Blog posts about Foteini Valeonti
Congratulations to Dr Foteini Valeonti, CASA’s latest PhD
The PhD project behind USEUM was completed successfully last Thursday, a milestone that gives us great strength to continue pursuing our mission of making art accessible to all.
Interview about USEUM on the Enterprise Europe Network
Foteini Valeonti, founder of USEUM, had the honour to be interviewed by WEgate, a network promoting women's entrepreneurship in Europe. The interview, which can be found below, was also promoted by the Enterprise Europe Network!
With a background in computer science and interactive digital media, Foteini Valeonti started USEUM during her PhD studies at University College London under the title ‘Making Art more Accessible with Crowdsourcing’. The project benefitted from seed-funding and it is the first-ever crowdsourced art museum. Today, it employs 14 people and WEgate wanted to know how it all started.
Greek pupils of the Primary School of London visit USEUM
Last week the pupils of the Primary Greek School of London were taken on a virtual tour in the World's Art Museum, USEUM, by its founder Foteini Valeonti!
USEUM on Crowdsourcing Week Global Conference
USEUM’s Founder and Managing Director Foteini Valeonti presented the company and its mission of making art easily accessible, by utilising crowdsourcing and gamification. The presentation was very well received with people tweeting about it!
USEUM Joins the Open Data Movement: Old Masters Paintings Available to Download
Access to images of paintings has always been a complex matter, however with constantly more museums releasing their collections to the Public Domain, we were able to simplify access to all these works of art. For the first time, USEUM makes it easy to search, browse and obtain Public Domain paintings, all in one platform.
Foteini Valeonti at Crowdsourcing Week Global
Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016, is the fourth annual global conference on crowd economy, offering an unparalleled view on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation. Foteini Valeonti will be there, presenting USEUM: The Crowdsourced Museum of Art. If you are in London, don't miss it!
Art against Child Cancer
An article about USEUM and its recent partenrship with World Child Cancer in launching a charity exhibition of contemporary art.
Written by Andreas Giannopoulos, for the greek publishing company Protothema.gr
Foteini Valeonti on the Bartlett Annual Review
Interview of the founder of USEUM Foteini Valeonti for the Greek newspaper "Agora"
USEUM, our Art Technology Platform, in The Times!
USEUM Presentation at Anatolia School of Business
Thinking out Loud
London-based Art Startup USEUM Reaches First Million
USEUM, the 1st prize winner of Athens Start-up Weekend 2012
