Apollo Awards 2022 Digital Innovation Shortlist

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ArtCentric

Founded in March by Florentine digital painting company Centrica, the startup aims to change the way art is taught in schools and universities. With more than 6,000 works tracing the history of art from ancient Egypt to the present, the software offers a one-stop shop for teachers and students.

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Ars Publicata

Launched in October, this digital collection seeks to provide public access to publications by leading contemporary artists, as well as catalog raisonnés and other reference works. The site currently offers free browsing of the works and publications of more than 400 contemporary artists, from Robert Rauschenberg to Marina Abramović.

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Sculpture of Great Britain

Art Britain’s comprehensive catalog of public sculpture across the UK has been more than five years in the making and has been added to its catalog of paintings in public collections. The database of nearly 13,500 records contains information on the author(s), medium, year of construction or installation, method of acquisition, and notes on form and content, along with photographs of the works where known.

Eat for England (2005–06), Bob Budd. Image: Susan Dawson/Art UK

Artwrld

Artwrld is a new NFT platform that aims to expand the field of crypto art by bringing contemporary artists into the digital space. Artists signed on to create the first NFT artworks so far include Yael Bartana, Mel Chin, Jil Magid, Shirin Neshat and Ahmet Ogut.

Monuments unveiled: Marlene Garcia-Esperat (2022), Ahmet Ögit. Courtesy of Artwlrd

Factum Fund

Madrid-based non-profit organization Factum Foundation has worked with Fondazione Palazzo Te to recreate five of Giulio Romano’s designs as physical objects for the ‘Giulio Romano’ exhibition. La forza delle cose’ (until January 8, 2023). None of the original objects created by Raphael’s student, including the sea monster everen, have survived to this day.

Courtesy of Factum Foundation

United States National Herbarium

In May of this year, the Botany Department of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History completed a seven-year project to digitize its plant collections. A comprehensive digital data catalog of specimens and transcribed label images has been created and made fully available to the public to help preserve collections by reducing wear and tear.