Ludus: a Ticket Selling Platform Changing the Game
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Release Date: 11/21/2025
World building in a spatial era: an Interview with Erin Reilly
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A Future View of Virtual and Surround Experience: An Interview with Arthur Earnest
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Storytelling and Immersive Media: An Interview With Eric Williams
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Play, Design, and Everything In-Between
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Analog art in a digital world: An interview with Sean Hallowell
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Beyond Learning Outcomes: Marti Louw talks about Designing for the Human Experience
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How Can Creatives Manage a World with AI
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Crystal Manich: Artistry, Opera, and Grandiosity
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From Dystopia to Utopia, an interview with Sarah Turner, New Media artist
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Free Press, Bad Press, and the Muscogee Nation: A Conversation with Filmmakers
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In this episode of the Arts Management and Technology Lab, host Luna Lu speaks with co-directors Rebecca Lansberry-Baker and Joe Peeler, alongside journalist and film subject Angel Ellis, about the making of their Sundance 2023 award-winning documentary. The conversation explores how the team came together, the ethical and creative challenges of documenting press censorship within the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and the tension between tribal sovereignty and press freedom. Through Angel Ellis’s experience as a journalist turned whistleblower, the episode highlights the vital role of...
info_outlineIn this episode of the Arts Management and Technology Lab, Andrew Wolverton and Zachary Collins explore how arts-focused technology can transform nonprofit ticketing and operations, tracing Ludus’s journey from a side project for a single high school musical to a nationwide platform serving more than 4,000 organizations. Collins explains how Ludus was built from the ground up around the real needs of drama teachers and community theaters, growing into an end-to-end system for ticketing, fundraising, marketing, volunteers, and concessions—while staying anchored in a people-first culture summed up by the company’s core value, “Give a Shit.” He reflects on navigating the COVID-19 shutdown through livestreaming and social-distancing tools, choosing the right growth equity partner, and why he believes AI shouldn’t replace arts workers but instead act as a “superpower” that frees them to focus on human-centered work and shared live experiences.
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