A Personal View of EVA London: Past, Present, Future

I first encountered EVA London in 1995 through my establishment of the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library. In 2003, I was invited back as a keynote speaker on the subject of website accessibility for cultural heritage resources. Since then I have been involved with every EVA London conference either as an author or since 2007 as a proceedings editor. This paper summarises the developments of the EVA London conference over the past 25 years from a personal viewpoint and celebrates the 30th anniversary of EVA London and the whole family of international EVA conferences. The development of the community around EVA (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts) is evaluated in the context of a Community of Practice. The paper also considers possible future directions for EVA.

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

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 8-15

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.2

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] A BelerA BordaJ. P BowenS Filippini-Fantoni 2004 The building of online communities: An approach for learning organizations, with a particular focus on the museum sector Hemsley 2004 2.1 2.15 https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0409055 15 March 2020

[2] J. P Bowen 1995a Exhibitions in the ether The Times Higher Education Supplement Multimedia features xii 10 March

[3] J. P Bowen 1995b The Virtual Library of museums G Day Proc. Museum Collections and the Information Superhighway 37 39 Science Museum London 10 May http://web.archive.org/web/19990120003322/www.nmsi.ac.uk/infosh/bowen.htm 20 January 1999

[4] J. P Bowen 1995c Collections of collections Museums Journal 95 8 24 25 August

[5] J. P Bowen 1995d The World Wide Web Virtual Library of museums Information Services & Use 15 4 317 324 October [Cross Ref] Hemsley 1995 105 114 27 July

[6] J. P Bowen 1997 The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp): Whence and whither? MW97: Museums and the Web 1997 https://www.museumsandtheweb.com/biblio/the_virtual_library_museums_pages_vlmp_whence_and_whi.html 7 March 2020

[7] J. P Bowen 2003 Web access to cultural heritage for the disabled Hemsley 2003 s1 1 11 https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0307068 15 March 2020

[8] J. P BowenG DiproseN Lambert 2016 EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 12–14 July ISBN:978-1-78017-344-3 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

[9] J. P BowenG DiproseN Lambert 2017 EVA London 2017: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 10–13 July ISBN:978-1-78017-399-3 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

[10] J. P BowenS DunnK Ng 2011 EVA London 2011: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 6–8 July ISBN 978-1-906124-88-5

[11] J. P BowenT Giannini 2014 Digitalism: The new realism? Ng 2014 324 331 [Cross Ref]

[12] J. P BowenT Giannini 2016 From analogue to digital in literature and art Bowen 2016 1 4 [Cross Ref]

[13] J. P BowenT GianniniR AraA LomasJ Siefring 2019 States of Begin: Art and identity in digital space and time Weinel 2019 1 9 [Cross Ref]

[14] J. P BowenT GianniniG Polmeer 2017 Coded communication: Digital senses and aesthetics, merging art and life Bowen 2017 1 8 [Cross Ref]

[15] J. P BowenT GianniniG PolmeerR FalconerA. I MillerS Dunn 2020 Computational Culture and AI: Challenging human identity and curatorial practice Weinel 2020

[16] J. P BowenT GianniniG PolmeerC GannisJ GardinerJ KearneyB WandsJ Weinel 2018a States of Begin: Art and identity in digital space and time Bowen 2018c 1 7 [Cross Ref]

[17] J. P BowenS KeeneL MacDonald 2007 EVA London 2007 Conference Proceedings London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK 11–13 July ISBN:0-9543146-8-9

[18] J. P BowenS KeeneK Ng 2013 Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture Springer, Series on Cultural Computing [Cross Ref]

[19] J. P BowenJ WeinelG DiproseN Lambert 2018 EVA London 2018: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 9–13 July ISBN:978-1-78017-454-9 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

[20] S DunnJ. P BowenK Ng 2012 EVA London 2012: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 10–12 July ISBN:978-1-78017-159-3 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

[21] S DunnS KeeneG MallenJ. P Bowen 2008 EVA London 2008: Conference Proceedings BCS London, UK 22–24 July ISBN 978-1-906124-07-6

[22] S Filippini-FantoniJ. P Bowen 2005 Can small museums develop compelling, educational and accessible web resources? The case of Accademia Carrara Hemsley 2005 18.1 18.14 https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0508066 15 March 2020

[23] G GaiaS BoianoJ. P BowenA Borda 2020 Museum websites of the first wave: The rise of the virtual museum Weinel 2020

[24] T Giannini 2013 Visualizing Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Visual Heritage website Ng 2013 9 16 [Cross Ref]

[25] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2015 Galois connections: Mathematics, art, and archives Ng 2015 176 191 [Cross Ref]

[26] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2016 Curating digital life and culture: Art and information Bowen 2016 237 244 [Cross Ref]

[27] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2017 Life in code and digits: When Shannon met Turing Bowen 2017 51 58 [Cross Ref]

[28] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2018 Of museums and digital culture: A landscape view Bowen 2018 172 179 [Cross Ref]

[29] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2019a Museums and Digital Culture: New perspectives and research Springer, Series on Cultural Computing [Cross Ref]

[30] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2019c Art and Activism at museums in a post-digital world Weinel 2019 27 35 [Cross Ref]

[31] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2020 Computing the Future: Digital encounters in art and science when da Vinci meets Turing Weinel 2020 J Hemsley 1995 EVA’95: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts Conference Proceedings Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery London, UK 27 July ISBN:0-9519980-7-2 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A9780951998076 15 March 2020

[32] J Hemsley 2013 The EVA London Conference 1990– 2012: Personal reflections Bowen 2013 1 5 [Cross Ref]

[33] J HemsleyV CappelliniG Stanke 2003 EVA 2003 London Conference Proceedings University College London UK 22–26 July ISBN:0-9-543146-3-8

[34] J HemsleyV CappelliniG Stanke 2004 EVA 2004 London Conference Proceedings University College London UK 26–31 July ISBN:0-9543146-4-6

[35] J HemsleyV CappelliniG Stanke 2005 EVA 2005 London Conference Proceedings University College London UK 25–29 July ISBN:0-9543146-6-2

[36] J HemsleyS KeeneL MacDonaldJ. P BowenV CappelliniG Stanke 2006 EVA 2006 London Conference Proceedings University College London UK 26–28 July ISBN:0-9543146-7-0

[37] A LiuJ. P Bowen 2011 Creating online collaborative environments for museums: A case study of a museum wiki International Journal of Web Based Communities 7 4 407 428 [Cross Ref]

[38] K NgJ.P BowenN Lambert 2015 EVA London 2015: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 7–9 July ISBN:978-1-78017-316-0 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

[39] K NgJ.P BowenS McDaid 2013 EVA London 2013: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 29–31 July ISBN:978-1-78017-215-6 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

[40] K NgJ.P BowenS McDaid 2014 EVA London 2014: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 8–10 July ISBN:978-1-78017-285-9 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

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[44] A SealS KeeneJ. P Bowen 2009 EVA London 2009: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS London, UK 6–8 July ISBN 978-1-906124-17-5

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[46] A ShemzaM AlmenaO Gingrich 2019 Art in Flux at Event Two Weinel 2019 172 173 [Cross Ref]

[47] J WeinelJ. P BowenG DiproseN Lambert 2019 EVA London 2019: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 8–12 July ISBN:978-1-78017-522-5 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

[48] J WeinelJ. P BowenG DiproseN Lambert 2020 EVA London 2020: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) London, UK 6–10 July ISBN:978-1-78017-538-6 ScienceOpen [Cross Ref]

[49] E Wenger Communities of practice: Development stages http://esflive.archiv.zsi.at/files/CoP_development_stages.pdf 9 March 2019

[50] E Wenger-TraynerB Wenger-Trayner 2015 Introduction to communities of practice: A brief overview of the concept and its uses https://wengertrayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/ 9 March 2019

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