Some weird assumptions that some artists and programmers seem to be making at the moment:

- That you don't have to pay performers for a livestreamed gig like you would for any other
- That you don't have to put as much effort into curating & promoting your livestreamed gig

- That livestreamed gigs are automatically more accessible, and don't require the same attention to detail to make things accessible to disabled artists and audiences
- That you're doing people a favour by asking them to provide online activity you'd normally pay them for

- That just whacking things online is the same thing as audience development

- That online isn't a type of performance venue with its own possibilities and restrictions, to which you have to adapt your practice, just as you do for different sizes of stage

- That everyone suddenly has more time on their hands and your main job is to fill it, as if some people aren't working harder than ever before

- That is better to ask successful artists who have never worked online before to propose brand new projects than to approach artists who have been developing online expertise for years

- That disabled artists don't have something to teach you right now, and that when they teach you you don't have to pay them

What else have you noticed?

Doing art online should be an opportunity to explore the artistic possibilities of the internet, to widen access, to rethink audience, to support different artists, to work with disabled artists & others who've always worked under restricted conditions, to be humble, to learn.