How Can I Invite Chinese Artists into Crypto World?
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It’s a human defence mechanism to reject the unfamiliar without giving it a chance; change is hard to stomach, something that unsettles the status quo. Human nature pushes back at first blush rather than learn about and accept something new for what it is—a potential advance and step forward. NFTs are just such a transformative phenomenon, a potential revolution in the history of art and its dissemination into the collective stream of consciousness, and commerce! This show will attempt to do what no one has done before! FOCUS ON THE ART, art from a wide, diverse universe of talent from all walks of life.
Kenny Schachter, curator of NFTism: No Fear in Trying
I have to confess that I was so nervous every time when I was asked what NFT is or how to join NFT for the past few months since I have started this project.
Doubtlessly, this is a big question, and as everybody knows, what is behind the blockchain is a complex algorithm that 99% person would never figure out. However, I felt so pressured when I have to provide a perfect and integral answer for the question because I don’t want to let them down.
But why should everybody know everything about NFT?
I still don’t know how these stock works, but I buy my breakfast smoothly every day and could appreciate the artworks well in galleries. The technology thing would never be the star in the art world unless some artists wanna create some pieces about that. Art is always concerned with feeling, aesthetics is always about what we sense. It is regret that we turned away from Crypto Art just because we don’t know blockchain, besides the squares is never the thing.
For now, I’d like to leave the techs away, focus on the art itself. What Crypto Art could be different from traditional Art? What we could bring to Crypto Art in this era? As an art lover, what can I bring to my stakeholders?
However, the stakeholders won’t change under this situation, because my role is more like an art dealer, I need to associate with artists and buyers and relevant art workers at the same time.
Fortunately, I feel more confident about what I am doing.
I’ve been asked so many times what Crypto Art, NFT and blockchain is, by my Chinese friends, English friends, and even new friends I met when I go swimming… However, I didn’t explain exactly the same every time, there might be some points I neglected from time to time. After my friend Duan complained again to me that the information online is too hard and too long to understand, finally I decided to sort out my own version that could be accepted by most people.
In addition, I’d like to speak for the people who couldn’t understand the concept well, among them might be well-educated people who are experts in their own fields, or even bankers and artists who are following Art news regularly, and they still couldn’t get the idea well. Because there might be too much professional vocabulary interspersed in the articles, like NFT, blockchain and Hash, which is the barrier that would never be the core in the art world.
As following is Youlin’s explanation of Crypto Art:
People used to buy artwork in galleries, the work most likely to be physical instead of digital.1
The digital art world is booming today, therefore someone proposed that it is time for people to pay the digital artist’s contribution.
Benefiting from blockchain technology2, digital artwork could be given a series of number3, which is allowing the track of the artwork. Consequently, people began trading in this world. The artwork in this world is called Crypto Art.
Yusi:
My original intention to set up this version is to help people understand Crypto Art easier, help them feel less worried about complicated definitions of new words and the new technology (Neophobia). It is a stepping stone for everyone who is willing to see the world inside. Thus, it defines the characteristics of the “explanation”-short and incomplete.
I am pretty satisfied with the current version, as many of my interviewees said that this is easy to understand, which had reached my goal. But as Yusi suggested, I have to think deeper than how could I invite more gamers. Also, this is just a brief to Crypto Art, there is much more that I could talk about.
What I told Cai:
My question:
What Cai told me:
Next step:
Report draft:
I created an Instagram platform aiming to share my knowledge and promoting my artists.
But I am still not sure what would my page looks like. Is it going to be
For many Chinese Artists and collectors, using the platform is a big issue, so I made a manual for the tutorial.
I’ve sent it to my 2 stakeholders, waiting for their feedback…
I met Yusi in 2015 when we began our bachelor degree. Now she is studying painting at Shanghai Normal University. As following is a brief of our conversation.
Yusi had heart about NFTs and Crypto Art, but only a bit. She thinks she would be in the top per cent of the Chinses, cause rare students would talk about it, and even the tutors didn’t know about it. Mostly they got news from their friends who are studying abroad.
So I introduced the concept and the big news in the Crypto world to her.
Some problems we found that could not solve immediately for Chinese artists :
For collectors:
From Yusi’s perspective, promoting the digital exhibition could be a way that promotes crypto artwork. In China, most people do not know about Crypto art yet, which means there’s also a huge space to do something.
During the conversation, we also talked about our views towards Chinese and “western” painting. We both agree that they are so different that will appeal to a different audience. Though personally, I like the Chinese style more, because of the typical Chinese aesthetics, while Yusi would prefer the “western”, due to the creative expression. This is a big topic and we discussed it a lot but this is a crypto blog so I won’t talk more. Anyway, it’s good to know the different attitudes.
For the next step of my intervention, I shall focus on the promotion of digital art. Also, let more Chinese artists know more about Crypto art.
A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is an entity with no central leadership. Decisions get made from the bottom-up, governed by a community organized around a specific set of rules enforced on a blockchain. DAOs are internet-native organizations collectively owned and managed by their members.
Yuxin is my CSM classmate, she currently is working at BCA as a curator.
BCA is a full-category blockchain art NFT platform that integrates blockchain art creation, investment collection and education output. It is centred on MetaOpus and is committed to creating a person Encrypted art ecosystem where everyone can participate.
As following is the summary of our conversation:
I used to believe that some people criticize that digital art is not “real” art, but who decides what is “real” art? After the conversation with Yuxi, also the study of Bohan, I will first propose that physical art is not real art, real art only exists in digital In the world. In fact, art is art, and it can appear in any form. The reason why art is amazing is that it does not need to be widely admired, it is only created for creation.
BCA is a pioneer organisation in China, it is so lucky for me that being Yuxin’s classmate. She told me a lot of information about the BCA that I couldn’t share here, but it is so important for me to understand more about the Chinese crypto industry.