Whether on business or vacation, hotel guests are notably receptive to interesting experiences and renewed perspectives. In today’s hospitality industry, art can make the difference in prompting that all-important digital story of the guest experience. Discover what The New York Times, Indiewalls, Architectural Digest, and others have to say on how some properties have begun to push the boundaries of what it means to be a hotel with great art.
The New York Times // An Art Museum in Your Hotel Lobby
Procuring and exhibiting art in all forms has been synonymous with the hotel experience for several decades now, with both luxury and midlevel brands highlighting local artwork and museum-quality pieces rather than predictable poster reprints. Read More
Art Installation Alizarin in the Peninsula Hong Kong’s Lobby. Image by Simon J Nicol.
Artnet News // 8 Amazing Hotels Around the World with Museum Quality Art Collections
In the material world, we live in, there are many new places making headlines, by redefining luxury. There’s no debating the fact that waking up in a gorgeous location, looking at millions of dollars worth of beautiful art is pretty much incomparable. If you’re a fan of luxe travelling, check out a list of eight top hotels around the world that boast great art collections. Read More
A part of the museum space at 21c Louisville Museum Hotel. Photo: Courtesy of 21c Museum Hotels.
Architectural Digest // 17 Hotels with Amazing Art Collections
These days, hotels offer travellers much more than a place to rest their heads. There are, for instance, a growing number of establishments collecting museum-grade artworks to hang in their lobbies, restaurants, and suites. Between permanent displays and rotating exhibitions, there’s always something to delight art-loving guests. Read More
Art Hotel Denver
Indiewalls // How Standout Hotel Art Can Make a Difference for Travelers
With the rise of the much discussed, millennial-fueled “experience economy,” this is likely to mean that the destinations they choose will be as informed by typical considerations like budget and bucket lists as “Insta-worthy” moments ripe for filling feeds with FOMO-inspiring imagery.
Where are travellers finding such experiences? Read More
It has long been believed that there is an underlying healing power of art. From music, dance, poetry, theatre to interactive art and more, there is undoubtedly a link between art and wellness.Discover what Design Week, Freize, the WSJ, and others have to say on the topic:
Design Week //Filling Hospitals with Art Reduces Patient Stress, Anxiety and pain
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has found that the mental health and experiences of those receiving intrusive examinations, surgery, chemotherapy and emergency care are improved when visual art is installed. Read More
Ceramic installation at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, by Adam Nathaniel Furman, image courtesy Gareth Gardner
Frieze //Art in Hospitals Reduces Depression and Pain, Research Finds
The study follows art lessons and trips to museums becoming available as NHS prescription options. It also features research that found that more than 80% of 50 women who underwent colposcopy examinations said that the art ‘greatly improved their anxiety and experience’. Feelings of depression fell by a third amongst patients undertaking chemotherapy. Clinical staff also found that art helped sooth children’s anxiety. Read More
Niio //The Healing Power of Art
Although the benefits of art in medical waiting areas, wards, private treatment rooms and hospital rooms have long been accepted, they have not been widely embraced, beyond traditional pictures and prints. Increased awareness of the benefits of mindfulness and engaging experiences has allowed digital art, displayed on screens or through projectors, to bestow a more immersive atmosphere in health environments. Interactive works, especially those that react to motion, allow a patient to become one with the art, offering a calming and distracting effect. The concept of moving, rotating art is particularly engaging for children. Read More
Interactive Media Wall at Boston Children’s Hospital
U.S. News & World Report //The Power of the Creative Arts in Health and Healing
What does creativity have to do with health, healing and well-being? Studies show that engaging in any creative process is healing. Whether you make a simple drawing or collage, look at art or talk about it, creativity and the arts can help you:
Express thoughts and emotions that can be hard to put into words
Lower stress and anxiety
Relax and feel calmer and happier
Connect with yourself on a deep level, no matter what you are going through
Find meaning in life experiences
Cope with grief and loss
Form new connections with others
Shift your focus away from pain or stressful thoughts to activities that are soothing, enjoyable and fun
Create something unique that gives you a sense of pleasure and accomplishment
Hospitals working to prioritize an arts budget and curator must believe deeply in this endeavour—and be willing to pay for it. Baron and Greene highlight the challenges hospitals face in developing an arts budget, tracking international art budgets for new hospitals in Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada, France, West Germany, and the U.S. The most common enforced art expenditure they noted was 1% of the cost of the construction cost of the hospital. Determining and selecting the art for the hospitals is another part of the equation and each hospital handles this differently. Read More
The Wall Street Journal. //More Hospitals Use the Healing Powers of Public Art
Researchers are learning more about the precise ways paintings and other works of art help patients and families in the healing process. With studies showing a direct link between the content of images and the brain’s reaction to pain, stress, and anxiety, hospitals are considering and choosing artworks based on the evidence and giving it a higher priority than merely decoration for sterile rooms and corridors. Read More
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine // Visual Art in Hospitals: Case Studies and Review of the Evidence
That the arts and sciences are seen as two contrasting disciplines, and indeed are defined as such, immediately presents challenges to a discussion of art in medicine, one of the foremost branches of science. There has, nevertheless, always been an awareness of the ‘art of medicine’ and a realization that health is influenced by a wide range of factors, many of which fall outside the conventional boundaries of medical science. Read More
Niio is proud to announce to be among the nominees for the Digital Innovation in Art Award 2019, at the Investor Allstars in London. Investor Allstars is crowned as the “Oscars” for the entrepreneurship and investor communities.
The Digital Innovation In Art Award recognises a company or individual in the art industry that has used digital technology or the internet to disrupt and innovate within their field.
We congratulate our fellow shortlisted nominees. Stay tuned via our Instagram account to find out who wins on October 3rd!
The Finalists
Steve Miller – ARTERNAL
Steve Miller is one of .ART’s first adopters, showcasing his artwork in versatile mediums at www.stevemiller.art. He is also a co-founder of ARTERNAL, a CRM software which assists art galleries in efficiently consolidating multiple platforms.
Longping Derek Zhao founded ARTEXB inspired by the creation of Google Arts & Culture. It is a project supported by the medium of 360° panoramic VR, which aims to systematically document Chinese contemporary art exhibitions around the world.
Artnome is the blog of Jason Bailey, who self-identifies as an “art nerd” trying to trigger an art analytics revolution by building the world’s largest analytical database of known works across our most important artists.
ArtRabbit is a unique guide to the contemporary art scene, connecting thousands of artspaces, exhibitions and events to artists, art professionals, collectors, students and art-interested people alike.
Over the past twenty years Eugene has been in senior positions in computer programming, technology and big data. An amateur photographer himself, he realized that bringing online and offline together could create the right kind of synergy. ArtWalls is a platform for bringing aspiring creators and art connoisseurs together, in public spaces and online.
Artwork Archive is an innovative art business management software brand based in Denver, CO. Its cloud-based art database system offers a wide range of easy to use tools, including inventory and contact management, sales reports and expense tracking.
Niio is reimagining the way humans interact with art in their everyday lives. Underpinned by a robust technology platform that powers the entire ‘digital art’ ecosystem with dedicated management tools, Niio has amassed a global community of 3,500 leading artists, galleries and institutions who have stored and published over 11,000 high quality digital format artworks. Niio can then ‘port’ this gallery-quality digital art onto any screen, anywhere – unlocking an entirely new form of consumption: streaming digital art via subscription or purchase.
Jonathan Beck is the founder of an online cultural heritage project Scan the World, an initiative that archives objects of cultural significance using 3D scanning technologies. Since its inception in 2014, the platform has created over 16,000 downloadable artefacts and received over 60 million views to its page.
Mike LaTour spent 17 years in the music industry before he became President & CEO Soundwave Art™. The app allows a unique experience of converting your own sounds into customisable works of art and jewellery.
Ex-Googler Joel Kremer is the director of The Kremer Museum, a VR museum which hosts an Old Masters collection of about 75 works collected over the years by Joel’s parents George and Ilone Kremer.
Marco Cappellini is the founder of VirtuItaly, a project that creates edutainment experiences with art through digital technologies, both with immersive and interactive digital exhibitions.
Bridgeman Images works with museums, galleries, collections and artists to provide a central resource of fine art and archive footage for reproduction to creative professionals.The Bridgeman Artists’ Copyright Service is a service to artists and their estates to administer their copyright and sell reproduction licenses for their work.
Niio has launched its Asia arm in Hong Kong in addition to operations in London, Tel Aviv and the US. Growing its innovation-driven business internationally, Niio brings premium curated new media art to Hong Kong with a newly commissioned curated artwork catalogue announced at Art Basel and exhibited at the city’s Landmark Mandarin Oriental hotel, powered by Samsung SMART Signage.
A series of successful high profile projects in Hong Kong inspired Niio to plant permanent roots in the city to cater to a growing regional customer base and also to build out a strong community of Asian artists and galleries on the platform. In a bid to transform spaces and offer meaningful, thought-provoking art experiences to public audiences, Niio recently powered the Sino Illumination Art Prize which enabled talented artists to exhibit their works to millions on huge screens overlooking Victoria Harbour and the company also curated the popular outdoor Mega Screen Art Screenings for Lai Sun at Cheung Sha Wan Plaza.
Niio x JM Network Art Moments // Artwork: Joe Hamilton, Cezanne Unfixed
“We’re excited to establish ourselves as part of the dynamic art scene in the cultural hub of Hong Kong and thrilled to be launching during Art Basel and collaborating with the prestigious Landmark Mandarin Oriental hotel on this project. We are also happy to have the support of Samsung SMART Signage during this art-filled week. Art is permeating this city, reaching the masses through corporate and public activities. Simultaneously digital experiences and cutting-edge technology are an integral part of everyday life in Asia and Niio is excited to bring art and technology together here. We are aiming to balance the digital noise all around us with inspiring people through curated digital art experiences in private and public spaces and are equally excited about growing our community of Asian artists and to showcasing their work across the world. The digital medium is not only the most relevant for our generation, but the easiest to reach. With the Niio platform we hope to inspire the broadest audiences everywhere.” – Rob Anders, Niio CEO.
Rob Anders, Niio Co-founder at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental // Artwork: Branden summers, Idle Time Series
Niio has already established an agile local team on the ground, working collaboratively across industries including notable AVSI and hardware partners to support the needs of clients.
“Niio’s comprehensive technology ecosystem, dedicated to the digital medium, is a compelling community building platform and tool for the arts community. We hope to ignite enjoyment, curiosity and a deeper understanding what digital arts is all about. Niio is delighted to take this opportunity to empower art professionals in Asia in this field to showcase and share their work internationally.” – Marissa Shaw, Advisor at Niio.
Quayola: Asymmetric Archaeology Gazing Machines reimagines the past and rediscovers nature through the perspective of the machine. Through the works in the exhibition, the past is revisited in relationship to the present and the future, exploring an asymmetry that excludes the subjective view of the human and instead brings to the fore machine-processed objective ideas. Through these processes, classical art forms such as Hellenistic sculptures, Old Master paintings, and Baroque architecture are detached from iconographical semantics of the past to be regenerated into digital abstract works. In addition, familiar visual tropes of nature are transformed into a new artificial landscape engendered by machinery.
Strata I, Laocoon
The artist’s first large-scale solo exhibition in China consists of eight sections featuring artworks in a range of different media, including over 50 pieces of digital print, video, sculpture, and robotic installation. The expansive breadth of the exhibit presents major works by Quayola not only within the interior gallery space of HOW Art Museum, but also extends across the building’s media facades. The exhibition was curated by Doo Eun Choi.
Strata, Iconographies, Sculpture Factory #2 and Laocoön are four projects that analyze classical paintings, sculptures, and architecture using complex computer algorithms, recreating contemporary abstract works by severing religious and mythical scenes from their past contexts. Sculpture Factory is inspired by the ‘non-finito’ technique of Michelangelo whereby unworked sections of the sculpture block mean that pieces appear unfinished. Into this scenario, the artist introduces a new performance undertaken by a large-scale robot, which sculpts infinite variations of Pluto and Proserpina, a Baroque masterpiece produced by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini in the 17th century. Laocoön, meanwhile, draws inspiration from one of the most studied Ancient Greek sculptural masterpieces, Laocoön and His Sons. Quayola’s work is the result of complex digital simulations and experiments with virtual/physical prototyping technologies.
Iconographies
Remains, Promenade, Jardins d’Été and Camouflage represent ongoing projects that reexamine the familiar visual language of nature associated with traditional compositions of landscape paintings. Through intricate digital rendering processes, new digital landscapes emerge from actual natural scenes that are captured in high resolution using high-precision laser scanners and cameras. Diverse motifs come in to play for each work by recreating a new visual literacy; Remains observes the popular practice of en plein air (outdoor painting) of the late 19th century; Promenade explores the new aesthetics of contemporary autonomous vehicles and machine vision using a drone; and Jardins d’Été and Camouflage evoke imagery from the French impressionism of Claude Monet. Ultimately, the works become hybrid landscapes – neither real nor virtual – transcending the boundaries of the figurative and abstract domains.
Our banalities are freely detached from their original contexts to become new objects of contemplation through the peculiar mechanism of machinery and the complex algorithms of Quayola.
Jardins d’Été
Quayola employs technology as a lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new. Constructing immersive installations, often at historically significant architectural sites, he engages with and reimagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Hellenistic sculpture, Old Master painting, and Baroque architecture are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola’s abstract compositions. His varied practice, all deriving from custom computer software, also includes audiovisual performance, video, sculpture, and works on paper.
Quayola’s work has been shown widely around the world through 10 solo exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions, public installations and performances. His past exhibitions include Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Paco Das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil; Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada; Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain; Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo and Sundance Film Festival, Utah, USA.
Music collaborations include Vanessa Wagner, Ensemble Intercontemporain, National Orchestra of Bordeaux, London Contemporary Orchestra, Plaid, Jamie XX and Tale Of Us.
Special projects have been commissioned by Audemars Piguet; Bozar, Brussels; Cite’ de la Musique, Paris; Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille and Canary Wharf Group, London.
THE EXHIBITION IS POWERED BY NIIO
“It’s quite an amazing system for preserving, managing and distributing digital video editions. My gallerist and I are using Niio for transferring limited editions to buyers and to museums for exhibitions.” Quayola, new media artists, represented by bitforms gallery, NY
Niio is the premium discovery, display and management platform for new media art, embraced by leading artists, galleries, museums, curators, collectors and arts organisations from around the world, who are using Niio’s proprietary technology tools to securely safeguard, showcase, transfer, monetise and display thousands of their high-quality works on any type of “digital canvas.
HOW Art Museum No 1, Lane 2277, Zuchongzhi Road 201203 Shanghai | China
A screening series by blinkvideo in collaboration with Goethe Institute Netherlandsselected by Elke Kania, Julia Sökeland and Ludwig Seyfarth, powered by Niio.
With its combination of various arts such as painting, photography film, architecture, fashion, product and interior design and textile art, the Bauhaus is still considered the epitome of a technologically advanced modernity. Last but not least, the attempt to create the whole society aesthetically, inspired many artists worldwide. Even in the contemporary Moving Image Art, the Bauhaus heritage is referenced in many ways, directly or associatively. For example, the Bauhaus architecture or modernist buildings that are in their tradition are being re-interviewed as living models, the modernisation of cities and the changing perception of new technologies with comparable intensity targeted as by the artists of the Bauhaus or the lens-less film experiments like those of László Moholy-Nagy were taken up with today’s technical possibilities. An insight into international Film Art shows: even 100 years later – the Bauhaus lives, at least in the visions of the artists.
The screening series ate realised parallel to the exhibition „The Netherlands ⇄ Bauhaus – Pioneers of a New World” (February 9th – May 26th 2019) in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Screening #01: Creating Worlds Thursday, 14.02.2019, 19:00 h The creation of living worlds can reflect political ideologies, reveal a desire to shape private living space or follow media models from feature films. The screening works reflect these concepts.
Dimitri Venkov, The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018 Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann, Sonntag, Büscherhöfchen 2, 2014 One Hour Real, 2017 followed by an Artist Talk with Gossing/Sieckmann Curated and moderated by Elke Kania and Julia Sökeland.
Dimitri Venkov, The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018
Screening #02: Bigger than Life / Built Histories Thursday, 07.03.2019, 19:00 h How is history reflected in (modern) architecture? And can history be architecturally “invented”? A project called “Skopje 2014.” so far errected some thirty government buildings and museums, as well as countless monuments in the classic style, in an attempt to put Skopje on a par with Rome and Athens. A city looks for a future in history.
Adnan Softic, Bigger Than Life, 2018 Tight tissue – or – The body is my temple, 1999 Niklas Goldbach, 1150 San Remo Drive, 2017 Habitat C3B, 2008 followed by an Artist Talk with Adnan Softic. Curated and moderated by Julia Sökeland and Ludwig Seyfarth.
Niklas Goldbach, 1550 San Remo Drive, 2017
Screening #03: Transition of Technology: Moving the Image Thursday, 21.03.2019, 19:00 h The combination of photography and film and the use of “imaging” with light in photograms shaped the work of László Moholy-Nagy; his telephone pictures from the 1920s can be interpreted as early works of media art. The screening presents contemporary camera-less film art, new approaches between static photography and the movement of images.
Stephanie Gudra, Wuslon, 2017 Benjamin Verhoeven, Somebody was trying to kill Somebody Else, 2014 Tim Gorinski, Generative Ideas (working title), 2019 Barbara Hammer, Sanctus, 1990, on loan from JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION Düsseldorf/Berlin, www.julia-stoschek-collection.net, Courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin Ugo Petronin, Abiding, 2019 followed by a Q&A with Ugo Petronin, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam Curated and moderated by Elke Kania.
Ugo Petronin, Abiding, 2019
Screening #04: Facades and Interieur / How do we feel in modern environments? Thursday, 25.04.2019, 19:00 h How does the functionalist credo of the Bauhaus live on in architecture? And how does architecture relate to human scale? Today’s artists pursue this question with various cinematic means.
Rebecca Ann Tess, The Tallest, 2014 Martina Wolf, Regen I, Dresden. 2002 Moira Zoitl, Kitchen Torso: On Reducing the Number of Steps, 2013 followed by an Artist Talk with Rebecca Ann Tess. Curated and moderated by Ludwig Seyfarth.
Martina Wolf, Regen I, Dresden, 2002
Screening #05: Architectural Utopies – Here and Now Thursday,16.05.2019, 19:00 h How do utopias of Bauhaus architecture function in the midst of a media present? Technology and aspects of social media find their way into the glass house of memory, into the models of public and private spaces.
Rebecca Ann Tess, The Tallest, 2014
Manuel Graf, Shulmantonioni, 2004, courtesy the artist and VAN HORN, Duesseldorf Frauke Boggasch & Martin Sulzer, ホームドリーム / Hōmudorīmu / Home Dream, 2019 – reflecting the development of the Bauhaus Architecture nowadays at Japan Elizabeth Price, At the House of Mr. X, 2007 on loan from JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION Düsseldorf/Berlin, www.julia-stoschek-collection.net, Courtesy of the artist and MOT International, London Arianne Olthaar, Hotel Forum, 2016, followed by an Artist Talk with Arianne Olthaar. Curated and moderated by Elke Kania.
