Art & Technology
Trevor Paglen lets you view the world as the machines see it
Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence
Artists as cryptofinanciers: welcome to the blockchain
Curious new relationships between art and capital are being enabled by cryptofinance, which places “monetary value” at the heart of the creative process
Google and the World Monuments Fund highlight Iraqi heritage under threat
Using drone footage, 3D models and videos, the tech giant is working with cultural institutions to make preservation efforts accessible to a larger public
How do you conserve time-based media? Museums invest in research to keep up with new technologies
Symposium on the subject to open at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts
Douglas Coupland’s work in plastic is fantastic
The writer and artist unveils an ecological work inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and a 3D-printed national portrait of Canada
The dark web, surveillance dolls and Van Gogh’s zombie ear: technology’s role in art debated at Boston conference
While artists and museums embrace futuristic tools, legal experts point to a number of pitfalls with cutting-edge work
Fresco that never was will be digitally realised
Charles Le Brun project at Vaux-le-Vicomte, halted by a financial scandal at Louis XIV’s court, will be completed with video projection
Koons at cutting edge with giant stone mills: The techniques behind his creations
Koons' sculptures may look like child's play, but behind the play-doh is a long and complicated process
Menil reveals secrets of Newman’s technique
An eight-year effort to restore a major work by Barnett Newman (1905-70) has shed new light on the artist’s methods.
Christie’s buys digital management system
Collectrium is a digital multi-tool for art collection
Smithsonian Design Museum reopens with array of high-tech displays
Cooper Hewitt puts can-do spirit into the house Carnegie built
Let the video roller coaster ride begin : Interview with Ryan Trecartin
Trecartin’s films, created with Lizzie Fitch, trace the impact of technology on modern life
(Inter)facing the future at Barbican's 'Digital Revolution'
Exploring the impact of digital technology on art, music, film and design
Silicon Valley tech companies take novel approaches to art investment
Silicon Valley’s success stories are applying their non-corporate ethos to art investment, finding innovative ways of building their collections
How to avoid digital boom and bust
There are plenty of grants for new digital projects but finding long-term funding could be much harder
Web of intrigue: How has the 'post-internet' era changed the contemporary art world?
In the ‘post-internet’ age, digital artists are reassessing their relationship with galleries and collectors.
Let’s get digital with "post-internet" art
The frontier spirit of post-internet artists.
The digital age meets design classics at Design Miami
Galleries test the market for innovation, but there is also a wealth of Modernism on show
The art book digital takeover: not if but when
Art books for tablets will leave printed works as elite items
Digital access to Italian banks’ art
300,000 works owned by banks belonging to the Associazione Bancaria Italiana to become available to view online
The race to digitise the world’s heritage
Non-profit organisation has big plans to gather data from 500 sites over the next five years
Art enters the third dimension as 3-D printing goes mainstream
Assessing the impact of technological advances in 3-D printers and scanners on the art world, and what it means for the future
Investigating under Ernst’s surfaces at the Fondation Beyeler
Technical analysis could reveal secrets of rare Ernst plaster sculpture
How the detection of titanium white gave away Beltracchi
The pigment proved Beltracchi's version was inauthentic, since it was not in use at the time that the original was painted
Web salvation for workers’ art as GDR artists are digitally rehabilitated
Shunned since the Wall fell, East German works are now catalogued on the 'Bildatlas'
US could stop artists using drones
New regulations may restrict the use of surveillance technology in their work
How printmaking made Rembrandt an international star
New technology and growing middle class consumption opened up his works and those of his contemporaries to new markets
Thieves foil high-tech security at Kunsthal Rotterdam
Seven works were stolen as unmanned overnight protection fails
Who’s in the picture? Anti-terror software might tell us
Face recognition software used to spot terrorists may be the answer to identifying unknown sitters in portraits.
Books: The National Gallery’s latest Technical Bulletin makes some great discoveries
The volume is a compendium of papers presented at the Gallery in September 2009