Atlans is a project company, involved in cultural management and projects within the creative and arts domain, as well as implementing cutting-edge technology. Over the last 35 years, we have collaborated with and worked for numerous renowned brands and large organizations, including Swarovski, Red Bull, Daimler AG, Porsche, Greenpeace, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, WWF, IKEA, VELUX, FIFA, DFB, as well as institutions like the City of Vienna, the United Nations, the Federal Government of Germany, and the Government of the Emirate of Sharjah. Additionally, we have partnered with leading research organizations such as NASA, Harvard University, MIT, DLR, several Fraunhofer Institutes, and the University of Vienna.

Among these projects were groundbreaking initiatives, including the development of a method digitizing Austria: From 1989 to 1999, a team of 250 experts from the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying and the Federal Data Processing Center digitized with our method all maps of Austria—the largest digitization project in the country’s history, the Austria Digital Cadastral Map. Other notable achievements include the creation of the world’s first “Virtual World” in collaboration with Prof. Tokoro of Sony Computer Labs, Tokyo, and Prof. Loeffler from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in 1993—a technology that later evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry.

AI-supported Art Authentication is one of our new projects. This new business domain has the potential to revolutionize the art market by combining cutting-edge AI technology with traditional validation methods to identify genuine masterpieces amidst a sea of forgeries. There are many owners of artworks claiming originality. By using AI to quickly and accurately assess the likelihood of authenticity, we are in a superior position to identify the most interesting works, allowing our experts to focus on these most promising pieces.

Information on past projects can be found at the website of Atlans founder Christian Bauer: https://chrisbauer.com. But here, on the following pages, we present our new project initiative, AI-supported Art Authentication.