Art-Tech Industry
It appears that the online auction house winning the startup funding war is the one you've never heard of: Auctionata. The Berlin-based startup, which has only been in business for a year, just raised $20.2 million in second round funding from five different...
New art-tech venture Dot Dash 3 (the word art in Morse code includes three dots and three dashes), is something like a video game for art collectors. The new technology creates a virtual exhibition space that allows you to visualize artwork in 3D...
Over the last five years investors have funneled tens of millions of dollars into fledgling websites that help users buy, sell, borrow, and learn about art online. Backers range from flush art world figures like Dasha Zhukova to successful venture capitalists...
A forger-proof system for “fingerprinting” art? This technology is a reality according to one of its developers, the engineer and conservationist Dr. Bill Wei of the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Heritage, who spoke at the recent ARCA Conference on...
In a new initiative announced today, Internet sales site Artspace is offering its subscribers direct access to the work of seven established Chinese photographers. Normally, there's something of a taboo for artists when it comes to bypassing...
The brainchild of Juan Garcia, a Melbourne based entrepreneur and passionate art collector, artFido is an extremely well presented and highly advanced online sales and auction platform for everyday collectors to browse, search for, and buy and sell art....
You wouldn't buy a $25,000 pair of shoes without trying them on, so why buy art that way? That's the logic behind the new San Francisco-based art-rental startup Artify It (artify.it, not to be confused with the Toronto-based Canadian art rental site Artify.ca...
Not too long ago in an article on what we have been calling the "art-tech industry," ARTINFO quoted a pundit, James Hedges of Montage Finance, saying that most of the relatively new art sites that have sprung up over the last half-decade...
This is not an article about Paddle8's well-designed Web site (nor its office style), but rather a story about what's behind what you see online and what the much-talked-about company is really up to. On the surface, it seems like one of...
The Internet is a great place: It has revolutionized the way that we communicate, shop, and consume information. But certain things have a certain je ne sais quoi to them that transitions awkwardly to the Web, and thus far, art is one of them. While...
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February 09, 2013
