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Lincoln Center’s Collider Fellows explore how tech could transform the performing arts
At a time of high anxiety around technology’s impact on arts and culture, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Collider Fellowship is a program that welcomes multi-disciplinary artists to explore the opportunities that new tech presents for live performance and the performing arts.
Today, the famed New York performing arts center is announcing its second class of Collider Fellows — a group of six artists working in areas from virtual reality to artificial intelligence to the immersive 4DSound System. “I love that they’re all really thoughtful people who are not just thinking about [the work] itself, but how it fits into a larger conversation in arts and technology,” said Lincoln Center’s vice president of programming Jordana Leigh. And while Leigh described herself as “doubling down on location-based experiences,” particularly those that involve VR, AR, and extended reality, she also suggested that the Collider Fellows could help Lincoln Center rethink the ways it can reach audiences globally.
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