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Guest article written by True Tamplin of 101domain, an accurate summary of what .ART stands for. If you are an artist, or work in the art community, you might be thinking of setting up a website to make your content more visible. You might wish to establish an online portfolio, build a site for receiving […]

An independent curator and advisor working across media and disciplines, Marie-Eve Lafontaine talks all things digital. Marie-Eve Lafontaine is an independent curator and advisor working across media and disciplines. Previously, she was director of Arsenale Contemporary in New York City, and has curated exhibition in Berlin, London and Warsaw. She has been an adopter of […]

Whether you are guided by passion or investment choices – it's worth displaying your private art collection online. Most of the talk in the collectors’ world seems to be centered around the processes of selection and purchase, but is there such thing as appropriate post-purchase behaviour? The concept of “cultural capital” has been present in […]

Art Handler is the first and only publication to solely focus on the art world’s behind-the-scenes. In the age of the “global weirding”, art and art related initiatives have to go through some rather noticeable changes. It concerns not only the way museum collections are being built or how art institutions tend to establish a […]

Niio is a digital platform that strives to educate difficult audiences and turn TV screens into creative canvases, inspiring people and communities all over the world. Quayola, Iconographies #20-8, 2014, Courtesy of bitforms gallery, NY. / Photo credit: Paradies City, Seoul The phone interview with the co-founder of Niio, Rob Anders, left me in total awe. “This […]

With the rise of new technologies, a third Industrial Revolution is well underway – and it’s affecting the art market. For decades, the collision of art and technology has empowered artists to take bold, creative new directions in their work. With the rise of new technologies like virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning […]

Interview with the Justin Anthony, the co-founder of one of the first cloud-based art inventory systems Artwork Archive is a cloud service for artists and collectors allowing to store all the important information about artworks and collections, track their location, provenance, pricing history etc. .ART talked to its co-founder Justin Anthony about the best way […]

Steve Miller discusses the evolution of the art ecosystem and how ARTERNAL allows the art world to make data-driven decisions Steve Miller is the Co-founder of a customer relationship management platform Arternal. Together with his Co-founders Sean Green and Raymond Nguyen they developed the platform to help professionals and organizations that sell art. Their team […]

Interview with Aretha Campbell, the artist manager for Bridgeman Studio. Aretha Campbell is the artist manager for Bridgeman Studio, one of the world’s leading specialists in the distribution of fine art, cultural and historical media for reproduction. With over a decade of experience in working within the contemporary art world as a curator, gallerist and […]

Interview with Vivi Kallinikou, Editor in Chief at ArtRabbit – an independent digital art platform for promoting, discovering and appreciating contemporary art and visual culture.<br /> ArtRabbit is an independent digital art platform for promoting, discovering and appreciating contemporary art and visual culture. Its mission is to make art as accessible as possible. For those who […]

Five years ago Jason founded Artnome, an analytical database of worlds leading artists. His mission has been to create a universal resource that could help tackle the forgery issue in the art world. In doing so, he is assembling the largest digital archive of catalogue raisonné’s. Currently, the platform has over 40 complete archives of […]

With Ars Electronica starting in just a few days, .ART talks to Vicente Matallana, one of the key international players in New Media Art. Vicente is the director of LaAgencia, an independent New Media Art company created in Madrid in 1998, thus being one of the trailblazers in the field. He is also Director of […]

A few easy steps to copyright your artwork and prevent copyright infringement Today’s reality is digital, so if you’re a modern artist it’s highly probable that your works are not hanging on a gallery wall and probably never will. Some time in a not so distant future most people will consider «offline» art exposure and […]

Jon is an Artist who turned into a global ambassador for preserving cultural artefacts using 3D technologies. Jonathan Beck is the Founder of an online cultural heritage project Scan the World, an initiative that archives objects of cultural significance using 3D scanning technologies. Since its inception in 2014, the platform has created over 16,000 downloadable […]

Addressing the Digital Natives Both companies and individuals submitted numerous applications for the Digital Innovation in Art award, supported by .ART for the third year. The Award recognises the innovators in the art industry that are using digital technology to push the traditional boundaries of the art market. This year’s awards ceremony will take place […]

Art furniture that will definitely impress you The 20th century is considered as the golden age of the modern chair. Artists and designers took advantage of the latest technological innovations to re-invent an ordinary piece of furniture. We have chosen 9 creative chairs proving that even a chair can be an artwork if it had […]

.ART talked to the co-founder of DADA, Judy Mam, about what the art world is now, how far it has moved away from what it should be, and how we can try and change it, not in spite of technology but with its help.  When I first logged on to www.dada.art , it reminded me […]

Blockchain is everywhere but its uses are more versatile than one might think. From symbolic depiction of wealth to an artist network powered by Bitcoin, .ART looks at some of the most interesting crypto-projects in the world of art. Blockchain is all the rage these days, including in the art world. Yet how exactly blockchain […]