[spectre] THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART WELCOMES SCHOLARS

[Oliver Grau]

ADA INVITES SCHOLARS TO SET UP THEIR PROFILES AND 
ENTER THE ARCHIVE AS CONTENT CONTRIBUTORS 

www.digitalartarchive.at 

The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA), the most advanced online
archive for digital art, expands its scope of documentation by
including scholars to the database. 

Scholars are invited to become members of the online community 
and set up their ADA profile! 

EXCHANGE WITH PEERS AND SHARE YOUR RESEARCH WITH THE
COMMUNITY
Community members have the possibility to upload publications 
and PDF’s, announce upcoming events, post comments throughout
the database, document exhibitions, conferences and other relevant 
events. 

COLLABORATIVE ANALYSIS AND PROACTIVE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
With the support of two large international grants, the archive has
been transferred into a Web 2.0 environment. The aim is to provide 
community features and user-oriented applications to enable a 
collective scientific exchange between artists, researchers, engineers

and the public to foster interdisciplinary and global collaborative 
analysis through a proactive process of knowledge transfer. ADA 
supports cross-referenced links between entries in Artist, Event,
Institution, Literature, Scholar and Work.

Community features allow active exchange of professional information
with peers. The new “Light box” tool facilitates the examination
and 
comparison of various image phenomena for teaching and research 
purposes. 

To ensure a high academic standard, five published articles and/or 
curated exhibitions are required for scholars to become members of 
the ADA community. Interested scholars may apply for an account here:
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html 

THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS
Since its foundation in 1999, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART 
(former Database of Virtual Art) has grown to be the most important
online archive for digital art. In cooperation with established media 
artists, researchers and institutions it has been documenting the
rapidly
evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a
decade
and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the 
intersection of art, science and technology. 

ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, 
Suzanne ANKER, Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, 
Maurice BENAYOUN,Paolo CIRIO, Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & 
STRAUSS, Masaki FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG, Agnes HEGEDÜS,
Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON,Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken RINALDO,
KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN, 
Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, 
David ROKEBY, Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS,

SOMMERER & MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON &
CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL, et al.

ADVISORY BOARD: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, 
Gunalan NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.


ADA team:
Prof. Dr. Oliver GRAU 
Michaela SEISER (Editor, Community Admin)
Sebastian HALLER, Viola RÜHSE, Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN
(Editorial Team)

digitalart.editor at donau-uni.ac.at 

www.digitalartarchive.at