Digital Basket: Multimedia Labs for Gender Equality web art archive.

Abstract

The Digital Basket: Multimedia Labs for Gender Equality website – www.cabazdigital.uevora.pt – is the result of an artbased research project, in the form of an interactive digital art archive, that emerged to host the work of Digitalias, a domestic violence Shelter Home women artistic collective, as well as the work carried out as part of a wider multimedia art project centred on gender equality multimedia workshops for high school and university students and the community of Évora, Portugal. The website is intended to be a participatory art research project, of CHAIA-Centre for Art History and Artistic Research, of the University of Évora, carried out to promote gender equality on the Internet, from an inclusive and intersectional perspective, in accordance with the directives of the Action Plan for the Digital Transition, the INCoDe. 2030 Programme of the Government of Portugal, and the Strategy for Gender Equality 2020-2025 of the European Parliament. The main objectives are: collective co-creation of multimedia art and net art with students and the community, using basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, centred on gender equality issues, disseminated on this website and in travelling exhibitions, and; empowerment of girls and women in the community with ICT skills to reverse the downward trend in their participation in digital society and their consequent impoverishment and subalternation.