Arts, Technology, and Business Stories to Watch by Fractured Atlas
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OPINION: Emerging artists are hyper-professionalized.
The entire system seems designed, predominantly, to disappoint. What has arisen from these failures is a marked distinction between product- and project-based artists.
Why keeping salaries a secret may hurt your company.
Research suggests that pay secrecy may actually reduce employee performance, while transparency improves both output and effort — and the studies show that top performers are particularly affected.
Museums should be more inclusive, maximize happiness, [and] become creative co-working spacein order to meet future needs.
The five trends it spotlights deal with ever-expanding perceptions of self-definition and representation; museums, Merritt urges, should shape and augment the experiences of visitors and its staff to better cater to these new notions of identity.
Art galleries face pressure to fund museum shows.
The increasingly common arrangement has stoked concerns about conflicts of interest and the dilution of a museum’s mission to present art for art’s sake. Such cozy situations raise the specter of a pay-to-play model and could give galleries undue influence over what the public sees.
These gloves turn your hands into VR game controllers.
Hardware maker Manus wants to get you even closer to the action. The Dutch firm is developing gloves that […] let you use your hands more naturally in VR experiences.
FCC wants to offer low-income households a $9 monthly broadband subsidy.
In addition to getting more people to sign up for internet access, the FCC hopes that its plan will also urge service providers like Comcast and AT&T to bring connectivity to low-income areas where they previously may not have made profits.
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