Yes, cross disciplinary is everywhere and we are seeing a shift from the individual artist to the collaborative team as the producers of creative culture. There is also a greater recognition that this is not just collaboration between artists, but also across, what are looking more like, entrepreneurial teams; where creators, business, tech, marketing, accounting, science and academia (too name a few) are coming together in transdisciplinary teams. This means that not only are creative works being made, but also businesses created, IP commercialised and essential research from a creative cultural base being undertaken. My favorite model is AncillaryIPs (which you can conveniently find here in Filter https://filter.anat.org.au/opinion/artistic-practi…), this model works best in this new team environment. But also software models have been tried and tested in the digital environment as well as open source and crowdsourcing.

There are some changes needed though, business needs to be educated that creative culture is a great place to look for commercialisation opportunities and there needs to more sophisticated, entrepreneurial, business training for creative practitioners.

We also need to question what is an artistic career in an era where work is getting difficult to show and nearly impossible to sell in a traditional artworld context. Would an artist be happy to have a creative career in a robotics research lab? Would you have more artistic impact from such a career? It is starting to happen, but most people have a preconceived idea of what it is to be an artist is in society.

Change is happening, this doesn't make it easy to find a path, but gives us an opportunity to create the paths.

Thanks for the great comment!!

Gavin