For immediate release
May 10th, 2021
Media contact: Anastasia Sukhanov, avs@nic.art, +34 629 940 813
.ART domain zone celebrates its fourth Birthday
Launched to the public in 2017, .ART has grown from an exciting global project into a digital hub in its own right.
In the last year, .ART has upheld its place among the top-10 fastest growing domain zones, proving that the creative community is choosing it not only rationally, but from their hearts too. It is worth noting that .ART is a domain zone populated with quality registrations, maintaining a high level of websites that are in use. Among its 110K+ adopters are circa.art, a platform supporting struggling artists with limited edition prints by Ai Weiwei and other icons of the art world, a platform for online co-creation dada.art, creative community Kickstarter, Boston Arlekin Players Theatre’s new interactive experience headed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Blockchain pioneers, eco-conscious projects, designers and numerous creatives from all walks of life.
“At the heart of my vision there is a passion for the arts, and the belief in its value – economical, emotional, and for humanity. The pandemic year we just went through showcases the importance of art in our life, its effect on our wellbeing. Art can soothe, art can be the medium for difficult conversations. Now that .ART has grown into a digital hub in its own right, we will double our efforts in product development and continue supporting the creative community, which inspires us to go further every day”,- says Ulvi Kasimov, .ART Founder.
“For someone to appreciate or love a work of art it first has to be seen and .ART is quickly becoming the place that allows people to cut through the clutter of the ever expanding global art world”, – says Jonathan Prince, artist, jonathanprince.art.
Notable .ART news:
Digital Twin patent & NFT destination
After obtaining a US patent for the .ART Digital Twin solution, which might be best described as a sophisticated digital certificate of authenticity that can be applied to any art or cultural object, the team of .ART went further. Thanks to a seamlessly integrated algorithm, artworks registered with .ART Digital Twin can now be easily sold on OpenSea and Rarible (NFT marketplaces). This allows any creative to try their hand at NFT minting without any struggle.
Impactful partnerships
.ART is becoming a home and a partner of choice for many organisations as well as groundbreaking projects which are sharing our goals and values; fostering communities, thinking globally, generating value from art and creativity as well as supporting artists.
ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE | ARLEKIN’S ZERO GRAVITY (ZERO-G) .ART is proud to have announced last week its latest partnership. Arlekin’s Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab. .ART will host all the (zero-G)’s virtual theatre productions creating an international hub for virtual theater performance. As the art industry has been tested in the past year, the live art has been greatly impacted, losing its audience, this is a great opportunity to reinvent themselves and what theatre can be as well as its accessibility.
“As .ART marks this milestone it is truly a cause for celebration for the artistic world. Arlekin Players and our Zero Gravity Lab are honored to be beginning a new partnership with .ART right at this moment to explore virtual theater and make theater accessible to all. The potential of the .ART site to become a convening place, a site of creation and shared ideas, shows true vision by .ART’s founder, and we can’t wait to see what the future holds.” — Igor Golyak, Artistic Director, Arlekin Players Theatre, zerogravity.art
ARS ELECTRONICA
Always at the forefront of the discussion about innovation and technology, it is not surprising that Ars Electronica partnered with .ART to launch their first ever online arm to their 40 years old festival. This dual edition of Ars Electronica .ART Global Gallery and Ars Electronica .ART Pavilions featured hundreds of artists from across the globe.
CADAF
.ART partnered with CADAF as innovation partner on several occasions this year, including their editions of Digital Art Month. Between talks, compelling discussions, and safe events about art in this troubled year, CADAF renewed its way of looking at challenges and use creativity and art to soothe as well as innovate.
Visionary leadership
It is with great humility that .ART co-founder, Ulvi Kasimov, received the news that he was among the Top 50 Most Innovative Leaders in the Art World in 2020 by Observer. This Arts Power 50 recognize forward-thinking and thoughtful leaders & philanthropists that want to empower the artistic community and more.
To add to this very special nomination, our co-founder, Reikhan Kasimova, initiated the highly successful #FlowersForMedics charity campaign. The co-founders are rapidly becoming one of the leading power couples of the art world, showing their constant and authentic desire to support the creative community, all cross the world.
About .ART Domains
.ART is the only domain for the creative community, launched to the public in May 2017 under an exclusive agreement between a London-based company UK Creative Ideas Limited (UKCI) and ICANN, the Internet regulating body. To date, .ART has sold over 113 000 domains globally. It is the 29th biggest selling and 10th fastest growing domain among 1226 domain zones on the global namestat.org ranking, continually improving its position. The mission of .ART is to bring technology and art close enough to create a synergy that will take us all into a new future.
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