Public Lecture
| Date 日期: | 02 Mar 2022 | |
| Time 時間: | 6:45pm - 8:15pm | |
| Venue 地點: | Conducted via Online Platform | |
| Medium 語言: | English | |
| Speaker(s) 講師: | Mr. Heiman Ng (伍常) Mr. Hanjin Tan (陳奐仁) Mr. Brian Tang (陳華利) |
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| Summary 內容: | Could you imagine that a jpg file would sell for US$69 million? The creator of the most expensive NFT (“Non Fungible Token”) Art to date is now one of the top-five highest earning, living artists. Other examples include the online platform “9GAG,” which sold an NFT meme artwork for more than US$34,000 last year. Why is it valuable? What’s the hype behind the NFT? And what’s the difference between owning an NFT and a screen capture? The booming topic of NFTs shaken up both the art-world and the world of investment. It serves to certify the uniqueness, ownership, and authenticity of a digital asset, enabling a real market for both creators and buyers to trade digital works with more credibility and security. Some say the emergence of the NFT could prevent copyright infringement and provide artists with more opportunities to facilitate the popularization of art and reach out to public; some hesitate and say that NFTs are just “a flash in the pan” and cannot be sustained in the long-run. Is the NFT a new way for artists to achieve greater long-term income stability? In this talk, speakers from different fields including seasoned art specialist Heiman Ng, singer-songwriter Hanjin Tan, and Executive Director of LITE Lab@HKU, Brian Tang will join together to discuss how marketable and sustainable is NFT Art. |
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| Bio of Speaker(s) 講者簡介: |  Heiman Ng (伍常) is a senior art advisor with more than 10 years of experience in art consulting, curating and training in Greater China. Prior to joining Digital Art Fair (the first international art fair with a focus on digital and NFT art in Asia) as the Director and Head of Business Development, he was the Course Leader of Christie’s Education, Asia and Head of Press of Bonhams. He is currently teaching as a part-time Lecturer in The University of Hong Kong (Programme: Global Creative Industries) and HKU SPACE (Programme: Executive Workshop “Innovation in ArtTech and NFT”) respectively. He is also part of the Academic Advisory Board of Sociology Department of Hong Kong Shue Yan University.  Hanjin Tan (陳奐仁) has starred in hit TV sitcoms, and played a supporting role in “Bruce Lee, my brother” which earned him a Hong Kong Film Award in 2011. Above all, he is an award-winning singer song-writer album producer. He is also the first in the world to drop a Chinese music NFT. Hanjin Web 3.0 Accelerator Program is endorsed by the Hongkong Cyberport.  Brian Tang (陳華利) is founding executive director of the award-winning interdisciplinary and experiential Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Lab (LITE Lab) at University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law.Brian is managing director of ACMI, board member and founding co-chair of the Regtech Committee of Fintech Association of Hong Kong and co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA). Brian has been invited to speak and consult with financial institutions, fintechs and regulators and is a principal instructor for the world’s largest fintech online course on edX with more than 100,000 learners worldwide. Brian also co-authored Wiley’s The FinTech Book, The RegTech Book , The AI Book and The LegalTech Book. Brian was previously at global investment bank Credit Suisse in Hong Kong and Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Silicon Valley. |
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