Beyond the funding shortfall, it& #39;s mad how ill-equipped major Aus arts orgs are to deal with the present crisis. Few have a digital commissioning platform, or a devoted expert in digital arts programming, and they see digital as a branch of comms rather than a curatorial concern.

The dire thing is that precarity and underfunding limit debate & promote self-censorship, as people feel they have to show their allegiance and provide only positive commentary. But we have to critically engage with the arts and the models/structures we& #39;ve been using.

In this context, the rush to encourage all artists and galleries to just & #39;put the work up online& #39; makes no sense. What about sculptors? What about installation artists? They have a completely different skillset. Digital arts and digital programming is its own unique context.

Eg. the new HOMEFRONT fund by Arts ACT just allows for living expenses to support artists& #39; survival through the next 6-9 months and isn& #39;t outcome-driven – it just nurtures artists to do creative development on stuff at home. But that& #39;s the exception with the new funding streams.

So get set for a deluge of very mediocre, un-thought-through art presented digitally!