Scissor Labels Essay: https://j.mirror.xyz/RUeJfZEZxr-hkuzUCakQyUuf2kOJVMPPiAWBaQFhhqc How it was funded via $ESSAY: https://j.mirror.xyz/uVGCCwwm3k341lPpxaJmHTZROESVse9Pe_rmbiuUAC0 John Palmer: https://johnpalmer.site/ #/ Kara Kittel: https://twitter.com/karakittel?lang=en Toby Shorin: https://tobyshorin.com/ Other Internet: https://otherinter.net/...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 38
http://audreyt.org/ <3 Full editable transcript hosted on gov.tw : https://sayit.pdis.nat.gov.tw/2021-03-03-interview-with-interdependence
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 37
Back in the saddle with Artist and Musician Lawrence Lek for the advent of his latest film AIDOL (2019) and the release of it's wonderful soundtrack on Hyperdub. We discuss AI Pop Stars, SinoFuturism, IP and cultural stereotypes, NFT murder plots and a great deal more Have a wonderful week all :) LINKS Lawrence Lek: https://lawrencelek.com/ AIDOL OST (Hyperdub): https://hyperdub.net/products/lawrence-lek-aidol-ost AIDOL Trailer: https://vimeo.com/331655114 Geomancer Trailer: https://vimeo.com/25...
Mar 17, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 36
In celebration of his new book "Hope Runners of Gridlock", we chat to polymath Simon de la Rouviere about designing new economies, never ending stories, Metamodernism and maintaining hope! Buy the book! https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/hope-runners-of-gridlock Follow Simon's writings! https://blog.simondlr.com/ Follow Simon! https://twitter.com/simondlr...
Mar 17, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 35
A rare conversation with designer David Rudnick https://void.davidrudnick.org/
Mar 01, 2021•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 34
A brief history of tokens and tulips, NFT aesthetics, energy dramas, fan brigades, social tokens and the meataverse with Daniel Keller (New Models) Check out New Models! https://newmodels.io/ https://www.patreon.com/newmodels Topic marks! 3:00 NFTs and Post Internet 5:00 Metahaven “Can Jokes Bring Down Governments?” https://www.amazon.com/Can-Jokes-Bring-Down-Governments/dp/099291468X 7:00 NFTs for n00bs / What is an NFT 11:30 Ethereum Name Services 15:00 History of the space 16:00 Cryptokitties...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 33
Hello everyone! Over the moon this week to welcome Professor Jason Edward Lewis and Suzanne Kite of the Indigenous Protocol and AI Working group! We discuss the origins and goals of the project, different perspectives on creating AI elders, lessons about communicating with non human intelligences from various Indigenous groups, where utopian freedom of information ideas clash with ideas of self determination, and speculations about building a Hawaiian programming language. We may take a break ne...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 32
In this episode we welcome the full Audius squad, Roneil Rumberg, Forrest Browning and Clayton Blaha to discuss their new music protocol, how it establishes the rails for artist led, rather than centrally mandated, pricing and design of economic and interactive relationships, Soundcloud and the dangers of platform risk, and the ways in which we might drag people away from centralised platforms and communicate the benefits unlocked by decentralised scene ownership. It was a wonderful discussion a...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 31
In the advent of their new book “Pharmako-AI”, co-written with OpenAI’s GPT-3 system, we speak to K Allado-McDowell (and GPT-3) about creating with an inhuman (and a human), the nature and history of intelligence, and focussing art and technology towards healing. K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI , and are co-editor, with Ben Vickers, of The Atlas of Anomalous AI . Allado-McDowell records and releases music under the na...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 30
Let's talk about elitism. Buy Eliane's incredible book Elitism: A Progressive Defense https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/elitism-a-progressive-defence
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 29
We welcome author Matt Colquhoun to discuss his release of TWO new books exploring the work of the late, great Mark Fisher. We discuss Mark's life and legacy, Post Capitalist desire, accelerationism, the various misinterpretations of Capitalist Realism, and the need for psychedelic new fantasies. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures/ Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/...
Jan 13, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 28
It was difficult to coordinate release schedules with the CIA but we got there in the end This week we discuss the CIA and the art world with Frances Stonor Saunders, author of the canonical book in this field "Who Paid The Piper?". Big thanks to the HKW for facilitating this discussion, and be sure to check out the other programming from their "Disappearance of Music" event. LINKS Who Paid the Piper?:https://granta.com/products/who-paid-the-piper/ HKW Disappearance of Music: https://www.hkw.de/...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 27
Hi everyone In this episode we welcome Nathan Schneider, professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder , significant player in the platform co-operativism movement and the originator of the term “exit to community” We discuss the state of platform co-operativism today, the intersections between more traditional coop communities and the emerging crypto world, the history of co-ops, and as usual we get to gleefully dunk on the mythologies of the centralised platform economy. xxx...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 26
Hi everyone, happy to share a conversation this week with The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, whose petition making demands of Spotify to improve terms for artists has gathered over 20,000 signatures and counting. We discuss those demands in detail, other initiatives they have undertaken and take the rare opportunity to have a conversation about living under streaming with other actively touring musicians . LINKS Sign up for Justice at Spotify: https://www.unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-...
Dec 08, 2020•57 min•Ep. 25
We join Sarah Friend, core dev from talk of the town project Circles UBI to discuss the crazy few weeks they have been having giving away a UBI through social trust networks. We pull apart how the project works and discuss the history of local currencies, potential dystopian scenarios, "weird fatigue" and the turbulence of pursuing an art practice that involves building things that do stuff. We went on a recording frenzy this past week so have a bunch more great episodes lined up. Hope you are a...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 24
Hi everyone! This week we welcome Dee and Jacob from Zora, a new organisation that is building tools for artists to issue tokens around their creative practices. We discuss their idea of dynamic pricing of art releases and at the advent of the musician RAC releasing his $RAC token through ZORA, the new space of artists and their audiences owning a stake in the value they interdependently create in the world. We also talk a tour around the very short history of artist token models, how these new ...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 23
Back with a conversation with a special person and close friend of the podcast Jay Springett Jay is a writer, theorist and podcaster who falls into a special category of people where we can say with some confidence that whatever they are thinking about will be commonplace in a few years. We discuss a passion of his, Solarpunk, cultural fracking, universe construction, permaculture, Russia’s real jurassic park, K pop and the factory model, reality modelling and aerospace, conspiracy theories and ...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 22
This week we are thrilled to welcome the author and critic Huw Lemmey in celebration of his new novel Unknown Language , written in collaboration with Hildegard of Bingen and out now on Ignota books We discuss what it is like to channel the dead and write a novel together, Hildegard's visions and genius, constructed languages, and Bad Gays; Huw’s wonderful podcast with the historian Ben Miller. We could have talked for a few lifetimes :) Thanks again for the support and have a wonderful week! LI...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 21
The second part of our discussion facilitated in collaboration with Sonar +D and Ars Electronica. Particularly excited to share this one, where we reflect upon what foundations of the club economy appear to be most exposed by the current crisis, discuss Richie's work with AFEM to help get producers paid, and speculate on the possibility of new and necessary economic relationships between DJ's and producers under a guild model. Links Sonar +D https://sonarplusd.com/ Ars Electronica https://ars.el...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 20
Really happy to welcome Other Internet to the podcast, an independent strategy and research squad based between New York and Berlin. Their recent essay “Squad Wealth” looks at the phenomenon of interdependent squads emerging on the internet as a necessary progression from the atomized independence economy. We discuss Squad Wealth and their other incredibly useful conception of Headless Brands, the redundancy of the binary left/right axis when tracking emerging cultural developments, critiques th...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 19
Last night we recorded a long and fun conversation with the Hugo award winning author and futurist Bruce Sterling. As you will hear Bruce has a great deal of knowledge about a great deal of stuff, and as well as his early writing helping to establish the cyberpunk movement, he was also among a handful of people who set the countercultural tone in San Francisco at the dawn of WIRED and the dot com boom. He is also a curator and expert on digital art. We discuss his being the first WIRED cover sto...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 18
This week we are thrilled to bring a conversation with Amy C. Beal from UC Santa Cruz, whose book "New Music New Allies: Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification" not only gives us insight into the role that German state funding has played in American experimental art since the Second World War, but also offers clues as to the unique responsibilities and complications inherent to that continued funding to the present day. We get to discuss how the US State Departmen...
Sep 09, 2020•59 min•Ep. 17
It’s a hot one! This afternoon recorded a discussion with Mixcloud CEO and DJ Nico Perez, and our studio was so hot that we had to keep all the windows open for our own health and also to keep the laptop from spontaneously combusting! As a result this recording is resplendent with the occasional child screaming or dog barking, but hopefully that adds to the experience :) Nico joined us to discuss Mixcloud's select feature for directly supporting artists, how their bold move to introduce payment ...
Sep 01, 2020•50 min•Ep. 16
This week we welcome Jesse Walden, who recently announced the launch of Variant Fund, which looks to support what he describes as “The Ownership Economy”. We discuss Jesse’s background as an artist manager, his early experiments with putting tools into artists hands to control the destiny of their work online, the opportunities that decentralised networks offer to help us transition from the centralised platform economy in music and culture more broadly, and how distributing ownership to users a...
Aug 18, 2020•52 min•Ep. 14
For the second part of our conversation series with contemporary fiction writers we are over the moon to have a chat with Elvia Wilk, who released her debut novel “Oval” last year to great acclaim. Oval is a beautiful book that depicts a world at vastly different scales, not least addressing the contemporary role of the artist as embedded in wider economic systems. We discuss how art communities in the shifting economic landscape of Berlin inspired some of the books themes, the increasingly enta...
Aug 11, 2020•50 min•Ep. 13
For this episode we welcome academic and DJ Larisa Kingston Mann from Temple University in Philadelphia, whose work analyzes the relationship between law, technology, sovereignty and creativity, especially focusing on the ways changing media technologies affect communities’ ability to flourish Her PhD thesis “Rude Citizenship”, soon to be turned into a book, looks at the ways in which Jamaican popular music practices challenge the colonial underpinnings of copyright law and of sovereignty itself...
Aug 04, 2020•53 min•Ep. 12
Since the idea of this podcast first came to mind, we had imagined starting a thread of conversations with fiction authors and artists that in many ways touch on some of issues that we might be exploring in other conversations. Today we are thrilled to kick off this direction with a conversation with Tim Maughan, the author of Infinite Detail, winner of The Guardians best science fiction and fantasy book of 2019, and a gripping and prescient work that explores the simple question: what would hap...
Jul 28, 2020•46 min•Ep. 11
This week we talk to Director at PRS for music and Gomez songwriter Tom Gray, who, through the #brokenrecord hashtag and other advocacy work has been championing the need for reform the way that streaming services work, and reform copyright policy to better protect songwriters and producers. We discuss the case for user centric streaming over the current pro-rata payment model, what is was like to witness the transition from sales to streaming as a successful touring band, and how, at a time whe...
Jun 29, 2020•51 min•Ep. 10
In this episode we speak with Kate Crawford, founder of the AI Now Institute and professor who has spent the last decade studying the political implications of data systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence. We discuss the anatomy of AI systems and full ecosystem of human and material resources behind an Amazon echo, the need to develop an understanding of the exponential accumulation of power under platform capitalism, the use of AI systems in predictive policing and other controver...
Jun 22, 2020•47 min•Ep. 9
In this episode we welcome David Turner, writer and founder of the Penny Fractions newsletter, which holds a critical and often political lens to the latest developments in the music industry. In this episode we discuss the music industry response to Black Lives Matter, positive infrastructural proposals that could lead to long lasting and meaningful diversification, the meme music economy, lessons from ad hoc protest gatherings and sitting on a small plane with Radiohead and Silento. David is a...
Jun 15, 2020•47 min•Ep. 8
