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.
Mozilla Foundation and Doris Duke Foundation Reveal the First Cohort of the Artists Make Technology Initiative
The first grantees of the $11 million initiative will build new technologies across AI, robotics, haptics, spatial audio and more.
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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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.
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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 “+”.
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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.
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Wehiwehi
At Shangri La, the Doris Duke Foundation’s global 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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