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What new forms of art research and discussion space have arisen since lists? How much have online discussion forums really changed the way we research and write about art? How has free online art discussion impacted the art critical professions? Have we witnessed the beginning of the end for the salarIed art critic and/or a rise in the independent art critical practitioner? And what about art historical scholars? What digital tools are changing the way art historians work? And how is the discipline adapting if at all? How do we explain what we do when we critique and contexualise arts online? What is different? Are these collaborative, iterative, performative practices and if so, are they all that new? And how else might the be described? What do these ways of working mean for the discipline of art history? How can we validate or teach these approaches? What skills are coming to the fore? And what contextual spaces/activities remain so experimental they are almost impossible to frame as art historical or critical acts? Any thoughts on this (or how to make the perfect martini? :-) Charlotte