V&A Digital Futures

{{Short description|Series of digital arts events by the V&A}}

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File:Jeremy Gardiner at V&A Digital Futures, EVA London 2016 conference.jpg with his exhibit of the Jurassic Coast at the V&A Digital Futures event organized as part of the EVA London 2016 conference, held at the BCS offices in London, England on 11 July 2016.]]

V&A Digital Futures is a series of events organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the area of digital art.

Digital Futures events are organized by Irini Papadimitriou of the V&A,{{cite web| url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/author/irini-papadimitriou | title=Irini Papadimitriou | publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum | location=UK | access-date=31 October 2016 }} who started the events in 2012,{{cite web| url=http://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/blog/15/06/14/interview-irini-papadimitriou/ | title=A Tale of Two Cities: Digital Futures UKMX | work=Creative Economy | publisher=British Council | date=14 June 2015 | access-date=31 October 2016 }} some at the V&A museum itself{{cite web| url=http://flaneur.me.uk/04/va-digital-futures-dreaming-zero-waste-the-art-of-fixing-electronics-in-europe-and-africa/ | title=V&A Digital Futures : Dreaming Zero Waste: The art of fixing electronics in Europe and Africa | website=flaneur.me.uk | author=Flaneur | location=UK | access-date=31 October 2016 }} and some elsewhere around London especially{{cite web| url=https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=8946 | title=Friction and Fiction: IP, Copyright and Digital Futures | publisher=Goldsmiths University of London | date=26 September 2015 | access-date=31 October 2016 }} but also elsewhere in the United Kingdom.{{cite web| url=http://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/blog/15/05/24/digital-futures-ukmx-labs-weekend-19-20th-june/ | title=Digital Futures UKMX labs weekend – 19–20th June | work=Creative Economy | publisher=British Council | date=24 May 2015 | access-date=31 October 2016 }} Some Digital Futures events have been held in conjunction with the annual EVA London conference.{{citation| contribution=V & A Digital Futures meets EVA London | editor-first1=Kia | editor-last1=Ng | editor-first2=Jonathan P. | editor-last2=Bowen | editor-first3=Nicholas | editor-last3=Lambert | editor-link2=Jonathan Bowen | title=EVA London 2015 Conference Proceedings | place=London, UK | series=Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) | publisher=BCS | date=2015 | pages=1–16 | doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2015.0 | contribution-url=http://ewic.bcs.org/category/18483#v&a | url=http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2015 }}{{cite web | url=http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2016/programme/digital-futures | title=Digital Futures | publisher=EVA London | location=UK | date=2016 | access-date=31 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031212350/http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2016/programme/digital-futures | archive-date=31 October 2016 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}{{citation| contribution=Digital Futures: Exhibits at EVA London 2018 | author-first1=Irini | author-last1=Papadimitriou | author-first2=Jonathan P. | author-last2=Bowen | author-link2=Jonathan Bowen | editor-first1=Jonathan | editor-last1=Bowen | editor1-link=Jonathan Bowen | editor-first2=Jon | editor-last2=Weinel | editor-first3=Graham | editor-last3=Diprose | editor3-link=Graham Diprose | editor-first4=Nicholas | editor-last4=Lambert | title=EVA London 2018: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts | place=London, UK | series=Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) | publisher=BCS | date=2018 | pages=41–42 | doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.8 | doi-access=free }} There are some associated publications.{{cite web| url=http://www.sbosch.com/filter/print/V-A-Digital-Futures | title=Crafting our Digital Futures | website=www.sbosch.com | access-date=31 October 2016 }}

The V&A museum has a significant collection of computer art.{{cite web| url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?limit=45&before-adbc=AD&category%5B0%5D=1337 | title=Computer Art | work=Collections | publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum | location=UK | access-date=31 October 2016 }}