"After so many years working with artists in this field, here’s what is most resonant: Artists need space and time. They need technically competent staff to collaborate with to present their work. They need an education that sets them up for success. This includes not only the skills they learn, but the frameworks for establishing themselves as professionals who can make a reliable and pleasurable living.
It is also worth adding that many artists working in technology are not solo practitioners in the way that many studio artists are. Their work is more akin that of a theater or dance company, or a commercial design studio, and the lack of appropriate education and funding is therefore keenly felt. They have project and staff management responsibilities, staffing costs, equipment needs, software fees, production expenses, and a necessary period of staging. They are not trained to collaborate or to contract as a theater director or choreographer might be, and the resources they are allocated are more along the lines of a single studio artist. NEW INC, which I direct, exists to support artists by setting them up with the network and skills they need to realize their work in a more impactful way."
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