collaborative canvas is. Optionally, if you want to remove the background from an image you can use an online background mover because sometimes we only want a specific area of the image. We need to, for instance, if there is a person and we don't want the landscape around, we only want the person. So in that case, a background mover is useful. This is just a suggestion. And if you know how to use graphic tools like Jim or Krita or Inkscape, you are free. Feel free to use it and to transform your images a bit more before adding the images into the collage canvas. That's all. Let's go to the demo. So I will change to the canvas. This is just a welcome for everybody with the rules. You can see the rules here. And if you go here to the next frame of this jump board, you will see that I have added a couple of images that I took from Wikimedia Commons. And I just started a very simple composition. But you can just take the images and you can move it. You can change the order. You can bring the images to the front. You can do anything. Even you can, for instance, change the size. Oops. You can change the size or even rotate the image. So feel free to do it. Feel free to experiment and to even to copy the images to duplicate. Collage is about rhythm sometimes to have the same images several times creates that kind of rhythm and that's very interesting. There is a clean canvas if you want to start something new. There is another pre-started canvas if you want to continue with this one but with a different background, black in this case. Here we have the images credits. In every Wikimedia Commons page you will see the other the title of the image the other, the license or the public domain information and the link. So I will really appreciate if you add the credits here. You can still create more canvas if you want. I don't know how many people will participate that's why I am the jumbo is open to add new frames if people want to do that. So maybe at the end we will have not only one but three, two and different collage. To search for new images on Wikimedia Commons you can search on Wikimedia Commons for instance I will find birds for instance. And in this case I have recovered the category story. Let's find other things for instance let's let's find another thing OK, another category Sanchans Commons show you a search Sanchans a category So once you have an image you can select the image and you can download it here you can select full resolution or something lower and here you have the title the page URL the information for attribution and let's say that I want to use this one I just download this version I can copy the image and paste it in the in the canvas here it will appear in a second or another option is to download make some change on the image and then upload the image to the canvas there is some delay in the upload in the copy so I will download the image into a folder and then I will remove the background just to show you how to how to do that with this tool in Pixio, once I have the image I just click on apply and the image the tool will process the image and will remove the background I will save the new photo and I will upload it using this little button I will browse my computer I will find the new image without the background and that's all I have a new image here without any background so I can use it for the collage but it's not mandatory to remove the background you can use the image as it is or you can do another operation with the image using for instance or any other graphic tools of your preference so that's the overall idea the canvas is open for everyone during all Wikimania so you can do it now or later or in another day we will do a final edit of the collage and I will share the collage on Wikimedia Commons and if you want to have also an attribution to your work you can also add as here we can add another page and you have the name or the synonymous as others of this collaborative work that's the overall idea so it shows some final words before go to the questions first of all feel free be playful but also be careful images are powerful things images represent not are polysemic things with several different representations at the same time so think about every image use the images carefully with respect for the work of other people but at the same time feel free to make change, to intervene to change the collage show me carefully about for instance not fetishizing things or people or collectives because images are also discourse in a way so just be careful the most important of all this is a celebration let's think on Wikipedia 20 as a celebration and this collage as a tribute of this incredible collaborative work as is Wikipedia Wikimedia and all Wikimedia projects so thank you and I am ready for your questions now ok there are some questions all is clear ok we have some minutes my recommendation for you is to experiment with the collaborative Canva as you as you can see is very intuitive it's all about moving the images changing the size rotating adding new images is if you have experience with Jambor you will find that is pretty easy and the real idea is that even people with a lot of experience using graphic tools can participate and also people with no previous experience that's why I choose Jambor because it's easy you don't need to be registered on Google Drive as an anonymous collaborator if you want as I said before I will be around looking what you are doing also participating in the collage adding new images introducing modification changes and you can participate at any time when you have some free movement when you are a bit tired of listening sessions and maybe you want to do something more just for fun and to be active in the conference in a different way through making art so that's the idea I think that's all if there are not questions now I will be aware about the other path and I will see if there are further questions in the other path so if you start participating in the collage and you have any questions please do the question in the other path I will back later to see if there are any questions that I can solve so thank you very much for listening and thank you very much for participating in this collaborative collage in this art experiment I wish you to have a nice conference and thank you very much for listening and participating