Artists Make Technology

Artists Make Technology (AMT) is an initiative from the Doris Duke Foundation in partnership with Mozilla Foundation that centers performing artists in technological innovation.

AMT builds a comprehensive, cross-sector infrastructure that empowers performing artists not just to respond to technological change but to also be in the driver’s seat creating it.

By tackling systemic, long-standing barriers including limited direct funding, siloed sectors, economic and geographic barriers to access, weak policy pathways, and a lack of collaboration between art and tech, AMT creates an integrated, multi-tiered system of support that links artistic practice to tech-sector innovation.

The initiative includes three interconnected pillars: direct artist support through the Artists Make Technology Lab (formerly know as the Performing Arts Technologies Lab), infrastructure building through AMT Pathways, and continued knowledge building through AMT Assemblies. Together, these three intertwined pillars create a robust and replicable model for artist-led technological development to address the long-standing gap between artists and the design of the very technologies that reshape their livelihoods.

The Mozilla Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation and the Ford Foundation have committed $6.5M and continue seeking partnership toward the larger three year goal.