Emerging Technology for the Performing Arts
A Grand Challenges ad hoc funded project.

3 October 2018
UCL Grand Challenges funded a workshop which took place at the Bloomsbury theartre and was focused on exploring how future trends in engineering and technology could support new artistic expression and opportunities in the performing arts. The workshop brought together academics, members of the creative and cultural industries, and artists from across Europe and the UK. Partners included organisations like Sadler's Wells, National Theatre, English National Ballet, and the Madison Square Garden group.
The discussion at the workshop centered around what new things performing arts organisations would like to be able to do that they can't currently, and how emerging technologies like AI could potentially support and enable new artistic expression and opportunities. The goal was that this workshop would lead to future collaborative work between the academic and arts/cultural partners to explore the application of new technologies in the performing arts.