Facebook vs Face to Face: Analogue bodies in a digital world

From robots and long-distance rehearsals, to new models of collaboration and company structures, technology will change all our lives.
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Artists of the future must find new ways to use technology for social connection and relationship building, said Sydney Festival Director Wesley Enoch in a keynote address at the National Dance Forum last Monday.

‘I argue the future is one in which we get to decide how we use technology to enhance our lives rather than control us. The utopian future is one in which we can plug in and out of the matrix at will; write code for new software for three hours a day and then tend a garden, knit a new scarf and bake a cake for a friend’s birthday,’ he said.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts