The ArtTech Foundation has partnered the new Swiss media Heidi.news to publish a series of articles on the connective tissue between art and technology, The Miracles of Art and Tech. 

Discover the 7 th episode of Heidi.news Explorations, in collaboration with the ArtTech Foundation.

The researchers of the Institute of Archeology of the University of Lausanne will present in Boston and New-York on 22th and 23th October their research on recently destroyed Baalshamîn sanctuary in Palmyra.  Program developped in collaboration with MIT  Future Heritage Lab and Swissnex Boston  https://www.swissnexboston.org/events/

The ArtTech Forum 2020 will be announced by the beginning of next year. The launch of the selection for the ArtTech Prize 2020 will take place next spring.

Polkatulk are the 2019 winners! They have been selected from 8 young companies and convinced the audience with their fascinating and original ideas. We look forward to seeing more of them on the international scene in the near future. By entering the ArtTech start-up community, they will fully benefit from the Foundation international network.

In the morning of the 24th September, there will be presentations and conferences about the link between technology, heritage preservation and the archiving of historical data. Prof. Frederic Kaplan, Prof. Sarah Kenderdine and Andrea Barbon, Managing director of the ARCHiVe center, Venice will describe their exciting projects.

This year, 8 start-ups are in the running for the ArtTech Prize 2019. They are from the US, the UK, France, Austria and Switzerland and will be competing for the CHF 10’000 prize and networking support. We’ll be keeping the names of the start-ups secret until the day of the event! The winner will be selected on September 24 by the audience.

Invest in ArtTech start-ups! A panel discussion, led by Patrick Aebischer, Chairman of the ArtTech Foundation, will explore new business models. The focus will be on the promotion of entrepreneurship and investment in culture and technology. Meet the panelists on https://arttechfoundation.org/2019-forum/

We’re approaching this year’s ArtTech Forum which will take place in partnership with the Fondazione Giorgi Cini on 24^th September. More than 150 participants from the international community (scholars, engineers, analysts, scientists and representatives of art and culture) will be joining us and contributing to our ever-widening network of international members. The event is now full. However please contact us if you want to go on the waiting list.

24th September in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini , Venice – ArtTech Forum 2019 – This year, the conferences and panel discussions will present different projects showing the link between technologies, heritage preservation and the archiving of historical data.

24th May at HeK, Basel –  Organized by HeK in cooperation with the ArtTech Foundation on 24th May, AI Night, Powered by PechaKucha  with speakers from the Swiss and international AI scene was a great success. More information on HeK website.

11th-12th June, University of Bern – the ArtTech Foundation supports the Berner Altorientalisches Forum (BAF), an annual international forum devoted to research on the greater Ancient Near East. Yves Ubelmann, founder of the startup  Iconem, and a participant in the ArtTech Forum 2017 and 2018, gave the lecture “Tech for culture: 3D’s role in cultural heritage restoration”.