Month: October 2021

Intervention: Kexin Fang

Kexin is one of the stakeholders I have reached since July.

The first time she heard about NFT is this early year, and she joined my community to start her career.

Here’s a topic we talked about before.

What was the first time you heard about Crypto Art and NFT?

This early year, but learned the knowledge from the community 

Your NFT experiences (When you start, how you feel about creating and selling, and different platforms…

It’s kinda same in the traditional world. Artists sold their works because of their reputation, if it’s nobody, then same work as the traditional artists. However, thanks to the emergence, less competition makes me easier to make some noise. It’s the same to the platforms, the newer the better. Hhicetnunc is quite a new one that you recommended to me. And as you suggested, I put the artwork on Twitter, then they come forward to me.

To what extent do you think the community (I built one in August) could support emerging artists, in both art markets?

It really helps, I’ve learned a lot from that and we helped each other, which is super useful at the beginning of a new world.

Traditional industry VS NFT market (accessibility, artworks, artists, exhibitions…

I prefer the one who helps me gain money hahaha. But still, the crypto world is much polite to our new artists.

Have you changed your attitudes towards NFT?

Yeah definitely. But I still couldn’t understand like people sell digital shoes and they even sold out. This is a ridiculous world but sometimes we don’t have to care that much.

This is the link to the whole conversation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f4YrkRKBCLd3-PGvke3WNs4RyVhHwWTD/view?usp=sharing

Besides the education and NFT, I suggested putting artworks on Twitter and engaging with Discord.

Then she successfully sold 2 pieces which is exciting on hicetnunc.com

https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/koyoung

Reflective writing:

To help a nameless artist to sell their artwork is such a long journey. And Kexin is not the only artist that I am working with.

Even the NFT hype its decentralization, people still need to find community and work together, which is the same in inherent tradition. This is not an ideal world for individuals. Though we still have to work on that.

This is the conversation that I recently interviewed Kexin.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f4YrkRKBCLd3-PGvke3WNs4RyVhHwWTD/view?usp=sharing

Reflective writing – research question

After reviewing feedback from dragons, they all mentioned that I might need to narrow down the question again and create my own niche. It leads me to think seriously if my question should be back to focus on the artists again.

However, I want to make clear first that the main reason I developed my intervention to educate art lovers rather than cooperating with the emerging artists, is there’s not much solid soil to cultivate the artists yet. During my early conversations, it always happens that the stakeholders have no idea about the Crypto world for many reasons. There is a gap between Chinese artists and NFT at that moment. So I think education might be the emergency step for them.

I believe my last several interventions towards Chinese art lovers were successful, meanwhile, the tutors’ narrowing down the question feedback is justified. It’s time for me to set the stakeholders back to emerging Chinese artists again.

All the interventions and conversations wouldn’t be wasted, they’re all the process of my question.

After reading: How to Fly a Horse by Kevin Ashton

When talking with potential stakeholders, there’s always a sound showing that: I just don’t like the idea of NFT, NFT is all about money. But soon I found that they even mixed the idea of NFT and crypto art, and ignored the difference between technology and art. They even don’t know what they are hating for, and they just hate it.

I know this is kind of the last stage of my project in my MA, I should focus on the stakeholders who I already reached. However, it is vital for me to understand in-depth why people are standing on the other side.

The book ‘How to Fly a Horse’ corroborated my thoughts. People tend to reject new things, or at least be sceptical. When we are in a familiar situation, the firing speed of the hippocampal cells in the brain is hundreds of times faster than in the new environment. The hippocampus connects two nerve plexuses, called amygdalae (amygdalae)-derived from the Greek word almond-responsible for our emotions. The hippocampus is connected to the amygdala, which is one of the reasons why we like familiarity and reject strangers.

When the brain has a response, we will follow suit and avoid evil. When new things appear, the hippocampus will not find relevant memories and will send strange signals to the amygdala, which makes us feel uncertain. Uncertainty is disgusting, and we always avoid this state as much as possible. Psychologists have proved this with many experiments. Uncertainty makes us like the old and dislike the new, and prevents us from accepting new ideas, even if we think we value them or are good at creating.

Those who rejected to know the NFT are rejecting most of the new things in their life. There’s nothing I can do rather just say I understand.

P.S the definition of Luddism:

Luddism was a working-class movement opposed to the political consequences of industrial capitalism. The Luddites wanted technology to be deployed in ways that made work more humane and gave workers more autonomy. The bosses, on the other hand, wanted to drive down costs and increase productivity