Digital image archives as public artwork and community engagement

Abstract

This paper focuses on two recent projects developed by the author in which social media and conceptual art strategies were adopted to present alternative ways of exploring the production and dissemination of digital archives. Projects for this examination are: EK Modernism (eknewtown.com) – an archive of over 8000 digital images used to map and conceptualise Scotland’s first New Town of East Kilbride, and Glocal (glocal.ca) – an open source and collaborative global community project that evolved into a live-projection media presentation at the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.

The author further explores how different social geographies were captured through digital photography to create the digital image archives forming both these projects and how these archives opened new channels as public ‘net’ artworks and as platforms for cultural and community engagement.

Contributors

Sylvia Grace Borda

Conference

Publication date: July 2010

Publication date (Print): July 2010

Pages: 206-211

Affiliations

Senior Lecturer in Photography and Digital Imaging

University of Salford

Peru Street, Salford, M3 6EQ, United Kingdom

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2010.31

Copyright statement: © Sylvia Grace Borda. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010), London, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 5 - 7 July 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing