Digital Art Museum

[Digital Art Museum]

Digital Art can be traced back many decades, Vera Molnar created "Computer Arts avant la lettre" in the 1950s and was awarded the d.velope digital art award [ddaa] in 2005. Wolfgang Lieser recognised this early history could be lost and so in 1997 started the Digital Art Museum aiming to become the world's leading online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art.

Long before web frameworks, using my experience of successful projects, I created the museum as a few static pages. It grew into a database backed app to manage the growing number of artists. Following the end of an arrangement with the Colville Place Gallery in London Wolfgang and development moved back to Berlin, the site was converted to a static one to preserve the historic aspect. The code for the animated artists phase 1 and 2 timelines is still working as intended and remains as it was in 2008.

The design focussed on the artists and each artist had a landing page. This was key to getting buy in and many artists jointly promoted themselves with the the museum - a Win:Win for everyone.

The Digital Art Museum lives on in Germany https://dam.org/