Hey y'all, after many references to this project in previous episodes we are really happy to welcome Adam and Luke from Context! We discuss their efforts to make Web3 activity legible to humans, debate criticisms of the speculative nature of the Web3 art space, discuss the antecedent of drop culture, the shockwaves caused by making previously hidden financial activity transparent, and the potential for permissionless identities. Check out Context: Context.app Follow Luke: https://twitter.com/wor...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 68
Hey everyone! This week we host the inimitable Cherie Hu to discuss the evolution of Water & Music into the first contributor led research DAO for the music industry, the changing definitions and focus of music & technology, Tik Tok and the politics (and occasional burden) of relatability. It was fun and revealing to work through the particularities and practicalities of making the jump into uncertain territory with Web 3 from a position in the more traditional music industry! Everyone s...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 67
Jacob from ZORA runs us through his latest essay, Hyperstructures, and the future of ZORA protocol. We pull apart how permissionless protocols and cc0 projects are gathering significant momentum and what this might mean for the future of the internet and art making! We also dive down the rabbit hole of some pretty psychedelic NFT use cases. Super fun and enriching as ever. Hope you are all having a great week! Hyperstructures: https://jacob.energy/hyperstructures.html What is CryptoMedia: https:...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 66
A wonderful conversation with Jack Callahan, Eric Farber and Mike Pollard of Nina, who are building a protocol for permanent collections of music on the fast and affordable Solana Blockchain. Made all the more special that we come from similar experimental music scenes, we discuss the critical importance of establishing and archiving context for marginal musics, Myspace data loss and the revival of 00's era aesthetics, reanimating Scatman John, our our mutual appreciation of experimental compose...
Feb 18, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 65
We invited artist Simon Denny over to our studio for the final podcast of the year to go deep on his practice, a commitment to exploring context as a medium, making crypto art and exhibitions before everyone cared, and Dotcom Seance, his wild new art project on Folia. A perfect guest to close out the year! We will be taking a break for the first week of January to focus on something big to be announced soon, and will also be doing an AMA in the early new year - send over questions! Happy new yea...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 64
Big one this week, artist and researcher Kyle McDonald did the gruelling work to calculate the energy and carbon cost of Ethereum, and we try to break down those numbers, calculate their relative impact, discuss critiques of web 3 and debate why they are mostly coming from where they are coming from. Ethereum Emissions: https://kylemcdonald.github.io/ethereum-emissions/ Kyle's art: https://kylemcdonald.net/ Follow Kyle: https://twitter.com/kcimc Who Pays Artists?: http://www.whopaysartists.com/ ...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 63
We had a long and wonderful chat with Ali after reading his "Who Goes Crypto?" piece on the increasing number of working people opting into investing money into the casino of crypto and meme stocks rather than adhere to crumbling narratives over how the economy works, and for whom. We also dive into an area of his expertise, online disinformation and it's political ramifications. Holly dips out half way through the discussion, she wasn't feeling great and we did not realise at the time she had c...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 62
We've been wanting to have this conversation for some time! Scott Moore joins us to discuss Gitcoin's efforts to sustain open source developers, the emerging culture shock between late 20th century free software ideologies and new proposals to get developers paid (which parallels a lot of the culture shock happening in the art and music world rn), discuss the role crypto may play in funding and sustaining public goods, and deviate into why setting good precedent may be important in anticipation ...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 61
We had a wonderful friday night hang with artist Deafbeef, who has had a crazy year transitioning from full time blacksmithing to becoming a respected artist known for his on-chain audio visual experiments. After an intense year we try to go as far off script as is possible and just talk about art, satire, music making and cooking videos. Check out Deafbeef's work: https://www.deafbeef.com/ Follow Deafbeef on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_deafbeef Stuff we discussed Brad Troemel's Athletic Aesth...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 60
Wonderful to welcome Jess from Seed club, who help web communities make the transition to member owned DAOs! Apply for Seed Club: https://seedclub.xyz/ Follow Jess: https://twitter.com/thattallguy
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 59
Slaying Moloch, starting the first crypto art registry, Bowie Bonds, Data markets and data unions with Ocean Protocol's Trent McConaghy Trent has been very influential to our thinking. There are few people who can talk with such fluency on matters we care about, even better build compelling alternatives. In this we discuss how he and his wife Masha built the first crypto art registry, Ascribe, long before the concept of an NFT existed. We also discuss how his latest project Ocean Protocol propos...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 58
In conjunction with this years Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts titled "Iskra Delta "curated by Tjaša Pogačar we interviewed Janez Skrubej, the author of "The Cold War For Information Technology: the Inside Story". Inside indeed, as Janez was the former CEO of Iskra Delta , a major contender on the world stage for not only personal computers, but also large scale networked IT systems. Based within Tito’s Yugoslavia it was caught in the crosshairs in the cold war, working between the US, Soviet...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 57
Hi everyone!! We often have discussions on here about web 3 representing a real opportunity for the independent music industry, and Bruno Guez is an expert on how that might end up transpiring, from his time working as a label head, directing the Merlin Network and more recently in building Revelator. Check out Revelator: https://revelator.com/ Follow Bruno on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brunoguez?lang=en...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 56
Rhea Myers conceptualised a new art world by curiously tinkering with new tools and seeing what art she could make with them. We catch up with her to reflect on the earliest days of crypto art, her experiments with the medium and their art historical roots in 60's conceptualism, the current state of the field, Loot frenzy and the recent arrival of the dragonslayers, and some areas she feels are yet unexplored. This was crazy fun. Follow Rhea on twitter: https://twitter.com/rheaplex Read and chec...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 55
Thrilled to welcome artist, educator and meme master Max Alper (La Meme Young) to join us to discuss running an online art school, sound and meme pedagogy, musical body building and deliver an on the ground report of crypto excessiveness arriving in his new home of Puerto Rico. Learn music with La Meme Young: https://www.patreon.com/la_meme_young Follow his incredible Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/la_meme_young/?hl=en Brian Ferneyhough - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8RTPYaWXj8 Jason E...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 54
Our first ever in person discussion this week with writer and curator Shumon Basar to discuss his new book with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Extreme Self, published in accompaniment with the exhibition "Age of You" most recently hosted at Jameel Art Centre, Dubai. We discuss a number of neologisms that appear in the book, not least Shumon's concept of "Emotional Capitalism", the growing and alarming gulf between reality and the stories we have to comprehend it, and how art instit...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 53
Hey everyone, thanks again for your support! We have a great cast of people joining us over the next few weeks. In line with our recent emphasis on collective character development, we invited Arif Khan and Juliet Gardner of Alethea AI to discuss the incoming age of synthetic media, collectively and autonomously created characters, their concept of interactive NFTs and much more Check out Alethea AI: https://alethea.ai/ Follow Arif: https://twitter.com/ArKhan Follow Juliet: https://twitter.com/c...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 52
If you have spent any time online recently, you have no doubt seen an explosion of remarkable images generated from text with Latent Visions, VQGAN and CLIP. We spoke to Adverb, the creator of Latent Visions, about his project, Promptism, and where we see these applications developing in the next few years (or at this pace, months). Unmissable discussion with someone who has contributed so much to the field this year! Follow Adverb: https://twitter.com/advadnoun...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 51
Thrilled this week to invite artist and author Emily Segal, whose debut auto-fictional novel “Mercury Retrograde” tells the story of a young artists attempt to reconcile the abstract landscape of overfunded startups and the art world, set in New York between Occupy and the Trump Presidency. We discuss what can be learned from the post-internet era as we stand at the precipice of a new internet, the tensions created by the meeting between financial and social capital, what the hell an artist is a...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 50
Hi everyone, this week we are thrilled to invite author and developer Daniel Suarez, whose self published science fiction book Daemon became a cult success for its hard science fiction depiction of a narrow AI preprogrammed to re-order the world after the death of it's game developer author. We discuss Daemon and it's follow up Freedom™, how those books inspired aspects of the formation of Ethereum, the importance of reframing narratives through art, and Daniel's more recent work, Delta-V, resea...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 49
Super excited to share this one, on the advent of our collaboration for Holly+ , we are joined by Chris Deaner and Yotam Mann of Never Before Heard Sounds, a brand new company releasing AI music tools, to discuss approachable AI tools for music making, the inevitable model economy, new approaches to DAWs and the Holly+ project more generally! Never Before Heard Sounds: https://heardsounds.com/ Follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeardSounds Play with Holly+ (and share your results!): htt...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 48
Happy to welcome activist and science communicator Zion Lights to discuss Energy Justice, the scientific consensus around Nuclear Power, the shaky morality of Degrowth positions, Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and her new advocacy organisation, Emergency Reactor! Zion Lights: http://www.zionlights.co.uk/ Join Emergency Reactor: https://www.emergencyreactor.org/
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 47
Continuing our DAO thread we are thrilled to be joined by Aaron & Priyanka of OpenLaw, instrumental in formulating and passing the Wyoming DAO legislation, and stewards of NFT art collection DAO Flamingo, Tempest DAO and The LAO. We discuss what a DAO is, what the legislation means for human and nonhuman DAOs, art collecting in web3 and how DAO governance has been working in practice. This is a great introduction to DAOs and early experiments in the medium for the unfamiliar! Apologies for t...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 46
Watch Josh's streams: https://www.twitch.tv/joshuacitarella Listen to Josh's interviews: https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella Joshua Citarella - 20 Interviews Book: https://www.amazon.com/20-Interviews-Joshua-Citarella/dp/1034279270/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=joshua+citarella&qid=1611597124&sr=8-1 Welcome to TikTok, the Wildly Popular Video App Where Gen Z Makes the Rules: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-tiktok-wildly-popular-video-app-gen-rules...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 45
Follow Jon: https://twitter.com/jgkoomey Turning Numbers into Knowledge: http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com/ Estimating Bitcoin Electricity Use: A Beginner’s Guide: https://www.coincenter.org/estimating-bitcoin-electricity-use-a-beginners-guide/ SORRY, WRONG NUMBER: The Use and Misuse of Numerical Facts in Analysis and Media Reporting of Energy Issues: attached ;) Mike Berners Lee: How Bad are Bananas?: https://www.amazon.com/How-Bad-Are-Bananas-Everything/dp/1553658310 Brandolini's Law: https:...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 44
Rully Shabara: https://www.rullyshabara.id/ Senyawa: https://www.rullyshabara.id/senyawa Alkisah: https://alkisah.net/ Participating label list: https://alkisah.net/track-list/ Raung Jagat: https://www.rullyshabara.id/raung-jagat...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 43
New Design Congress: https://newdesigncongress.org/en/ On Weaponized Design: https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/on-weaponised-design This is Fine: Optimism and Emergency in the P2P network: https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine Cade: https://shiba.computer/ Follow Cade: https://twitter.com/helveticade...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 42
Foundation: https://foundation.app/ Foundation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/withFND Kayvon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saturnial Lindsay on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lindsay_Howard
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 41
Sign up for updates on the Marine Snow project: https://marine-snow.co/sss Follow Tony Lashley: https://twitter.com/tooonyl
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 40
Pseudodoxology Podcast Network: https://www.patreon.com/Pseudodoxia "The Deluge": https://medium.com/@EdwardWaverley/the-deluge-f62968b20972 "The Sublimity of Permanent Collapse": https://medium.com/@EdwardWaverley/the-sublimity-of-permanent-collapse-and-the-leibnizian-problem-of-monadic-optimization-inherent-in-70d6e8be095a Books! Anything by Frederick Beiser The Art of Memory by Frances A.Yates : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of th...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 39
