Artists, audiences & wellbeing: An economic analysis

Connecting performance artists with digital audiences: A case study of Scratch Online

The Battersea Arts Centre (London, UK) has been a pioneer in developing new models of theatre, including creating and supporting the Scratch programme for the last 12 years. At its core, Scratch is about giving artists-in-residence the opportunity to present work-in-progress, and to actively seek feedback from a live audience. Portions of new works are trialled in short pieces often lasting jus...

The Audiences Would Be the Artists and their Life Would Be the Arts

across the Internet is entirely abstract and intangible. But in 1995, artist Natalie Jeremijenko quite literally tapped into the bit stream coursing through the local network at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), transforming the flow of data into a physically perceptible phenomenon. Her installation, titled Dangling String, consists of a long plastic fiber that is attached to an electric ...

An Economic Analysis of Intraclass Marriage

Cheap talk with multiple audiences: An experimental analysis

We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one sender and multiple receivers. We study the change in equilibrium behavior from the addition of another audience as well as from varying the degree of conflict between the sender’s and receivers’ preferences. We find that, as in cheap talk games with just one receiver, information t...

Age, Creativity, and Wellbeing: Benefits of Creative Behavior Among Younger and Older Artists and Nonartists