At a time of high anxiety around technology's impact on arts and culture, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' Collider Fellowship is focused on new opportunities, welcoming multi-disciplinary artists to explore how emerging tech can transform live performance and the performing arts. Today, the famed New York performing arts center is announcing its second class of Collider Fellows ' a group of six artists working in areas from virtual reality to artificial intelligence to the immersive 4DSound System. 'I love that they're all really thoughtful people who are not just thinking about [the work] itself, but how it fits into a larger conversation in arts and technology,' said Lincoln Center's vice president of programming Jordana Leigh. Leigh added that she's an 'eternal optimist' about how tech can benefit the arts. When asked about broader worries around AI, she countered that she's excited about artists who can use AI as 'another tool in their toolkit, like a mixer for sound or a paintbrush for paint.' She also suggested that for some artists, 'technology is catching up to their vision, versus their vision catching up to this technology.'...