Nicholas Eastaugh
- Organisation
- Vasarik
- Biography
- Dr Nicholas Eastaugh originally trained as a physicist before going on to study conservation and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where he completed a PhD in scientific analysis and documentary research of historical pigments. Since 1989 he has been a consultant in the scientific and art technological study of paint and paintings. A frequent lecturer, he was an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford 2003-2017. In 1999 he co-founded the Pigmentum Project, an interdisciplinary research group for historical pigments and other artists’ materials that published the Pigment Compendium in 2004, which remains a standard reference text in the field. Dr Eastaugh founded Art Analysis & Research in 2009, a company specialised in the scientific studies of artworks. He left to create Vasarik, where they are now applying novel data-driven and AI-based solutions to build robust solutions to a broad range of art historical problems.
Speaker on
The Trust Paradox: When Expert AI Agents Act as Both Informant and Impostor
Session
10/16/2026
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10:50 - 11:20