Who it is for
Three different people meet Artheia at three different moments. Here is what each of them needs, before starting rather than after.
The artist
- What they do
- Registers their works, uploads the photographs, signs the declaration of authorship and hands it back signed.
- What they need
- A qualified electronic signature, at a provider, activated with their own credentials. Artheia neither supplies it nor holds it.
- What they get
- A certificate for each work, and a chip that binds it to the object.
Artheia checks identity by hand, and it is not immediate. Until it is checked no work can be registered: this is the state every newly registered artist is in, and it is said here so it is not discovered afterwards.
The gallery
- What they do
- Declares on behalf of an artist, with their mandate, and follows the cases of the works it handles.
- What they need
- A written mandate from the artist, uploaded to the platform. Artheia approves it by hand, and only after approval can the gallery declare on the artist's behalf.
- What they get
- The ability to bring the works it handles into certificate, without the artist having to follow every step.
On every certificate declared by a gallery the public record says so: whoever is looking must know that the artist did not declare in person.
The collector
- What they do
- Verifies a work in hand, or a code printed on a certificate.
- What they need
- A phone. No account, no app to install, nothing to hand over.
- What they get
- The record of the work, and the document the artist signed.
The tap and the code do not prove the same thing. The code proves the certificate exists; the tap proves that certificate is on that object, and it is the only one of the two that opens the photographs and the document.