What creative possibilities will emerging technology unlock?
We nurture creative risk-taking at the intersection of technology and the performing arts, supporting projects that expand horizons for artists, institutions, audiences and communities.
Performing Arts Technologies Lab
For its pilot year, the Performing Arts Technologies Lab is incubating 20 artist-led experiments that use technology to create, present, distribute and preserve new works of performance.
Performing artists have long innovated with technologies, pushing the boundaries of artistic form and engagement. They are asking critical questions of the design, dissemination and application of these technologies, and of open-source accessibility and representation.”
Ashley Ferro-Murray, Ph.D.
Arts Program Director
Doris Duke Foundation
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Wehiwehi
At Shangri La, the Doris Duke Foundation’s center in Hawai‘i, Native Hawaiian contemporary artists are building community and piloting new ways of working at the crossroads of performance, technology and Indigeneity.
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Lars Jan: ROAM
A mixed-reality performance by the Los Angeles-based director Lars Jan asks perhaps the most fundamental question for life on earth: Can we evolve before we become extinct?
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A Reimagined Doris Duke Theatre
Rising from the ashes of the iconic former venue at Jacob’s Pillow, the new theater is equipped with state-of-the-art technology to meet the creative demands of artists for decades to come.
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