The first “Cyber Beijing·Digital Art Festival” sponsored by Linkdee, Titanium Media Group and CryptoC was held online from August 7th to August 10th.existRhythm BlockBeats in-depth author, encryption artist SleepyUnder the auspices ofCross-media artist, FXG VR Xigu technology co-founder Baiwei, visual artist, designer Xihe algorithm artist, encryption artist RevaA round table discussion with the theme “Encrypted Artist” was launched.
Visual artist and designer Xi said that there is no standard for encryption art, but certain standards will emerge as the artist, encryption culture, and NFT culture grow. Although the digital art works of various platforms, including those formed in various communities, are very rich, if compared with the traditional modern and contemporary art history, there are some repetitions of themes, and there is no standard for the application of technology.
Baiwei, a cross-media artist and co-founder of FXG VR Xigu Technology, said that the big difference between encrypted art and traditional art is decentralization. Many artists can create their own avatars and create themselves through various social media and various channels. All this can be done independently. Organizations such as DAO also allow art to have some new ways of expression. For example, creation is a collective creation, and the whole process is multi-frequency.
Algorithm artist and encryption artist Reva said that many platforms hope to make oriental-style artworks, but in fact, in the context of the global village, Eastern and Western cultures are mixed in encrypted artworks. Overseas artists are also doing obvious AI paintings of landscapes and presenting the Eastern world under the Western imagination. Many platforms hope that artists with obvious oriental elements will appear in order to seek cultural recognition.
Sleepy: The first question is, what do you understand about cryptographic art? What kind of artwork do you think is cryptographic art? Is there a certain encryption theme or creation of a new technology generated by an algorithm, what other standards do you think there are?
Baiwei: I think there is no standard. This is what I like. It is also the encryption art in my mind. It is a new medium. They are exploring in their own way what it is. I think the more mature technology is related to art, mainly Its concept of encryption, how to use blockchain technology to bring value to a work.
oo: I think there is no standard now. I think digital art works on various platforms, including works formed in various communities, are actually very, very rich. If you compare it with the traditional modern and contemporary art history, in fact, everyone You may see some repetitive themes, and of course there are some new themes based on some modern NFT subjects and blockchain themes, but I think there is still no standard at all, including technical applications. , I think the next thing that can produce new things may be this wave of people growing up with the encryption culture and NFT culture together, and playing together, I think there will be a certain standard in the future, I think it is too early.
Reva: Just now the two guests said that there is no standard. I think it should be because they are all doing digital art. Some time ago we had an exhibition and collected more than 2,000 NFT works, a large number of works. There is actually a category among them. The original physical works were taken abruptly and uploaded. This type of works accounted for at least 30%, 40%, and many more. At that time, we also observed carefully and put some works very large, and found evidence that it was a photo, because we can see that its texture is different. I don’t think it’s not to abandon physical media, but to say that since you’re doing something in the direction of digital art, it’s not sincere to take a photo directly. I’m not talking about judging what kind of encryption art is good or bad. Yes, it’s not about the evaluation criteria, but about what kind of encryption art or what kind of work is more like NFT in the sense that everyone accepts it.
I have the same idea as another curator. If I still use the original medium or take a picture, I don’t think it’s necessary. In fact, taking pictures like this loses the charm of the original physical works. It is an oil painting. Oil painting has a lot of texture in the real world, and its charm is often limited to the physical level. If you flatten it, take a photo and put it on it, I think this is not a good NFT work.
Sleepy: The next question, what do you think? More and more crypto artists and crypto art platforms are trying to find the so-called Chinese or Oriental style of art, and want to apply this style to crypto art works, everyone How do you think about this topic? Everyone thinks what kind of art works have oriental characteristics, because many people think of traditional architecture and ink painting when they mention Chinese characteristics or oriental characteristics, but in fact, the four of us do the best with Chinese characteristics. It’s Mr. Baiwei from Poland. I want to ask you what you think about this matter.
Baiwei: My background is a new work. In fact, it is an electronic ink painting and a work formed by Bitcoin’s K-line. This question can also be answered in this way, and the encryption art with oriental characteristics can be expressed in this way. But I don’t think there is any need to force it. You can force you to express Western or Eastern, or as an artist. What kind of art does he do may be reflected in certain concepts or visual parts. Some research done in this area or some topics in this area.
oo: For me, it’s still a purely personal feeling. Eastern or Western. In fact, the core is still some more representative cultures. Eastern culture or Western culture, the root may still lie in how everyone absorbs classic cultures in these two directions. Reflected in the work. For me, when I make a work, I have to look at both sides and learn from both sides. I’m always in a state of fighting. I see which work is suitable for extracting what kind of cultural inclination to do it.
I think the so-called Chinese style nowadays, I don’t like the word “suitable” very much, because the things left out are more superficial. As an artist, you must have deeper thinking. Eastern culture is also divided into many categories, such as Buddhism and Taoism. With Bushido, how do I absorb the definition, and whether it is related to Western contemporary art and philosophy, this system is still very large, so in terms of my current level and level, it is actually quite tender, so my Eastern or Western culture is now in the process of being formed.
Reva: I’ve talked about this issue many times before, and I can’t say too much about this topic, because I do not make the works with oriental elements particularly obvious, but I also know through the sensory evaluation of other works. , Still has an oriental cultural background, or something embodied with oriental romanticism, for example, there are some themes that like to do recurring, including the theme of dissipation. I have a work that is an ancient city. Your personality is three-dimensional analysis The work, I made it like a very strange relic, gradually dissipating, like weathering, the process itself is actually quite Eastern thinking in it, if you talk about Western culture, it may not be dissipated as a theme. .
Because I didn’t focus on the content of some themes of Eastern culture myself, the route I took was still a bit biased towards the Western system, but it didn’t look like it. In fact, it was relatively neutral in general. However, through communicating with everyone, the artist himself, as a person who grew up in an oriental cultural environment, must have more or less expressions from his own cultural background, so I don’t think it’s necessary to make a statement. Oriental-colored works are still trying to express what they want to express. As a matter of fact, everyone, whether they are in the East or the West, actually I think it is more or less a collection of mixed Eastern and Western cultures, because after all, it is now a global village. , So everyone’s horizons are gradually broadening, and we can also see that many overseas artists are also doing obvious AI landscape paintings. In previous exhibitions, we also saw that many of the Eastern worlds under the Western imagination were presented. I I think it’s also very interesting.
Therefore, there may be culture, which makes the other party more interested in digging. The more you dig, the more you find something expressible, which may naturally bring out some new collisions. Therefore, I am still open to this subject and feel that there is no need to do it hard. It is the artist’s personal idea. But I think the main reason behind the topics that platforms often talk about now lies in everyone’s thirst for their own culture. Our generation may be a generation that absorbs relatively more Eastern culture. In fact, everyone is very hopeful now. My own culture has been further promoted and recognized by the world, and national pride has increased, but there are still a lot of doubts about my own culture. Therefore, many platforms hope that such artists can appear, but also to satisfy the recognition of their own culture. Thirst.
Sleepy: Thank you, for the next question, Mr. Baiwei auctioned off his work some time ago, and he won rave reviews in the community. Xi also created many works for the community before and participated in many activities. Reva is a Chinese crypto artist. In other words, he took on the image of a mentor or pioneer and created a WeChat group of the Encrypted Artists Mutual Aid Association. Now he launched a WearDAO, so my next question is, what do you think of the current encrypted artists and communities? The relationship between them, because many artists in the traditional field, many people just ignore it after painting, and they will not do a lot of promotion and marketing activities by themselves, but the artists in the encryption field, after they have completed their creation, have to do it themselves. There is still a big difference between promoting yourself in the community, and promoting your own work on Twitter and various social media. So I want to ask you what you think about crypto artists and communities. relation.
Baiwei: I think this is a big difference from traditional art. It is decentralization. Many artists can create their own avatars. They can create themselves through various social media and various channels, and they can become a very famous artist. , And all in an independent situation, I think this is a very interesting thing. Of course, this also brings a burden, because after all, the operation and platform processing will take up a lot of time. This time could have been spent on creation, so this also has a sense of balance. In fact, I think that as long as they can spend most of their time on creation, many people will promote themselves, and there are also social issues, but I am still optimistic about spending time on creation.
In addition, some organizations like DAO also play a very important role. They are different from traditional art. Some organizations like this will have some new ways of expression. The creation is a collective creation, and the whole process is multi-frequency. , We can show this process and let people collect it.
oo: From a technical point of view, because I think that from the development of the Internet to the present, a person can do more and more things, and the technology has become easier and simpler. I just mentioned using Twitter. Doing everything with oneself, in fact, this is not impossible, just because everything has become simple, as Baiwei said just now, it may be a problem of balance. In terms of the community, when it was more like modern art, there were some artists chatting in cafes. Now the community is more like a cafe, allowing us to share our ideas together. The difference is that at the same time there are what we call The audience, we call family members or whatever, we can also interact with them. This is some very direct feedback from the big community.
An organization like the DAO is a relatively concentrated and targeted group, with its own responsibilities, its own direction, and it can clearly promote or do something.
Reva: Regarding the relationship with the community, in fact, I was the first to learn from the crypto art circle overseas, especially the more well-known crypto art platforms. They have organized many activities related to artists, whether it is official or artist. There are also some platforms that are organized spontaneously, and only the artists themselves are organized. They are specifically doing collaborations. There will be many different types of communities. In fact, I want to be a community in China based on the continuation and learning there, because such a community can get a lot of help. When I was particularly confused, I also experienced a period of time when no one knew me, let alone selling works. During that time, I was also relying on other artists in the community to encourage each other. I didn’t even say a word to watch their conversation. For a moment, I feel that such a community has such a small circle, in fact, it is a very good place or home for artists.
Including publicity on Twitter. In fact, the main reason for this is because there is no so-called institution in encrypted art. Therefore, if artists want to express themselves or let more people understand their ideas, it can only be through person-to-person transmission, an actual organization. It is the community, platform party or self-organization, or Twitter and ins for publicity, that is, the artist himself is operated as an Ip. I think there is nothing to evade this matter, and it should be promoted in this way or increase its own influence. force.
In China, we are a community. We launched a WeChat group and launched a DAO. The reason is also the same, because encrypted artists need to grow together in a way of mutual assistance. In fact, I slowly discovered many domestic artists, no matter what platform or attribute. , Because there are also some artists whose routes are different from ours. They are mainly developed in China, and they don’t know much about the native communities overseas, but I can also find that he has acquired some essence, how to make everyone recognize him in the community An artist with such behavioral attributes is also likely to help him encrypt the identity of the artist. So many people have realized or are developing in this direction, but it takes time and effort to do this, especially in the early stage, this process is even more necessary, which is the same as when you make friends, you don’t talk, you don’t express , No one knows you, let alone the next thing. In the later period, it depends on the artist himself. I think it is completely OK to ask the community and the artist to help each other.
Sleepy: The last question, you can introduce some of your future plans, including works that you may want to post, or some exhibition activities, and send some messages to other newcomers who want to enter the encryption art industry.
Baiwei: First of all, I hope to go deep into my thoughts and concepts and walk into the CryptoMetaverse route. I have also been exploring what encryption art looks like from my perspective. I still hope to explore it from a personal perspective and through continuous creation. In addition, there are some new plans. I still believe that the Crypto series has new cryptocurrencies in cooperation with artificial intelligence and artists. The work behind me is Bitcoin, and I will do more next. I also look forward to the progress of NFT. The following words are also a new expression, so I have been exploring and trying this aspect. There may be some spirit in the traditional field.
oo: For newcomers, my strongest suggestion is to listen to all the audios. Read all the content of this conference. I don’t think it’s too scattered to watch. My next plan may be to try some programs. Works on collaboration with programmers.
Reva: What kind of program, can I do it together? I have always had an idea myself, and I am a little scared, but I think I still have to try it. I am going to add some of my own drama creations, which may be hand-painted or other forms of creation, such as my current background. This is an activity on the 10th, which is equivalent to an information collection. It is a very useful tool to collect information on different currencies. Connie Daco and their image are just a map. The work done this time is divided into three levels. , It is also their official cooperation. This is a purely charity event. The sales proceeds must be handed over to charity organizations or chat with their officials. Other Legendaries are in the direction of charity. Now my background is Rear. Participate in the event. You can get it.
Here I tried to add my own hand-painted part, there is a gecko image, but the textures in the middle are what I used to add. It is my own attempt. In the future, it may be hand-painted or other directions. I didn’t think too much. , Because the reason why I have not moved in this direction is because I feel that my overall hand-painted style is very different from the work I have made now. It is possible that once I draw it, everyone does not know that I made this, but I think it is still Want to try.
Because there are many themes, some of the themes are difficult to express in a way that is not similar or hand-painted. This problem is caused by algorithm generation. It is more about cooperation with computers and technology. There will be certain restrictions on the transmission of a communication. , The degree of freedom has been opened in a certain way, but it has been restricted. Hand-painting is another creative thinking. The dynamic hindrance of hand-painting is very big. You can know by looking at the works of Mr. Baiwei and I will try in this direction.
Sleepy: I hope you will pay more attention to Baiwei, Xi and Reva. This round table is over, thank you for watching.
What is “Cyber Beijing Digital Art Festival”?
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