Arts and entertainment industries faced many changes in the last year, the crisis revealing many flaws in the ‘system’ of functioning.Artists and entertainers asked for support, but what to do when the usual supporters (businesses or persons) need support themselves? Society seems to be in a shortage of life ring …
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TechvangArt in dialogue with René Pinnell the Artizan of ARTIZEN:… “Arts and Creatives, in crisis”. This is how the pandemic kicked-off, and the first solution was: hackathons. As we were used to organise hackathons and mentor teams, we offered to help artists. From the very start, few things become clear.Firstly, …
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TechvangArt in dialogue with Sean Grean, CEO & Founder of ARTERNAL. Building a startup is hard, but to ‘dare’ building in the ArtTech field is twice as difficult. Just a simple look at the market and anyone can notice that there are not that many startups. Artsy is always given …
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In 2020, with nowhere to go (no travel, parties, office, festivals, so on) the demand for fashion dropped dramatically. And 2021, showed its first victims: Rihanna’s Fenty Fashion House has closed less than 2 years after launching with LVMH, the French giant with a $320B+ valuation. (If Fenty has closed, …
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What can be more challenging than trying to figure out a model for a new industry? And we don’t even have to put the caveat: in these new times, that are unfolding before us. Is this an opportunity for an emerging industry to start thinking from point 0 ( or …
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“ #DressYourselfie! Upgrade your Lockdown Look ” was a post that caught my attention on Linkedin. My first thoughts were that it is just another funny COVID-related gimmick, but then immediately I noticed the intriguing and high quality design of the dress, made by María Ruano.For me, the idea was …
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As VR is still an emerging field, these type of startups are quite rare in the ecosystem. Definitely, it is not easy to set up a business and convince investors to be the first to pull funds in a domain that might or might not grow. However, for creators, having …
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Makerspace are popular environments that were set up to help (future)makers, but also to promote STEM Learning. The new trend was fuelled by necessities in our society toward more experts in the field of technology, engineering or science. So learning together form one another seemed a good idea. But, what …
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Art-Tech Startups Conversations. One-stop-shop for African Art: Pavillon 54 Even if still the US, China and UK dominate the art markets – largely because these richer countries count more art collectors, Art from Africa is showing a constant increase from year to year, in terms of sales! Museums in Europe and …