AI,  Robotics, VR, Bio-plastics: LINCOLN CENTER’S Shanta Thake on the Power of Performing Arts in the Age of AI - Highlights

"I really do believe that the arts are critical to how we move forward together, and live performance in particular, I think, is a way of us practicing how to move across our ideological boundaries and find one another and imagine these new worlds together and create together."Shanta Thake is the Chief Artistic Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts—the nation's largest performing arts complex. Before stepping into this role, she spent nineteen years at The Public Theater, shaping the city's cultural landscape through Joe's Pub and expansive community initiatives. Today, she is tearing down walls—both the literal barriers separating Lincoln Center from its neighbors, and the figurative ones that dictate who belongs in our cultural spaces. She views the arts not as a luxury, but as essential civic infrastructure. We are pleased to have Shanta Thake to discuss her journey, the power of radical curation, and the future of public performance.(00:01) Art as the Oldest Technology(07:50) The Gift of Pause(09:55) Reimagining Lincoln Center(12:19) A Collective Caretaking(12:56) The Curiosity of Childhood(18:02) San Juan Hill and The Wall(20:39) globalFEST: Music and ConnectionEpisode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast