Arts Management and Technology Laboratory

In this interview episode, summer podcast lead Michael Butler speaks with composer Tyson Cazier about the field of adaptive music, rising technologies in the field, and Tyson's approach to storytelling in soundtrack composition. Cazier composes for video games and film and is a guitar professor at Utah State University.

In this month's Let's Talk episode, Angela Johnson and B Crittenden chat about how news of the Covid-19 vaccine is affecting attendance at arts institutions, as well as racial biases in AI implementation in museums. They also share their technology resolutions for 2021. Do you have any tech resolutions? Let us know in the comments!

In this interview episode, Podcast Producer Angela Johnson speaks with Toya Lillard, Executive Director of viBe Theater Experience. In November 2020, she gave a guest lecture for the College of Fine Arts and Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University on using an abolitionist framework within the arts and cultural sector.

In this month's Let's Talk episode, Angela Johnson and B Crittenden chat about antitrust in Big Tech with AMT Lab contributor Sam Houle. They also discuss safe ways to celebrate and connect over the upcoming holidays and recent trends in fundraising leading up to #GivingTuesday.

In this interview episode, our former Podcast Producer, Alyssa Wroblewski, along with our former Technology and Innovative Content Manager, Grace Puckett, sat down with Heather McElwee, the Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Glass Center. They discussed the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design of the website, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org.

In this interview episode, our summer podcast lead, Michael Butler, talks to AMT Lab contributor, Whitney Jefferson, about how venues and live music performances having been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Please note that the episode was recorded in August 2020.

In their first Let's Talk episode, Angela Johnson (Podcast Producer) and B Crittenden (Technology and Interactive Content Manager) chat about Zoom fatigue with AMT Lab contributor Morgan Kasprowicz, then continue the conversation about the pandemic's impact on the arts with a discussion about VR festivals and streaming.

In this episode, Alyssa and AMT-Lab Social Media & Marketing Manager, Mikayla Dimick, sit down with Jacqueline Lipton, Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, and Rick Lane, the CEO of Iggy Ventures, LLC. Together they discuss the pending sale of the .org domain name and the level at which this will affect nonprofits. Note: when this episode was recorded in March 2020, approval from ICANN for the sale was still pending. However, on April 30th, 2020, ICANN officially rejected the .org sale to Ethos Capital. Even though the .org domains are no longer for sale, a dialogue to rebuilt trust and protection of .org domains has taken place and could pick up again at any time.

In part two of this two-part interview episode, Alyssa Wroblewski continues her conversation with Elliott Mower and Rachael Wilkinson about their experiences moving from working in the nonprofit professional arts sector into the tech sector.

In part one of this two-part interview episode, Alyssa Wroblewski talks with Elliott Mower and Rachael Wilkinson about their experiences moving from working in the nonprofit professional arts sector into the tech sector. They reveal not only their own personal adjustments, but also what useful tactics arts managers could adopt from that industry. This episode delves into lessons learned with approaches in both industries with collaboration processes (waterfall vs. Agile) and collaboration tools.