Becoming Digital - Onboarding Local Artist Projects to the Blockchain

2018年，我们在利物浦建立了创意社区公益协会，拥有为艺术家、音乐家、电影制作人和作家创建数字内容的经验，共同为Smithdown Social Arts Hub创建了一个数字平台，为艺术家寻求创新和数字机会，为艺术家创造收入。作为加密货币的早期采用者，我们对区块链技术的快速崛起感兴趣，尤其是不可替代令牌(NFT)，这种技术为数字艺术品分配了智能合同，使艺术家能够更好地控制销售、合作伙伴、佣金、这一发现导致我们对自2021年6月以来在455画廊展出的60多名当地传统和数字艺术家进行了调查，发现没有人产生过NFT，也不了解入职流程。我们的项目将通过一个教育过程揭开一群本地艺术家使用NFT的神秘面纱，该教育过程将提供详细的NFT和区块链技术教育，通过创建个人加密货币钱包将艺术家加入区块链，并帮助他们创建并在全球最大的NFT市场OpenSea上创建一系列NFT，以试验NFT对本地艺术家的好处。

In 2018 we established a community benefit society for creatives in Liverpool with experience of creating digital content for artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers that collectively created a digital platform for Smithdown Social Arts Hub that sought innovative and digital opportunities to generate income for artists.As early adopters of cryptocurrency, we were interested in the rapid rise in the use of blockchain technology, particularly non-fungible tokens (NFTs), that assigned smart contracts to digital artwork which gave artists more control over the sale, partners, commissions, and future sales of their work.This discovery led to a survey of the over 60 local traditional and digital artists we had exhibited at Gallery 455 since June 2021 and realised none had generated an NFT and had no understanding of the onboarding process.Our project will demystify the use of NFTs for a group of local artists through an educational process that will provide detailed NFT and blockchain technology education, onboard artists onto the blockchain through creating individual cryptocurrency wallets, and help them to create and mint a series of NFTs onto the world's largest NFT marketplace, Opensea, in order to trial the benefits of NFTs for local artists.