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.
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.
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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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 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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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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