I am leaning toward digital for a viable artform that is easily transported - i.e. if you paint large works, how do you move them across borders, with customs (there is no duty on artwork, but some countries charge enormous VAT) - and I had already mused about this when I crossed borders into Switzerland for a show: would it not be ultimately easier to just go there with your digital art on a memory stick, print, sign and frame it right there - no hassles at borders, no expensive transports! I recently "donated" a large digital print to a show in Columbia. It was printed on site, I just sent the file info for downloading.
As for your work, I need some breathing space once I get through fixing the web pages of the existing artists and then I will decide what to do with the network on Ning. The main reason for maintaining the network was that slide shows from it could be embedded on the public site, but now with Flash being history, there is not much incentive to paying the exorbitant rates Ning charges for the network, so it is likely I just drop it once the contract runs out, and continue with my artist communications on various social networks where I found them in the first place.
So we definitely stay in touch here - once I maintain the VAG public site (which I do largely by myself anyway) without any "administrators" I be more free to make unilateral decisions, but this still means that I will use a high criteria selection process. Having been on government juries in Canada, I do have a background to do so. The work needs to fit into the genre of surreal, visionary, fantastic realism to qualify. There is a wealth of this art around, and spreading into wider genres would not serve anyone, since people come to look at this specific type of work and expect it on my website(s). I certainly don't want a so called "Kraut und Rüben Acker" (weeds and beets lot) as such a catch-all is called in German. For that reason I had the private network closed - if opened to public, then anyone could have registered, and if you look at what is out there on the internet that is wide open, you get frustrated finding anything good in a whole pile of stuff that should sooner belong pinned to grandmothers fridge door rather than published on the internet. Some call me elitist for my views, but not everyone that can handle a can opener can claim a job as a brain surgeon at the Mayo Clinic.