Digital community art

Digital Community Art is a recent development of public art practice tat features a coming together of the fields digital art and Community art. If differs from the nascent field of Digital Public Art in that it considers audience as a collaborative and productive element in the creation of the work, which is in contrast to some Public Digital artworks which have been seen to uphold earlier traditions of formal Public art featuring an explicit separation of artwork and audience .
Digital Community Art has therefore employed some of the methodologies of New Genre Public Art (NGPA) which evolved as a reaction to modernist public art of the late 60's and 70's , a practice that came to be referred to colloquially as Plop Art. This coming together of technology and community art/socially engaged practices has been termed by some as social engaged new media art (SENMA) . Terms such as socially engaged new media art (SENMA) go some towards defining this field, but are restrictive around technology and political focus, perhaps a better working comes from a open ended interpretation of creativity and technology as advocated by writers such as David Gauntlet .
Works which might usefully be classified as Digital Community Art are:
* The TenantSpin project in Liverpool
* Telephone Trottoire (Congolese for "Pavement Radio")] by Graham Harwood (2006) http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/949/
* Landscape-Portrait] by Kevin Carter (2007-2011) http://www.Landscape-Portrait.com

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