In this generous conversation, artist Tania Candiani shares her vision of enlivening contemporary science and technology with “big doses of beauty and poetry and magical connection”—pointing to ways she seeks to do so through her practice. Inci

Pia Lindman - Frequencies of Healing

Dec 17th, 2023 1h 2m

What if we could teach AIs to sing frequencies of repair and healing? This fascinating window into the world of artist Pia Lindman helps recalibrate understandings of what technology is and can be. She introduces a realm she calls the ‘subsenso

Saodat Ismailova - The Texture of the Weave

May 26th, 2023 59m 28s

In her stunning artistic and filmmaking work, Saodat Ismailova paints a vivid, multidimensional tableau of the pasts, presents and possible futures of Central Asia. Her intricate visual and sonic layerings of histories, myths, and both inner an

Chus Martínez - Skin of a New Cosmos

Mar 2nd, 2023 56m

In the 1970's and '80's, the Swiss artist Heidi Bucher summoned a future that we only now are beginning to grasp. Her latex skinning actions and sculptures promised emancipation from patriarchy and the social body politic, and at the same time

Camila Sposati - Listening with the Earth

Nov 18th, 2022 55m 46s

In this exciting conversation with Brazilian artist Camila Sposati, we map her dynamic practice of (slow-ly) digging into the ground and into the unknown to reveal and weave together layers of identity, bodies, artifacts – and also energy. Coul

Renske Maria van Dam - Working With/In the Gap

Apr 13th, 2022 58m 5s

How to imbue AIs with an enlivened sense of space? Architect and practice-based researcher Renske Maria van Dam challenges normative spatial paradigms with situated interventions that extend the sensorium and help our bodies access new realms o

Sands Murray-Wassink - The Relational Force of Being

Mar 25th, 2022 57m 37s

What if our technologies were spilling over with joy and abundance and messiness and fierce feminisms? The generous ideas shared here by artist Sands Murray-Wassink are light on AI but go heavy on how we (and our technologies) might be enriched

Maria Blaisse & Kate Moore - Flourishing with AI

Mar 4th, 2022 1h 3m

From the delicate unfolding of a tiny leaf to visions of blossoming skyscrapers, this inspired conversation with interdisciplinary artist Maria Blaisse and composer Kate Moore brings us all a step closer to a more harmonious future with AI. Thr

Jonas Staal & Radha D’Souza - Imaginaries of the Deep Present

Feb 18th, 2022 52m 47s

What if we approached AI from an interdependent, intergenerational perspective? With their joint project The Court of Intergenerational Climate Crimes, Jonas Staal and Radha D’Souza propose new artistic and legal imaginaries that both interroga

Oscar Santillán - Knowing and Not-Knowing

Feb 7th, 2022 58m 39s

From the poetics of matter to ‘machines of loving grace,’ this conversation with artist Oscar Santillán charts a course through subtly networked ecologies of knowledge—and the unknown—that he calls ‘Antimundo.’ He describes how his practice is

Ep 8: Murmurings with Sam Leach - Automatic Learning Augmenting the Creative Process

Dec 18th, 2020 19m 49s

Sam Leach joins the podcast to discuss his artistic work in his latest collection titled Fully Automatic, which featured at Sullivan & Strumpf in Sydney in 2020. Sam excels as an artist by his own merit, but what if we pair him up with some mac

Dakin Hart - AI in the Void

Dec 2nd, 2020 48m 2s

Can embracing the world in billion year chunks help us navigate the future of AI? In an inspired conversation with Dakin Hart, Senior Curator at the Noguchi Museum in New York, this episode focuses on the life and work of Japanese-American scul

Siobhán K Cronin - AI Beyond Binaries

Nov 13th, 2020 39m 47s

In this episode, dance artist and software engineer Siobhán K Cronin evokes spaces where the imaginations of artists and engineers can meet and collaborate. We discuss expanded practices of listening and ways to scale technological systems with

Monica Narula - Desire and Machine Presence

Oct 26th, 2020 40m 57s

This compelling and far-reaching conversation with Monica Narula of Raqs Media Collective explores themes of belonging, Not-Knowing, and machines as the materialization of desire. The discussion touches on Raqs projects old and new – including

Stephanie Rosenthal - Rituals of Care and Repair

Oct 1st, 2020 32m 17s

This conversation with Stephanie Rosenthal, director of Gropius Bau in Berlin, delves into the topic of Care in the institution’s recent programming. We hear about the diverse forms through which Care is expressed by artists, their intended hea

Rory Pilgrim & Carol R. Kallend - Affectionate AI

Sep 18th, 2020 43m 3s

An intimate and inspiring conversation with artist Rory Pilgrim and poet and disability advocate Carol R. Kallend. Together we explore their hopes for more conscious, creative, and caring relationships with robotic technologies. Leading into th

Enrique Rivera - AI and the World Around

Sep 4th, 2020 22m 36s

In this conversation with Enrique Rivera, director of the Santiago Media Arts Biennial in Chile, we explore the main curatorial themes of the 14th edition of the biennial ’The Fourth World.’ Enrique discusses them in conceptual, artistic and so

Jem Finer -Temporal Murmurings

Jun 18th, 2020 44m 17s

In this episode, artist and composer Jem Finer discusses his 1000-year-long music composition, Longplayer. He talks about his artistic process, ruminates on the value of the 'unknowable,’ and shares thoughts on what AI could learn from the artw

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