E-flux is acting as an adviser to UKCI, a UK-based company that signed an agreement with ICANN to administer the .art domain in August 2016. “There are maybe 6,000 art institutions and perhaps half of them have no reference to visual art in their names,” Vidokle says. Under Vidokle’s plan, e-flux will give art professionals and artists the opportunity to register a .art domain for a three-month period, after which the suffix will become more generally available. In its role as an arts organisation producing magazines, running a New York exhibition space and various affiliated arts projects, the body could offer UKCI, the owner of the .art domain, guidance. Others who have signed up but not switched include the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and DIA Art Foundation.

Source: The Guardian March 12, 2017 07:52 UTC