ProjectAugust 12, 2020
Phillips Announces Exclusive Partnership with Technology Firm Articker
Phillips announces the debut of Articker, a groundbreaking proprietary technology product that aggregates open-source data on artists and artworks, providing unique insights into emerging market trends. Developed in partnership between Phillips’ digital team and Articker, the platform will provide Phillips clients with unprecedented visibility on emerging trends in the art world and will expand and enrich Phillips’ robust digital growth through advanced open-source intelligence on artists and artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Articker (founded in 2014) tracks the global art publishing world, with a database comprising more than 16,000 online publications and accumulating information from 50,000 other editorial sources, including galleries, museums, and art fairs, aggregated in real-time. Articker was created by Tomasz Imielinski, a pioneer in the field of association rule learning and a professor of computer science at Rutgers University; and Konrad Imielinski, a data scientist specializing in search technology and economics.
Designed as an ever-growing open source database, Articker will broaden over time providing more robust information and digital content on Phillips, distinguishing the auction house as a destination for research and analysis for artists and artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. For example, artist Amoako Boafo, whose painting The Lemon Bathing Suit marked the artists’ debut at auction in 2019, sold at Phillips for £675,000 more than twenty times its low estimate. Articker data on Boafo indicates that the artist’s media presence has increased by 82% over the past 18 months. Similarly, Phillips debuted artist Tschabalala Self’s work Lilith at auction in 2019, tripling its low estimate to sell for £125,000. Articker data shows that Self’s media presence has increased by 174% in the past 18 months. These cases illustrate the correlation of art market trends to media trends, with Articker offering invaluable insight as to who the emerging talents of the future might be.
Articker (founded in 2014) tracks the global art publishing world, with a database comprising more than 16,000 online publications and accumulating information from 50,000 other editorial sources, including galleries, museums, and art fairs, aggregated in real-time. Articker was created by Tomasz Imielinski, a pioneer in the field of association rule learning and a professor of computer science at Rutgers University; and Konrad Imielinski, a data scientist specializing in search technology and economics.
Designed as an ever-growing open source database, Articker will broaden over time providing more robust information and digital content on Phillips, distinguishing the auction house as a destination for research and analysis for artists and artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. For example, artist Amoako Boafo, whose painting The Lemon Bathing Suit marked the artists’ debut at auction in 2019, sold at Phillips for £675,000 more than twenty times its low estimate. Articker data on Boafo indicates that the artist’s media presence has increased by 82% over the past 18 months. Similarly, Phillips debuted artist Tschabalala Self’s work Lilith at auction in 2019, tripling its low estimate to sell for £125,000. Articker data shows that Self’s media presence has increased by 174% in the past 18 months. These cases illustrate the correlation of art market trends to media trends, with Articker offering invaluable insight as to who the emerging talents of the future might be.
