Presentation of the Exhibition
We are in preparation for the world's first and largest offline Crypto Art Group Exhibition "Virtual Niche" in two prominent Art Institutions: UCCA Labs Beijing and Shanghai JinArt Gallery, from 26th March - 11th April 2021.
The 14 days dual city exhibition is designed to feature Kusama Network and aims to create awareness of its cryptoart capability among the targeted artists group, with the goal of onboarding them to Kusama Network for cryptoart adoption through workshops and a Kusama Network Theme Crypto Art creation competition. Furthermore these events will introduce the art world to the development of Blockchain culture from Bitcoin and Ethereum to Polkadot/Kusama artwork via storytelling curation and workshops.
Given the high profile of these events, we propose they be used as a Grand Opening for the Kusama Network art gallery. Each of the participants will receive a special crypto ticket on Kusama Network as a part of a tech immersive creation experience. From the current pipeline we are looking to showcase:
In Shanghai, a one-day offline cryptoart summit will be hosted prior to the Shanghai exhibition opening to gather the key participants of Tech+Art , Gaming, e-Sport, Streetwear and Blockchain. Kusama Network will be the highlight.
The Problems We Try to Solve:
Opportunities:
The Proposal: "Virtual Niche" Exhibition
The project is divided into 4 milestones. The ultimate vision is to brand all cryptoart in the Chinese community first as a genre of contemporary art, opening the door to interested market collectors.
A List of confirmed renowned artists to join the group exhibition and workshop with Kusama Network
Milestone 1: Kusama Theme Crypto Art Creation Competition
To Build up the Kusama artist community for organic cryptoart on-boarding. We will host the Kusama Theme Crypto Art Creation Competition two months before the exhibition aiming at 300+ artist participation. And the final 6 Kusama art winners will be incentivized to join by the once in a lifetime chance to exhibit their work in China’s No.1 Museum UCCA and will receive an award in tokens.
Allocation cost: Apply for 8,300 USD in total
Item 1: Publicity cost: 4,000 USD
Artron（The most Chinese authoritative Art media; page view/day 500,000) The 1,300 USD package includes a month of full online campaign from press release , contestant application to award announcement.
Odaily (The most popular crypto and crypto art friendly media in China; page view/day 200,000) The 1,300 USD package includes a month of full online campaign from press release, contestant application to award announcement.
Poster design, print copies (1000 copies)distributed among Student Union of 6 universities during campus promotion in Beijing for recruitment (4 people involve for a week): 1,400 USD
Item 2: Labour Cost at 1500 USD
Item 3: Bonus Prize for winners in total: 2800 USD
Timeline
2021.1.06 - 2021.2.28 Target promotion will launch online on Arton and offline in 15+ universities eg. : Tsinghua University & Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts etc. for contestants recruitment. The applicants can submit creation through BCAEX website to join First Round.
2021.3.01 - 2021.3.07 First Round 30 (from initial 100) artworks will be selected by the judges panel which comprises of Tech + Art leader with comments (confirmed) : Liu Gang, Qiu Zhijie, Cui Cancan, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Dai Zhuoqun, Chen Zhuo, You Yang,
2021.3.08 - 2021.3.11 Top 100 Artists require to submit their improvement plan based on the judges comments as the reference for the final round.
2021.3.12 - 2021.3.15 Final round - 6 pieces will be selected as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place awards (one for each) and three nominee awards.
2020.3.15 - 2021.3.16 Award announcement.
Milestone 2: Official announcement of "Virtual Niche": exhibition in partnership with Kusama Network (Kusama logo on the co-host line) in 40 media covering both Crypto and Art World with an estimation of 100k page view.
Official announcement of "Virtual Niche": exhibition in partnership with Kusama Network (Kusama logo on the co-host line) in 40 media covering both Crypto and Art World with an estimation of 100k page view.
Allocation Cost: Apply for 9,200 USD in total
Timeline
Milestone 3: Grand Opening for the Kusama art gallery in Beijing (an important part of exhibition
The Opening of the exhibition in Beijing will also act as the Grand Opening for the Kusama art gallery. 4 Technical Kusama cryptoart workshops (1 hour each) will be held during the exhibition weekend days (2 days) to train 200 artists /coders in Beijing for Kusama cryptoart on-boarding.
Allocation Cost: 16,000 USD
Timeline
Beijing exhibition Opening
A Kusama Gallery technical intro session (20mins)
Beijing Exhibition at UCCA Labs,26.03.2021 to 4.04.2021.
Kusama Art Gallery Launch.
4 Kusama cryptoart Workshops. Each workshop hosted by BCAEX x KUSAMA will last 1 hour, and will receive around 50-100 attendees.
Parity Asia team, is confirmed to support the Kusama cryptoart/substrate Workshop if the proposal approved, and after approval will co-develop the workshop content with NFT strategy group*
2 Non Technical Workshops: exhibition guided tour and the development of Blockchain culture from Bitcoin, Etherum, to Polkadot/Kusama.
Milestone 4: Grand Opening for the Kusama art gallery in Shanghai
On The Opening day of the exhibition in Shanghai, we will host a 200-people cryptoart forum joined by art, culture, blockchain world stakeholder which Kusama Network will be introduced as cryptoart solution and also as offline forum co-host with 2 sessions for technical introduction.
2 Technical Kusama cryptoart workshops (1 hour each) will be given during the Shanghai exhibition weekend days (2 days) to train 100 artists /coders in Shanghai for Kusama cryptoart on-boarding.
Allocation: 16,500 USD
Will add an after movie video and live photo to display the Kusama art part, exihibition and workshop participation (the cost will be around 1000usd- this part will apply via tipping function later) Beijing video can deliver around 9th of April
Timeline
Team And Roles
Producer and initiator:
Curators(one of them):
Budget and Request For Funds:
We request 20% of the total Budget as fund support around USD 50,000
Total budget of the events, exhibitions and cryptoart forum
Payment condition:
We apply for 833 KSM in total as usd 50,000 ( each ksm as 60usd, 1 month average price)
4 milestones being developed in parallel to reach the date of events because each of those are closely connected (Art competition generates Kusama art to be exhibited in the show) and exhibition requires 3-4 months to prepare and book the venue, do the curation and write cataloge. Once proposal approved, will start all 4 milestones in parallel
About BCA:
Established in 2018, Block Create Art (BCA) is China’s first cryptoart brand dedicated to the research/creation, scholarship and promotion of cryptoart. BCA with its innovation workshop BCA Studio, premier rare digital art marketplace BCAEX, international standard art space BCA Gallery, and cryptoart terminal hardware BCA Display, creates a multifaceted and vibrant environment for people to enjoy and benefit from the cutting edge contemporary art, as well as injects artistic and cultural power into the whole blockchain ecosystem. Now we have a team of 14 people, all of whom are from first-line companies in the blockchain, art, and financial fields.
BCAEX (Asia’s first CryptoArt marketplace): https://www.bcaex.co/#/home
BCA Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blockart6
Fund Manager: BCA
The "Virtual Niche" exhibition is a big art show happening in two places: UCCA Labs in Beijing and JinArt Gallery in Shanghai. It's all about Crypto Art and will happen from March 26th to April 11th, 2021. The goal is to teach artists about Crypto Art and get them to use Kusama Network for their art. There will be workshops, a competition, and a chance for artists to show their work. Some famous artists like Ben Gentill and Mario Klingeman will join. The event will cost a lot of money, so they are asking for help to make it happen. BCA, a company that loves Crypto Art, is planning this event.