Becoming Digital - Onboarding Local Artist Projects to the Blockchain

2018年，我们在利物浦建立了一个创意社区，为艺术家、音乐家、电影制片人和作家创造数字内容，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增长感兴趣，特别是不可替代的代币（NFT），它将智能合约分配给数字艺术品，使艺术家能够更好地控制销售，合作伙伴，佣金，这一发现促使我们对自2021年6月以来在455画廊展出的60多位当地传统和数字艺术家进行了调查，发现没有一位艺术家产生了NFT，我们的项目将通过一个教育过程，为一群当地艺术家揭开NFT使用的神秘面纱，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带入区块链，并帮助他们在世界上最大的NFT市场Opensea上创建和铸造一系列NFT，为本地艺术家尝试NFT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.