Highlights of 2017 edition

The first ArtTech Forum took place on 29th September 2017 at Forum Rolex EPFL, Switzerland. It was attended by around one hundred experts and leading figures from academic, cultural, artistic and business circles in Switzerland and abroad.

In a nod to recent world events, the forum focused on how innovative technologies can be used to help our oft-imperiled tangible and intangible heritage reclaim its place at the heart of our society.

Several Swiss and international startups competing for the ArtTech prize served up concrete illustrations of the amazing potential technology offers to culture and the arts.

Yves Ubelmann

” What we try to do is develop new technologies for digital acquisition, 3D acquisition, in order to archive monuments and archaeological sites threatened with destruction ”

Speaker highlights
Preserving the knowledge of threatened heritage using digital advances
Yves Ubelmann (Iconem)
Archiving Cultural Heritage from the Montreux Jazz Festival using Nature's Preferred Media: DNA
Bill Peck (Twist Bioscience)
Jon Eades (Abbey Road Studios RED)
The Future of the intersection of Art, Sciences and Society
Horst Hörtner (Ars Electronica Futurelab)
Visual Arts, the Brain and Technology
Prof. Olaf Blanke (EPFL)
Cultural heritage and new technologies
Prof. Pierre Magistretti (EPFL), Prof. Sarah Kenderdine (EPFL), Dr. Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne), Yves Ubelmann (Iconem)
Exhibition - From Scientific Storage to Human Experience
EPFL + ECAL Lab
Investment in 'art-tech' projects: why and how?
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé)
Opening ceremony
Nathalie Pichard (ArtTech Foundation)

2017 Partners

  • EPFL
  • Crans Montana
  • consulat honoraire russie