Kreu­zlin­gen, Switzer­land, 24 August 2022 – Smart­Stamp, the pio­neer­ing new stan­dard in iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and authen­ti­ca­tion for the art world, today announced major col­lab­o­ra­tions, timed to the launch of the new Smart­Stamp App in the Google Play Store on 1 Sep­tem­ber. Across an artwork’s jour­ney — from the stu­dio, to stor­age, to the col­lec­tor, gallery, or muse­um wall — Smart­Stamp is a long-term man­age­ment and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion solu­tion for any­one involved in the cre­ation, preser­va­tion, and pro­tec­tion of cul­tur­al objects. The new Smart­Stamp App lever­ages patent­ed state-of-the-art anti-coun­ter­feit tech­nol­o­gy and AI to bring the ground­break­ing secu­ri­ty and time­stamp­ing pow­er of blockchain to the art world.

In addi­tion to mount­ing a VIP pro­gram in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Frieze Seoul next month, the tech com­pa­ny con­tin­ues its col­lab­o­ra­tion with Metagold­en by pro­vid­ing its patent­ed AI tech­nol­o­gy to phys­i­cal­ly – dig­i­tal­ly link an emer­ald and gold ring with its NFT coun­ter­part in the upcom­ing Sotheby’s jew­el­ry auc­tion on 24 Sep­tem­ber. Smart­Stamp has also embarked on a new rela­tion­ship with Digi­vault, an FCA-reg­is­tered dig­i­tal assets cus­to­di­an, bol­ster­ing SmartStamp’s high­ly secure tech­nol­o­gy with the strength of Digivault’s gov­ern­ment grade vaults, escrow, and OTC services.

SmartStamp is Official Frieze Week Seoul Partner
3 September: Talk with Kimsooja

Smart­Stamp, as Offi­cial Part­ner of Frieze Week Seoul on 2 – 5 Sep­tem­ber, hosts a talk for invit­ed guests for inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned artist Kim­soo­ja, intro­duced by Alexan­dra Munroe (Direc­tor, Cura­to­r­i­al Affairs at the Guggen­heim Abu Dhabi; Senior Cura­tor, Asian Art and Senior Advi­sor, Glob­al Arts at the Solomon R. Guggen­heim Muse­um). Kim­soo­ja whose work will be pre­sent­ed by Axel Ver­vo­ordt Gallery at KIAF, has been work­ing close with Smart­Stamp over the past two years to address authen­tic­i­ty, own­er­ship, and grow­ing IP con­cerns, espe­cial­ly for artists cre­at­ing con­cep­tu­al and ephemer­al works. An insti­tu­tion­al instal­la­tion artist whose work is high­ly rec­og­niz­able, Kim­soo­ja embraced ear­ly on the ways that tech­nol­o­gy can pro­tect her work and IP from counterfeiting.

The Frieze talk will offer insights into how the artist is lever­ag­ing new tech­nolo­gies to sup­port her work, and explore her recent and upcom­ing projects, includ­ing her 2021 Leeum Muse­um com­mis­sion and the Sep­tem­ber unveil­ing of her stained-glass cathe­dral win­dows for the Saint Étienne de Metz’s 800^th anniver­sary — mak­ing her the first woman to con­tribute a design, as well as the first non-Euro­pean and first 21^st-cen­tu­ry artist to do so. The talk will also con­sid­er SmartStamp’s inter­ven­tion into the mar­ket more broad­ly in the con­text of art, tech, AI, and the blockchain. To fur­ther sup­port artists’ lega­cies, Smart­Stamp has cre­at­ed the first smart con­tract roy­al­ties dig­i­tal­ly linked through AI fin­ger­print­ing to their phys­i­cal creations.

SmartStamp x Digivault Partnership

Smart­Stamp has embarked on a part­ner­ship with Digi­vault, an FCA-reg­is­tered dig­i­tal assets cus­to­di­an in May­fair Lon­don, fol­low­ing a break­through case study com­bin­ing both com­pa­nies’ tech­nol­o­gy and resources to authen­ti­cate, record, and secure a series of Gor­don Che­ung paint­ings from his July 2022 exhi­bi­tion at Almine Rech Gallery Paris. The process spans authen­ti­ca­tion of the works via the Smart­Stamp App AI, and cre­ation of blockchain NFTs (non-fun­gi­ble tokens) rep­re­sent­ing the cre­ator roy­al­ties of the works and stor­age of the NFTs with­in Digivault’s gov­ern­ment grade vaults. The NFTs will be stored until a sec­ondary mar­ket trans­ac­tion of the phys­i­cal paint­ings, with due dili­gence of the trans­fer sup­port­ed through Digivault’s oper­a­tions and cryp­to escrow ser­vice. Fol­low­ing the suc­cess of the case study, the automa­tion from Smart­Stamp App’s smart con­tract NFTs to Digi­vault cus­tody will be an option­al fea­ture for Smart­Stamp users by ear­ly next year.

SmartStamp x Metagolden

24 September: Sotheby’s Art as Jewelry as Art Auction

After a suc­cess­ful col­lab­o­ra­tion on a dig­i­tal­ly-phys­i­cal­ly linked sculp­ture for sale on Moda Operan­di and the mar­ket excite­ment for phys­i­cal­ly linked dig­i­tal assets in the lux­u­ry sec­tor, Smart­Stamp and Metagold­en are deep­en­ing their part­ner­ship to bring phy­gi­tal authen­ti­ca­tion to fash­ion and high end design. Smart­Stamp is the authen­ti­ca­tion tech­nol­o­gy solu­tion of choice for the pre­mier of an NFT-linked emer­ald and gold ring by Metagold­en, the web3 empo­ri­um that cou­ples dig­i­tal art with fine jew­el­ry and 18K gold. Express­ly cre­at­ed for Sotheby’s Art as Jew­el­ry as Art, a first-of-its-kind auc­tion of artists’ jew­el­ry on Sep­tem­ber 24, the ring is the only NFT-linked jew­el­ry piece in the auc­tion. The inclu­sion in the auc­tion lends cre­dence to NFTs and dig­i­tal art as a new chan­nel for cre­ation and authen­ti­ca­tion, one embod­ied by the spir­it of innovation.

Launch of the SmartStamp App

1 September: Available in the Google Play Store

The Smart­Stamp App is avail­able for Android on the S21 Ultra 5G with macro lens, on 1 Sep­tem­ber in the Google Play Store, with an iOS ver­sion com­ing at the end of this year. The App will be avail­able through tiered sub­scrip­tion options, rang­ing from per object to pre­mi­um lev­el. Ear­ly adopters can down­load the app for a 30-day free tri­al in Sep­tem­ber. Learn more about the App and see a demo here.

Images (top to bot­tom): Smart­Stamp app, Cour­tesy of Smart­Stamp; Kim­soo­ja, To Breathe, 2021, Site-spe­cif­ic instal­la­tion with dif­frac­tion grat­ing film, Cour­tesy of Leeum Muse­um of Art and Kim­soo­ja Stu­dio. Pho­to by Seung­beom Hur; Gor­don Che­ung, Gar­den of Per­fect Bright­ness, 2022, Cour­tesy of the artist and SmartStamp.