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Arts & Culture

Technologies and the Performing Arts

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.

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New Survey Finds Performing Artists See Promise in Tech — But Lack Access and Safeguards

Doris Duke Foundation released new survey findings showing that while performing artists see strong promise in technology, many lack the access, skills and safeguards needed to fully use it.

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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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Survey

Technology in the Performing Arts: Opportunities & Risks

This survey, conducted by Meridian Research & Insights, is based on responses from more than 300 artists across dance, music and theater. It shows that while performing artists see strong promise in technology, many lack the access, skills and safeguards needed to fully use it.

Ensuring Performing Artists are at the Center of Technology Innovation

Structured around three core pillars, Artists Make Technology aims to create pathways to center performing artists in technological innovation by providing support, resources and collaboration opportunities.

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Beyond “Art + Technology”

In a guest essay, performer, writer and interactive-electronics artist Andrew Schneider argues for focusing on outcomes over tools and for a future where “art + technology” doesn’t need the “+”.

What Is Creative Production?

This explainer from SOZO looks at what creative producing can involve, from shaping a project’s vision and process to holding the connective tissue across collaborators.

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.