Lincoln Center partners of Lincoln Center investigate how technology could transform performance arts

In a time of high anxiety about the impact of technology on arts and culture, Lincoln Center for Collider Performing Arts Scholarship It focuses on new opportunities, welcoming multi -scientific artists to explore how emerging technology can turn live performance and arts.

Today, the renowned New York Arts Center announces the second category of Collider colleagues – a group of six artists working in areas from virtual reality in artificial intelligence in the 4DSOUND flagship system.

“I love that they are all really careful people who don’t just think [the work] He himself, but how it fits into a bigger discussion in the arts and technology, “said Jordana Leigh’s programming vice president of Lincoln Center.

Leigh added that he is an “eternal optimistic” about how technology can benefit the arts. When asked about broader concerns about AI, he resisted that he was excited about artists who can use AI as “another tool in their tool, as a mixer for sound or paint brush”. He also suggested that for some artists, “technology attracts their vision in relation to their vision to attract this technology.”

To visualize some of these possibilities, Leigh pointed out a recent Lincoln Center Arts and Techniques Committee, Dream machine by Nona Hendryx. Using a combination of AI, VR and augmented reality to sink visitors, especially Bipoc visitors, in afrofuturist environments, Leigh said the Dream machine shows how art can help “people who do not see themselves in technology starting to see themselves – especially black and black”.

“I think the more people are part of the discussion, the more likely we are to be a good conversation,” he added.

The new candidates, selected through a candidate -based process, will continue to investigate this potential. For the next nine months, they will receive studio space at Lincoln Center and Onassis onxAlong with a financial subsidy and support from Lincoln Center staff.

The Collider scholarship, Leigh added, is part of a wider umbrella of programs through which the Art Center seeks to support artists in “non -concerted” ways.

Specifically, the scholarship does not require participating artists to complete a final work or commission. Leigh said that the first class of Collider’s colleagues included an artist who completed “five or six original” during the program, while another wanted to “get this time to rejuvenate, read the tones of books, to make the tones of research,”

According to Leigh, many of the projects that emerged from this first class “still hurt”, and some could possibly appear in the center of Lincoln itself. And while Leigh described herself as “duplicated in location -based experiences”, especially those including VR, AR and extensive reality, she also suggested that Lincoln’s fellowships will review the ways in which the public can reach worldwide.

“I don’t think we close the door to anything now,” he said.

Here are the six new candidates, with brief descriptions of their work:

• Cinthia chenA multi -scientific artist and technologist whose work (depicted above) combines performance, installation and projection design to explore memory, hybrid identities and spiritual futurism.
• Sam RafaA virtual artist, artist and co-director of the Rolfes Virtual Performance Group, whose work includes performances, fashion design and printing and musical visuals for Lady Gaga, Arca, Metallica and Netflix
• James Allister fledThe first US -based artist to work with 4D Sound System, creating exciting, sensory experiences that explore the scattering schedules and black interior
• Stephanie DinkinsAn interdisciplinary artist and teacher focused on emerging technologies, race and future stories, which recently named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine at AI
• Kevin Petrosbased on his background in cinema, dance and urban transformation to work in cinematic films, performance and gaming machines, exploring how structures and technologies shape the narrative and incarnation
• Dr. Rashaad NewsomeA Whitney Biennial Alum, whose work combines collage, performance, AI and robotics to explore black and strange cultural expression