Posting this here as a reminder that you can build a successful software company and use that to fund a cutting-edge experimental art and performance space under the cover of "it's a research lab".
That's the beauty of this: QLab clearly do need a lab space... but they maybe don't need that space to be this beautifully designed and then have it run as a whole theater with artist collaborations like this.
I find the whole thing hugely inspiring. Chris is one of my new entrepreneurial heroes.
I'm a big fan of this genre of "a person got rich in tech and spent their wealth making an unrelated thing they wanted to exist in the world, untethered from the need to be profitable or self-sustaining."
See also, Jamie Zawinski's DNA Lounge[0] in San Francisco
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 30.7 ms ] threadThe Voxel doesn't even take a cut of ticket sales - it's completely free for the accepted artists to use: https://voxel.org/artist-residencies/
Tech specs here: https://voxel.org/technical-information/manual/
I find the whole thing hugely inspiring. Chris is one of my new entrepreneurial heroes.
See also, Jamie Zawinski's DNA Lounge[0] in San Francisco
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Lounge