Exhibiting - how traditional?

Existing sites linking to, collecting, or associating, digital works follow patterns that largely reflect contemporary internet technology and styles. Common techniques include the use of tags, visitor comments and the potential to vote or influence measures. The result is that the sites appear more like archives and less like exhibitions. Admittedly common blog and wiki paradigms might be a familiar approach for internet users, but they detract from the notion of an exhibition with works positioned purposefully in a specific context/architecture.

One objective of Liquid would be to focus upon an exhibition of works as opposed to a collating or recording of works. This point applies the works themselves which should be primary and easily identified, as opposed to being defined by something like their "project page". Thinking back to more traditional exhibits, the work itself is core, only after viewers encounter it may they find the title and artist, and finally perhaps in the catalogue or bookshop find out more about the work's history and interpretation. By contrast "project pages" set out the project as primary, detailing the ideas that in a traditional setting the viewer has to establish for themselves.