Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists redefining spaces through technology
by Robin Petterd
Latest episode
Moving from projection mapping to physical light with Kit Webster
Moving from projection mapping to physical light with Kit Webster
About this podcast
Explore the practice of creating media art installations with the Creating New Spaces podcast. In each episode, the host Robin Petterd brings you interviews with artists who are pushing the boundaries of art and technology. The podcast focuses on the intricacies of media installation and art, revealing the creative and technical processes behind the scenes. Perfect for artists, students, educators, and anyone interested in experimental art practice. Listen to hear conversations that illuminate the processes and challenges of new ways of working.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 36 episodes
- Moving from projection mapping to physical light with Kit Webster · 44 min · Episode 36In this podcast you will learn how Kit Webster moves between digital visualisation, physical prototyping and audiovisual composition to create large-scale media art…
- Risk, Creativity, and Collaboration in Public Art with Emily O’Brien · 37 min · Episode 35In this podcast you will learn how early risk planning can help you protect the creative objective, work through uncertainty, and deliver ambitious media art in public spaces…
- Public art, permanence and decay with Nigel Helyer · 33 min · Episode 34In this podcast, Nigel Helyer explains how public artworks are designed for specific lifespans, how media installations can be maintained as their technologies age, and why…
- How Craig Walsh uses projection to transform trees into temporary public monuments · 40 min · Episode 33In this interview, Craig Walsh explores the creative process behind Monuments. Monuments is a long-running outdoor projection project that uses projected portraits on trees to…
- Using technology as a social instrument with Georgie Pinn · 28 min · Episode 32In this podcast you will learn how Georgie Pinn designs interactive media artworks for public space. You’ll hear how Georgie builds participation, accessibility, and emotional…
- Listening, prototyping and delivering media art in public space with Betty Sargeant · 31 min · Episode 31In this conversation, we hear how Betty Sargeant develops site-led installations through listening, prototyping, and stakeholder collaboration. We also discuss why delivery…
- Designing public interactions through sound with Michael Baker · 26 min · Episode 30In this podcast you will learn how sound-led public artworks can turn everyday places into shared, playable environments. In this interview Michael Baker is the Sound Director at…
- Staying, Making, Connecting: The 2025 creative playbook · 15 min · Episode 29In this podcast you will learn how media artists stay with uncertainty, make deliberate choices with technology, and build work through collaboration—with people, place, ecology…
- Creating a shared practice with Alex Moss & Maggie Jeffries · 26 min · Episode 26In this podcast you will learn how artists Alex Moss and Maggie May Jeffries developed a shared creative process that bridges traditional painting and interactive media. In this…
- Cultivating curiosity in creative coding with Matthew Ragan · 31 min · Episode 27In this podcast you will learn why curiosity matters more than technical skill. In this interview, Matthew Ragan explores coding as a practice of sculpting and rehearsal, showing…
- Embracing unpredictability and physical process in immersive art with Georgie Friedman · 21 min · Episode 26In this podcast, discover how physical prototyping, water systems, and shifting sound and light bring Georgie Friedman’s installations to life. In this interview, Georgie…
- Intervals: Creative responses to space with Johan F. Karlsson · 17 min · Episode 25In this podcast, you’ll learn how Johan F. Karlsson uses observation, intuition, and the concept of ma to shape site-specific installations that reveal subtle changes in space…
- Keith Armstrong on collaborating with forests · 29 min · Episode 24What does it mean to make art for a forest—not just about it? Keith Armstrong explores this question through his long-term project Forest Art Intelligence, which blends…
- The evolution of Lacunae with Soma Lumia · 26 min · Episode 23In this podcast, you will learn how Lacunae, an interactive installation by Tasmanian artist collective Soma Lumia, has evolved through multiple iterations. Lacunae is an…
- Media art for public spaces with Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum · 31 min · Episode 22What happens when an artwork is shaped by the unpredictability of public space? In this interview Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum discuss What We Bring, an outdoor…
- Breaking barriers to creative coding through analog techniques with Rita Eperjesi · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 21In this podcast, you will learn how Rita Eperjesi is rethinking the way creative coding is taught with her project, DECODE: A Friendly Introduction to Creative Coding through…
- Creating reflective spaces and secular rituals with Matt Warren · 18 min · Episode 20In this interview, learn how to create immersive atmospheres that evoke self-reflection and emotional engagement in audiences. This conversation features Matt Warren, an artist…
- Fluid visions: Exploring lava, femininity, and form with Yizhen Li · 20 min · Episode 19In this interview, new media artist Yizhen Li shares the creative process behind Lava’s Lament, an immersive installation exhibited at Gray Area in San Francisco in early 2024 as…
- Art and science collaboration: Transforming environmental data into art with Nigel Helyer · 31 min · Episode 18In this interview, artist Nigel Helyer shares the creative and technical processes behind BioSphere | DataSphere, a series of works based on environmental data from the Tasman…
- Exploring visual harmonies through liquid screens with Bego M. Santiago · 28 min · Episode 17In this interview, artist Bego M. Santiago discusses the creative process behind her series Cosmos: All That is Ordered. Cosmos: All That is Ordered is a series of installations…
