“Archive” is a new documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale. Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of… Read More
Our minds just exploded after seeing the website to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Roppongi Hills Towers in Minato, Tokyo, one of Japan’s biggest property developments. Creative director Tsubasa Oyagi has created Tokyo City Symphony, an interactive space with wonderful toys which allow visitors… Read More
Social network ART+ announces the first BiennaleOnline with 180 of the most promising emerging artists chosen by 30 world leading curators. A streamed selection of the artist’s work, including rising stars from across the globe, will be shown on the BiennaleOnline exhibition that opens 26… Read More
A Space for Art is “a new start-up” based in London and Berlin trying to “build the world’s largest exhibition space.” Yeah, right! To achieve this ambitious goal the company wants “to grow the world’s largest community of exhibition spaces.” The official info on their… Read More
Hiscox and ArtTactic put together a report on online art trading with a list of surveys on the perception and behaviour of online buyers. The report revealed “the growing trend for buying art online – with 71% of art collectors surveyed having bought artwork without… Read More
Artshare calls itself “the world’s first online platform dedicated to the exhibition and sale of modern and contemporary Asian art”. IT will launch on 15 April 2013, trying to compete with other platforms like seditionart.com, Ocula or Saffronart who have started to tackle the asian… Read More
Looks like the battle for the one and only platform to sell contemporary art is in full swing. The Gallerist has learned that “Artspace, a website launched in 2011 that facilitates online sales for more than 100 galleries and nonprofit organizations, has agreed to acquire… Read More
To ring in the new financial year, Film and Video Umbrella is opening MerzBank – a repository of artists’ online works that draw their inspiration from that trailblazing exponent of collage, Kurt Schwitters. Guided by his innovations in the visual arts, in spoken word, in… Read More
A website called Vastari from London wants to be “a new platform to revolutionize collecting and curating.” Museums around the world organise thousands of exhibitions a year and Vastari’s interface and networking tools make it easier for these museums to communicate with the private sector… Read More
The last decade has seen an incredible growth in the production and distribution of images. The availability of unexpensive production means made amateur creativity increase exponentially, while the Internet provided a new platform of distribution for this kind of production, usually kept as private so… Read More
