Hong Kong has huge potential to preserve traditional Chinese culture while innovating in cultural creative and arts industries, said Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law Shuk-pui.
Speaking at the first ArtCan Award Event organized by Sing Tao News Corporation, Law said the city’s unique history has made it an east-meets-west culture center attractive to both mainland and overseas tourists.
Law also said developing local arts and cultural creative industries would help draw high-value-added visitors to Hong Kong, and the government will jointly promote the sectors with relevant parties under the blueprint announced last November.
Headline Daily chief editor and ArtCan curator Lau Kwok-yip said the ArtCan could provide a platform for arts and cultural creative practitioners to communicate and showcase Hong Kong’s soft power in arts and culture to the world.
Chairman of the board of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Henry Tang Ying-yen said that Hong Kong still has room to improve in cultural creative and arts industries which account for 4.5 percent of the local GDP and six percent in local employment.
Tang hopes the city could play a more critical role in cultural and arts development in the country’s upcoming 15th five-year plan.
In a panel discussion on AI Art at the ArtCan Award Event, Gillian Howard -- founder of Digital Art Fair Asia -- said Hong Kong’s developed financial system and east-meets-west culture have set good fundamentals for rapid AI applications.
She described Hong Kong as a “must-go destination” for global artists and said many foreign artists are optimistic about the city’s prospects in AI art development.
Founder of the multi-chain generative art platform Genify, He Xiaoyang, said the value of AI art properties is increasing and that Hong Kong should seize the opportunity.
Meanwhile, local artist Cheng Ran hopes for more education and support from the government and various parties so that young art and cultural talents can deploy AI technology.
(Ayra Wang)
