Welcoming crypto art legend and valued Interdependence subscriber Harm van den Dorpel on the podcast to discuss scarcity, genetic algorithms, managing expectations, limit experiences and his upcoming work, Markov's Dream
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Celebrating the release of Debit's album "The Long Count", composed using machine learning tools trained on the worlds largest archive of Mayan wind instruments!
We discuss the genesis of the project, working with the gorgeous grain of nascent AI instruments, ancestral technologies, t...
2022-04-06 22:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
Something different this week. After listening to some great episodes pulling apart the Bandcamp Epic Games acquisition and showing some skepticism about Web 3, I approached Money 4 Nothing podcast to have a convivial discussion about crypto for a collaborative episode. 2022-03-27 16:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We are happy to be back after Mat's COVID trip, discussing art prepping, Sterling's upcoming ArtBlocks piece, and his expert opinions on the state of ML, AR, VR and what is worth watching (and ignoring) about the impending metaverse.
Sterling's upcoming ArtBlocks reveal: 2022-03-16 18:40:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 dro...
2022-02-18 02:11:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 h...
2022-02-10 01:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-02-03 03:32:55 +0000 UTC View Post
As many might know, we have been working for the past year on a way to slowly migrate away from patreon through a self funded software initiative called channel.
Nothing is changing here in the short term, we will continue to post on patreon and appreciate all your support immeasurabl...
2022-01-25 18:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-01-13 17:30:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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 clo...
2021-12-29 17:30:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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 f...
2021-12-17 10:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 crypto and meme stocks rather than adhere to crumbling narratives over how the economy works, and for whom. We also dive into...
2021-12-09 14:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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 cul...
2021-11-30 11:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ar...
2021-11-18 14:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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: 2021-11-11 00:02:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2021-10-20 10:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2021-10-05 15:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Revel...
2021-09-22 16:42:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2021-09-07 13:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2021-08-25 13:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2021-08-13 15:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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, collect...
2021-08-03 18:42:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 m...
2021-07-14 14:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2021-07-06 20:18:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Light...
2021-06-23 21:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Happy to be back! We ended up travelling to get vaccinated and took a short break from recording, but are now back in the saddle!
Thrilled this week to invite artist and author Emily Segal, whose debut auto-fictional novel “Mercury Retrograde” tells the story of a young a...
2021-06-12 02:22:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 d...
2021-05-28 03:06:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2021-05-18 03:48:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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Estimating Bitcoin Electricit...
2021-05-11 01:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post