Blog posts about about USEUM
USEUM featured on The Bartlett Doctoral Review 2018: Democratising Art through the 'Museum without walls'
USEUM is featured in The UCL Bartlett Doctoral Review 2018 for its contribution towards increasing access to art online.
Βringing Technological Innovation to the Museum Experience
Research has always been a central part of USEUM and the last few months we have been working intensively on the development of an innovative application that has the potential to help museums and galleries address the ever-increasing financial challenges they are facing, whilst enabling the dissemination of art beyond the walls of the museum.
Introducing "Search" for Free Downloadable Artworks
We are excited to announce the ability to search all copyright-free artworks that you can download from USEUM! Now whenever you start searching, you are presented with the following option to "Search in Free Artworks"!
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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.
Organising Art Online: New Menu just Launched!
We’re delighted to announce the launch of our new menu, which structures and organises the wealth of visual and educational content available on the platform!
Free art e-cards with our app for iPhone!
Send 80,000 artworks (including all famous Old Masters!) as an e-card to your friends with USEUM for iPhone!
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.
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
Open Call: Exhibition for World Child Cancer Charity
USEUM Exhibition opening (Photos)
Few days ago, on the 6th of October 2015, we celebrated the opening of USEUM’s first ever exhibition in collaboration with Le Dame Art Gallery at Melia White House in London. The evening was a great success, full of art in the form of 23 beautiful paintings from 16 countries from 4 continents around the world. Music by professional pianist Fabio Tedde and award-winning wine by Domain Spiropoulos made the evening even more special.
USEUM Exhibition
Le Dame Art Gallery and USEUM are delighted to announce that throughout October they will host the first exhibition witnessing the collaboration between the prestigious gallery and the rapidly growing online art platform. The aim of this synergy is to bring emerging talent in the areas of painting, drawing and illustration from the Internet to the heart of the art world in London.
Interview of the founder of USEUM Foteini Valeonti for the Greek newspaper "Agora"
Call for artists: USEUM Gallery Event in London
We are proud to announce our new partnership with Le Dame Art Gallery operating between London (UK) and Capri (Italy). To celebrate our partnership we are hosting USEUM's first ever gallery event!
USEUM, our Art Technology Platform, in The Times!
