Art Is Not a Thing
by Ars Electronica
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About this podcast
Art Is Not a Thing is a podcast series about art as a practice of critical inquiry, knowledge production and world-building. From media art, bio-art, sound art to digital activism, speculative design, or data storytelling, the series delves into artistic work that reflects on, questions, and reimagines our practices in and of the world.
The series is developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1.
Host: Hannah Balber
Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marlene Grinner
Editing: Hannah Balber, Ana-Maria Carabelea
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger
Design: Jelena Mönch
Episodes
The newest 20 of 31 episodes
- Is Mediation Normalization? On Mass Shootings, Shock, Recording, and Broadcasting · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 5In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber talks about gun violence in the United States with American visual artists and filmmakers Ryat Yezbick and Milo Talwani. Their project The…
- When did we start trusting AI-generated rumours? · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 4In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses rumors, power, and the way narratives are crafted, manipulated, and distorted: from the political intrigues of the Mughal court…
- Can Humans and Fungi Design Together? · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 3In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses the agency and design capabilities of fungi with our guest Feifei Zhou. Feifei is an architect and artist who co-curated Fungi…
- Could Your Future Kin Be an Avatar? · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 2In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses digital doubles, identity and a new kind of technological theater with Finnish media artist Hanna Haaslahti. Her most recent…
- Has the internet always been sexy? · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 1This episode kicks off a new season, produced in cooperation with Radio Ö1–Austria’s leading cultural voice. Today, radio journalist Hannah Balber from Radio Ö1 talks to American…
- Quantum Uncertainty in a Capitalist Reality · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 12In this episode, host Ana-Maria Carabelea is joined by artist Libby Heaney. Libby’s work engages quantum processes as active constraints that undo linear causality, hierarchical…
- Succumbing to the Machine: Desire in the Age of AI · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 11In this episode, host Ana-Maria Carabelea is joined by artist Erin Robinson. Her work, XXX Machina, operates as an autonomous desire machine that generates an endless stream of…
- Challenging VR's Procrustean Bed: Disability, Tactile Epistemologies, Worldbuilding · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 10In this episode, host Ana-Maria Carabelea is joined by artist Iz Paehr to talk about inherently ableist technologies. Their work Feeling Virtual: An Archive of Touch looks at how…
- Anthropocene Oscillations · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 9In this episode, host Ana-Maria Carabelea is joined by researcher and lecturer Alex Damianos and architect John Palmesino of Territorial Agency. Two years after the Subcommission…
- The Politics of Seeing and Being Seen · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 8Using both the conditions and limitations of the photographic medium, Trevor Paglen's investigations into state surveillance, military operations, and data collection raise…
- Computational Compost: Against the Resource Intensivity of Data Centers · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 7In this episode, Hanna Balber talks with architect Marina Otero Verzier about the environmental cost of data centres. Challenging the image of the 'cloud' as an immaterial…
- System Vulnerability · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 6In this episode, Hannah talks to German media artist Simon Weckert about the societal impacts of digitalisation and his artistic strategies to disrupt, redirect, or reduce the…
- Post-truth Museums and Their Post-colonial Directors · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 5In this episode, Hannah Balber talks to German-Iraqi artist Nora Al-Badri about the colonial inscriptions borne by Europe’s cultural heritage. Her work, The Post-truth Museum…
- Imaginative Futuring for Social Change · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 4In this episode, Hannah talks to members of the Kairos Futura collective from Nairobi, Ajax Axe, Abdul Rop and Willie Ng'ang'a. Their project, The Wild Future Lab, won this…
- Robotic Journeys through the Andes · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 3In this episode, Hannah talks to Golden Nica winner Paula Gaetano Adi about Guanaquerx, the first robot in history to cross the Andes Mountains. More than a technical object…
- Outsourcing Ethics: A Robot Speaks Our Violence · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 2In the podcast episode, Hannah talks to artists Thomas Kvam and Frode Oldereid about their installation Requiem for an Exit - a piece featuring a towering robot delivering a…
- Web of AI: Linking Homes and Battlefields · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 1In today's episode, we talk to Sarah Ciston about their award-winning project, AI War Cloud Database. The project visualises the links between everyday life technologies and…
- Making Kin: Cells, Software, Synthetic Selves · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 12In today’s episode, we are joined by artists Charlotte Jarvis and Zoran Srdić Janežič, and writer, educator, and curator Rick Dolphijn to discuss entities at the intersection of…
- Touching Memories · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 11In this episode, host Ana Carabelea talks to Yulia Sion, Nuno Correia, and Michael Banissy about the power of haptics and sound in recreating and conveying memories, as a way to…
- Virtually Real: Writing Transmedia Spaces · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 10In this episode we talk to Lara Lesmes + Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular, Pierre Christophe Gam, and Brooklyn J. Pakathi about spaces - private, public, real, virtual, but most…
