How to protect traditional arts in the age of artificial intelligence?
Handicraft expert said: If we have a clear and written program in the era of artificial intelligence and metaverse, with a little flexibility and passing rigid and closed ideas, we can protect and develop our traditional crafts and arts.
Artificial Intelligence is slowly strengthening its foothold in the field of culture and art. In the last year, leading artists have created amazing works and experiences from music, film and cinema, photos and paintings to the audience by using artificial intelligence. they presented; While the field of handicrafts is still dealing with its old challenges from the supply of raw materials to insurance and the sales market, a new wave of technology development from artificial intelligence and metaverse has reached the edges of the border of traditional arts and crafts, and for the activists of this field, it may be a concern and Concern has become.
It seems that what should not be the concern of the guardians of the field of handicrafts is the evaluation of the index of “resistance” or “fragility” of traditional Iranian knowledge and art and skills, because the handicraft artist has demonstrated his intelligence for many centuries in every historical period with every development progress. He showed off his modern technologies, took it into his own hands and presented his product to the society as a luxurious or practical work. Today, everything we have in history is the art of adapting the artist to the development of his time. The present time is also a season of this encounter of art with new technologies.
The necessity of flexibility to face the intelligent world
Hossein Khajeh Bidakhti said about the confrontation of traditional arts with the emerging phenomena of development: In the path of development, there is a possibility of damage to traditions and traditional professions, especially handicrafts, so we must take advantage of the experience of the most developed countries in the world to preserve our reserves, knowledge and traditional skills and handicrafts. Have a clear and documented plan to reduce its negative impact.
Handicrafts expert pointed out: In the last few decades, Japan was able to provide a local model to preserve traditions, especially handicrafts, to deal with the negative effects of the wave of development. Metaverse, with a little flexibility and passing rigid and closed thoughts, we can protect and develop our traditional arts and crafts.
The role of governments is facilitation, not management
By saying that in most countries, the government’s role in the field of handicrafts is a facilitator rather than an intervention and undertaking, Biddekhti clarified: the direct intervention of the government in the field of handicrafts is not the right approach, at least in this era, in a country like India where handicrafts play a more prominent role in their economy. Non-governmental organizations are more productive than governments.
The existence of non-governmental organizations can solve a large part of the problems of handicraft producers in interaction with these large industrial factories. Kandavi pointed to the government’s incentive policies in various economic fields and said: policies such as tax exemptions, helping to provide cheap and high-quality raw materials, Shipping and delivery to the customer (such as the favorable promise made by the CEO of Iran’s National Post Company recently) are valuable incentives that have a positive effect on the development and prosperity of the handicrafts market.
Handicraft expert pointed out the problems of supplying raw materials for the production of handicrafts in the country and said: Big companies producing and supplying raw materials in various fields such as copper and steel, ceramics, textiles, wood and glass can consider the initial quota for handicraft workshops.
He added: Of course, responding to the limited needs will be minimal and hard work at first, for this reason, the existence of non-governmental organizations can solve a large part of the problems of handicraft producers in interaction with these large industries.
Iran’s handicrafts suffer from the lack of companies with common interests
Biddekhti said: The first and most important challenge for Iran’s handicrafts is the sales and export market. Solving the market problem will definitely improve the status of Iran’s handicrafts. Sales and earning are the most important motivations for handicraft producers, although the presence of foreign tourists and the boom in domestic tourism are an effective help in This is the field and will act as the driving engine of handicrafts.
The prosperity of handicraft workshops will solve the problems of artisans and artists, including insurance, and there will be no need for this supportive view of the government. He called the non-compliance of some products with the customer’s taste as a challenge of the handicraft industry and added: the lack of attention to the customer’s taste causes stagnation and Sleep becomes capital and the result is the discouragement of handicrafts activists, but what Iran’s handicrafts suffer from is the absence of companies with common interests (holdings) that organize and manage the set of activities related to this field.
The handicrafts expert added: In handicrafts holdings, the obstacles faced by the producers from the supply of raw materials, packaging, to monitoring the quality of production to provide a high-quality product are removed.
Biddekhti added: Although insurance is the most important priority and concern of the government and the demand for handicraft activists, I believe it is not the most important challenge, because the boom in the production of handicraft workshops will solve the problems of artisans and artists, including insurance, and the government will no longer support this view. It will not be needed.