Art & Technology
Infrared-light technology gets funding boost
Technology could foresee deterioration of artworks
Ten years after the hysteria of dotcom boom and bust, the web is finally finding its place in the art market
Leaving the house has never seemed more unnecessary
"Naked scanners" being used to research mummies
A new use for airport screening technology
An advance in iron preservation aids conservators
Work on Civil War submarine leads to pioneering technique
Technology reveals Caravaggio self-portrait
Searching for underdrawings, conservators discover the artist’s reflection
Stopping the passage of time: Colour photography conservation
A new technique aims to prevent colour prints from fading—but is it legal?
Hollywood technology used to examine new Herculaneum find
Researchers see future applications for this cross-over science
New Kinetica fair celebrates kinetic and hi-tech art
The event will be held 28 February to 2 March
Cypriot wall paintings get HIV test as part of conservation strategy
Adapted antibody technique helps conservators find suitable restoration materials
High-tech study could give new life to Moore’s Arch
Development in conservation of sculpture
Can past nuclear explosions help detect forgeries?
The inventors of a new technique for dating paintings say it can prove whether a work was made before or after 1945
MoMA stem cell exhibit dies five weeks into show
“Victimless Leather”, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells, was fed nutrients by tube
Books: “Spirit photography”, the paradoxical meeting point of technology and the paranormal
Not about faith or folly, but film as reality
Bill Gates’s Leonardo Codex removed from British Library website
Leading scholar is “saddened” by decision
Art makes a scene in virtual platform Second Life
The online virtual world is becoming one of the best places for artists, curators and dealers to meet
Bill Gates announces there is to be Leonardo for all (those with Vista software)
The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft spoke at the British Library (BL) in January at the glitzy launch of Windows Vista, his company’s new operating system
MoMA puts collection inventories online
This move will substantially increase the accessibility of it's collections
Christie’s launches online bidding
Clients will be able to follow live auctions at home
News from New York: Rocking art, baffling awards, and PaceWildenstein hits a midlife crisis
The prestigious New York firm imitates younger, hipper galleries such as Deitch Projects with a show of video game art
Leonardo underdrawings revealed, putting the authenticity of the Virgin of the rocks beyond dispute
Infra-red examination shows abandoned original design
Simple, small, silent: A celebratory history of the Leica camera
A new book explores the history of the first truly portable camera
Harvard’s barcode revolution: the University makes plans to digitise its huge art collection
By 2007 Harvard will be able to track the collection digitally, and everything will be accessible
Microsoft’s “digital home gallery service” aims to bring any artwork to your home, on the cheap
Everything for the armchair art lover, at the flick of a switch
The story of the Thornham Parva retable shows how technology is increasingly influencing art history
Conservation and connoisseurship joined at the altar
Alex Galloway, director of Content & Technology at Rhizome.org talks to Peter Schauer about the state of internet art
Keeping net art live
Congress approves $100,000 for pilot digital project
Digital Promise non-profit will develop electronic education programmes
The Art Newspaper's exclusive insight into the new Universal Leonardo Project
Oxford professor launches detailed technical study of all works attributed to Leonardo to be completed by major exhibitions in 2006
Old fashioned and ill informed critical backlash is impeding the utility of replicas of historical cultural artefacts
Replicas are not necessarily second-rate Disneyfications, says conservator John Larson
Peter Weibel: “Art has become irrelevant today”
As director of this centre for arts and media technology, Peter Weibel, says that media art can be more politically engaged because it relates to the new technologies and the new economic order
Austria’s 15th digital arts festival
This year’s 15th Ars Electronica, the Austrian digital arts competition, is as strong as ever, despite the fact that the digital revolution has been going through its first real crisis