CHArt Seventeenth Annual Conference

Suzette Worden and Dew Harrison, University of the West of England, UK
Digital Arts On[the]line

This paper will consider recent trends in the digital arts through an examination of projects associated with the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK.

Electric December, an online advent calendar, is now in its third year and is a project that promotes local interests and explores the ways in which creativity can be part of a community building process in a specific region. In this talk we will examine how the project has evolved over three years, technically and through its social agenda.

We will also present the outcomes of a call for contributions to an online exhibition of digital arts. Net_Working is an exhibition of web works by national and international artists currently online and on view in Watershed's Digital Café. The call brought a response from over 300 artists. How the work has been chosen and categorised for the user, as well as an indication of the range of work available will be presented. This projects will be compared to a previous exhibition, held in November 2000 at the same venue. During the intervening period Watershed has developed new strategies for the presentation and introduction of online work to its visitors. How these examples contribute to our understanding of changes in the curation of digital arts will be the subject of the final section of the presentation.

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