Giovanna Montani and Chiara Palmieri created Artchivium to offer to public institutions and private foundations tools required to exploit and promote their cultural patrimony through art-related advertising and communication initiatives utilizing new technologies.
In December 2009, the company offered the first art-related application for iPhone, iPod Touch devices as official guides for exhibitions. The interest shown by the public and institutions has allowed to the company to propose a new project, the first of its kind in Italy, to create a mobile portal of multiplatform thematic applications.
The i-MiBAC project has been developed in collaboration with the Italian Ministry for Arts and Culture.
Giovanna has a PhD in History and Art and Architectural Conservation from the Università degli Studi “Roma Tre", in 2005 she received her diploma in Archival Science, Palaeography and Diplomatics from the Archivio di Stato in Rome and in June 2009 she graduated from the Scuola di Biblioteconomia of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
Her major area of specialization is artistic output in pre-Unification Italy, with special emphasis on the art world in Rome from the standpoint of patronage and the national and international market.
Since 2005 she has worked with the Archivio di Stato di Roma and a number of public institutes including the National Gallery of Modern Art GNAM, the Centro di Ateneo per lo studio di Roma at the Università degli Studi “Roma Tre”, and the Biblioteca del Senato della Repubblica.
E-mail: Giovanna
In 2010 she has been curating the project of the first "LUISS Master of Art: new careers for cultural heritage", at the Università LUISS Guido Carli.
E-mail: Chiara