For thousands of years artists have recorded their impressions and expressions through a variety of media: stone, chalk, paint, clay, canvas, screen displays and more. Virtual Reality technology affords artists their own dimensions in which viewers can step into creations and live them with every ...

Posted: June 25, 2018

Category: Technology, VR

Who says visiting museums is dull? Thanks to technology, museums all over the world have come up with exciting ways to present exhibits to visitors. The advent of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) has allowed some of the world’s museums to showcase their installations in a different way. Here ...

Posted: June 8, 2018

Category: AR, Technology, VR

Lausanne based platform ARTMYN (artmyn.com) is a pioneer in the digitalisation of Fine Art. Using a new generation of scanners and algorithms, this startup is making art increasingly accessible. ARTMYN technology is also able to extract the DNA from a piece of art to detect any damages, ...

Posted: June 5, 2018

Category: Interviews, Technology

Though very much an emerging technology, artists, museums, galleries, consumers, and collectors are experimenting with new frontiers of expression. Here we’re taking a look at the top 10 Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality products disrupting the art world today.   For Creators Most VR/AR ...

Posted: April 22, 2018

Category: AR, Technology, VR

Who would have guessed ahead of the sale of Leonardo DaVinci’s Salvator Mundi in November 2017 that the painting would have fetched US$450 million at the auction block? Art appraisers hadn’t. Would Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) have been able to? Teams of art professionals, A.I. ...

Posted: March 19, 2018

Category: Market, Technology

Christy Turner was angry that her exotic photo shoot of the volcanic island of St. Helena had appeared on the cover of the island’s tourist magazine without her permission. It wasn’t the first time her work had been pilfered, though. She had used online services Copypants and Pixsy to find the ...

Posted: February 25, 2018

Category: AI, Technology

It’s difficult to determine what is more disconcerting: that an exhibit purposely displayed a fake Rembrandt, or that an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) program painted it – or, rather, generated it on a 3D printer. The effort was the result of an 18-month-long collaboration between several ...

Posted: February 5, 2018

Category: AI, Technology

In July 2017 Genoa’s Palazzo Ducale shut down its Modigliani exhibition of 60 works three days before the display’s official closing date. One-third of the works attributed to the artist were fakes.  If art professionals had had Artificial Intelligence (AI), would the museum have been able to ...

Posted: January 23, 2018

Category: AI, Technology