{"id":691176,"date":"2025-09-21T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lincoln-centers-collider-fellows-explore-how-tech-could-transform-the-performing-arts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:00:47","slug":"lincoln-centers-collider-fellows-explore-how-tech-could-transform-the-performing-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lincoln-centers-collider-fellows-explore-how-tech-could-transform-the-performing-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Center\u2019s Collider Fellows explore how tech could transform the performing arts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a time of high anxiety around technology<\/a>\u2019s impact on arts and culture, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts\u2019 Collider Fellowship<\/a> is focused on new opportunities, welcoming multi-disciplinary artists to explore how emerging tech can transform live performance and the performing arts.<\/p>\n

Today, the famed New York performing arts center is announcing its second class of Collider Fellows \u2014 a group of six artists working in areas from virtual reality to artificial intelligence to the immersive 4DSound System.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love that they\u2019re 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,\u201d said Lincoln Center\u2019s vice president of programming Jordana Leigh.<\/p>\n

Leigh added that she\u2019s an \u201ceternal optimist\u201d about how tech can benefit the arts. When asked about broader worries around AI, she countered that she\u2019s excited about artists who can use AI as \u201canother tool in their toolkit, like a mixer for sound or a paintbrush for paint.\u201d She also suggested that for some artists, \u201ctechnology is catching up to their vision, versus their vision catching up to this technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

To illustrate some of this potential, Leigh pointed to a recent Lincoln Center arts and tech commission, Dream Machine<\/a> by Nona Hendryx. By using a combination of AI, VR, and augmented reality to immerse visitors, especially BIPOC visitors, in Afrofuturist environments, Leigh said Dream Machine shows how art can help \u201cpeople who do not see themselves in technology to start seeing themselves in it \u2014 particularly Black and Brown people, especially Black and Brown women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the more people who are part of the conversation, the more chance we have for it to be a good conversation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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The new Collider Fellows, selected through a nomination-based process, will continue exploring that potential. For the next nine months, they\u2019ll be provided with studio space at Lincoln Center and Onassis ONX<\/a>, along with a financial stipend and support from Lincoln Center staff.<\/p>\n

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The Collider Fellowship, Leigh added, is part of a broader umbrella of programs through which the performing arts center seeks to support artists in \u201cnon-transactional\u201d ways.<\/p>\n

Notably, the fellowship does not require participating artists to complete a final project or commission. Leigh said that the first class of Collider Fellows included one artist who completed \u201cfive or six prototypes\u201d during the program, while another wanted to \u201ctake this time to rejuvenate, read tons of books, do tons of research, slow down\u201d \u2014 she said both app<\/a>roaches are \u201ccompletely acceptable ways to use this fellowship.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Leigh, many of the projects that emerged from that first class are \u201cstill germinating,\u201d and some could potentially be shown at Lincoln Center itself. And while Leigh described herself as \u201cdoubling down on location-based experiences,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re closing the door to anything right now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Here are the six new Collider Fellows, with brief descriptions of their work:<\/p>\n