About the Speakers:
Dr. Carina Popovici is a Co-founder and CEO of Art Recognition, an ArtTech startup based in Zurich. The company offers to art experts and enthusiasts an AI Engine for art authentication and forgery detection. While being an art lover, Carina is also an experienced programmer, having developed in the past algorithms with applications in physics and finance. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and has previously worked as a quantitative risk specialist at in Swiss banking. Driven by her passion for art, Carina embarked on the entrepreneurial path and founded Art Recognition. Today, the company stands out as one of the few startups in the art market that operates at the forefront of AI technology.
Dr. Noah Charney (b. 1979) is the internationally best-selling author of more than thirty books, translated into fourteen languages, including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Museum of Lost Art, which was the finalist for the 2018 Digital Book World Award. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, American University of Rome and University of Ljubljana. He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a ground-breaking research group (www.artcrimeresearch.org) and teaches on their annual summer-long Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection. He has written for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper. He writes for TED and presents on television and radio, including a BBC series called China’s Stolen Treasures and programs for The Great Courses. He is an advisor to Art Recognition and lives in Slovenia with his wife, children and their hairless dog, Hubert van Eyck. Learn more at www.noahcharney.com.
Moderator: Irina Tarsis, attorney and Founding Director of the Center for Art Law. She is a professor of art and museum law specializing in provenance research, artists’ rights, and responsible art market practices, and has taught at Columbia University, Cardozo School of Law, FIT, and LUISS University.
