Shi Xingguo Talks to Gu Zhenqing: What Will be The “Weapons” That NFT Art Has to Withstand The Crypto Winter?

Gu Zhenqing is a critic who served as the Chief Curator of the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art from 2003 to 2006, the Art Director of the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) in 2004, the Executive Director of the Shanghai Zhu Qizhan Art Museum from 2006 to 2008, and the Editor-in-Chief of “Visual Production” magazine. He was a visiting associate professor of the Sculpture Department at Taiwan National University of Arts from 2018 to 2020 and has been a visiting professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts since 2021.

Shi Xingguo and Gu Zhenqing engage in an in-depth conversation analyzing the market prospects of crypto art, the operational mechanisms of the crypto community, the logic and concept of IP development, and the path forward for digital collections. They explore the “weapons” that NFT art has to withstand the crypto winter.

Highlights of today’s talk:

  1. Why and how can the metaverse rewrite and change the history of human art?
  2. What unique value does crypto art have compared to traditional art?
  3. What specific role does the development of the basic blockchain technology play in the integration of metaverse and art?
  4. What “weapons” does NFT art have to withstand the crypto winter?
  5. What will be the future trends of the NFT art market?
  6. What successful experiences can be learned from the “Bored Ape” IP?
  7. How do we view the phenomenon of Chinese IP culture going abroad and releasing NFTs overseas?
  8. What issues should Chinese IP culture pay special attention to when going abroad?

Video link:

https://mbd.baidu.com/newspage/data/videolanding?nid=sv_6648237528134592112