Diaspora Artists

散居艺术家是埃迪·查尔默斯(一位布里斯托尔的策展人和作家)和分水岭与威斯康星大学创意艺术学院合作开发的一个项目，旨在实现相关视觉艺术档案的在线数字化。该项目的目的是开发一个领先的、独特的布里斯托尔视觉艺术研究和参考设施，专注于许多艺术家从中脱颖而出的多重失望--通过提高作品对在线观众的可及性，为这些艺术家提供支持，并促进他们的作品更多地曝光。该项目是保存和向在线观众提供具有历史和文化意义的材料的独特机会，为英国残障艺术实践的在线展示做出了强有力的贡献，并通过这样做促进了关于文化历史性质的对话。该项目也是对视觉艺术和数字技术，特别是在线存档、可搜索性和受众可获得性的跨部门研究的试验场，并形成了未来在线视觉艺术档案以及发展和吸引在线受众的方法的潜在研究模式。

Diaspora Artists is a project developed between Eddie Chalmers (a Bristol-based curator and writer) and Watershed in partnership with the Faculty of Creative Arts, UWE to enable the online digitalisation of a relevant visual arts archive. The aim of the project is to develop a leading and unique Bristol-based visual arts Research and Reference Facility, with a dedicated focus on the multiple disaporas from which so many artists have emerged – offering support to these artists and facilitating greater exposure of their work, by developing accessibility of the work to online audiences. The project is a unique opportunity to preserve and make available to online audiences material of historical and cultural significance, making a powerful contribution to the online presence of UK based Disaporic Arts practices and in so doing promote dialogue about the nature of cultural history. The project is also a testing ground for cross-sector research into visual arts and digital technologies, and particularly online archiving, searchability and audience accessibility and forms a potential research model for future online visual arts archives and ways of developing and engaging audiences online.