What they say

Celina Chin, executive director of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra

As most of the productions have been put online during the pandemic, we had to consult many professionals about what types of IP documents are required to safeguard artists’ copyright and settle them all before we released them online.

Heiman Ng, head of business development at Digital Art Fair

We’re glad to learn that the Hong Kong SAR government is catching up with the whole game. The government has for the very first time officially endorsed the idea of virtual assets, in addition to recognizing the potential of Web3 and virtual assets to become the future of financing commerce. And I don’t think it would be limited to finance and commerce industries. It will be very relevant to the creative industry as a whole as well.

Jeffrey Shaw, chair professor at the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University

The future cinema system which we are building is a large-scale, immersive, and visualization system where the experience of virtual reality will be sensational. It will be far more immersive, high resolution, engaging than what you can get from just headsets. And what’s more, it will be about other people sharing this experience and being able to communicate with each other. We’re taking the paradigm of the cinema as one of the great cultural experiences of our time and taking that to the next level.

Helen So, lead of arts and culture at Our Hong Kong Foundation

The government has put quite a lot of money into building hard infrastructure (like the West Kowloon Cultural District). But … you also need talents and capacity-building software. This is perhaps where we need to make that shift. … The government perhaps now should focus more on content, sort of driven policies and talent measures as well.