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The Culture & Technology PodcastThe End of a WorldWorld modeling for future scenarios.
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Patricia Reed is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Her work concerns the entanglements between epistemology, modeling and politics adapted to planetary scales of cohabitation. She is also part of the Laboria Cuboniks ‘Xenofeminist’ working group.
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Severin Matusek is a writer and founder of co—matter, a research & strategy studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
The End of a World is an essay by Patricia Reed that examines the distinction between the global and th...
2024-01-1731 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastThe Right to BreatheWhat does it mean to have a right to clean air?
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Daniela Gandorfer is Assistant Professor at University of Westminster Law School, London, with a PhD from Princeton University. Her research focuses on law and emerging modes of normativity in scientific and technological frontier spaces - such as quantum physics, digital and crypto technologies and psychedelics.
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Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
The Logische Phantasie Lab (Lo...
2023-10-0232 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastSensesHow can we design experiences beyond the screen?
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Dan Koerner is the creative director at Sandpit, a creative digital studio based in Melbourne and Adelaide that specialises in immersive storytelling through new digital technologies.
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Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Sandpit is a creative digital studio that creates physical, tactile projects that help people engage with the real world in different ways through technology. https://www.we...
2023-07-1125 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastPortalsA door to an alternate reality.
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Space Popular is a research-driven architecture, design, and media studio that explores the future spirit of spatial experience through virtual reality, film, exhibitions, speculative writing, as well as buildings and objects. Space Popular is directed by Lara Lesmes & Fredrik Hellberg.
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Severin Matusek is a writer, curator, strategist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
The Portal Galleries is a research project creating an archive of portals in fi...
2023-03-2922 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastMeans of ProductionThe changing role of cultural institutions.
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Merel van Helsdingen founded Nxt Museum during the pandemic. It’s the first museum in the Netherlands dedicated to new media art.
Tina Lorenz is the Project Manager for Digital Development at Staatstheater Augsburg. She grew up a member of the Chaos Computer Club and is a founding member of the hackspaces metalab Vienna and Binary Kitchen Regensburg. Since 2012, she has published and spoken on the possibilities of digital theatre.
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Severin Matusek is a strategist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio expl...
2023-03-0822 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastInto the MetaverseWorld-building for an emancipatory future.
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Keiken is an interdisciplinary artist collective co-founded by Isabel Ramos, Hana Omori and Tanya Cruz.
Martina Menegon is an artist working predominantly with Interactive and Extended Reality Art and was co-curator at 2022’s CIVA festival.
Eva Fischer is an independent curator, cultural manager and lecturer in the field of experimental media, immersive art and technology. Since 2021, she has been directing the new Viennese media art festival CIVA - Contemporary Immersive Visual Art.
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Severin Matusek is a strategist and founder of co—matter, a cr...
2023-01-1929 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastA New Digital HumanismWhat does a European approach to innovation look like?
When thinking about digital innovation and policy around technology we often view it either through the lens of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism or Chinese digital authoritarianism. We don’t often think about what a European approach to innovation might look like. Francesca Bria on the other hand spends most of her time thinking about just that. In our conversation, Francesca offered insight on Europe’s role in digital innovation, how culture informs technology and how citizens can get active in the area of digital innovation and policy.
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2022-05-1230 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastProduct DesignCan 3D printing bring us closer to nature?
3D printing has reached a level of quality and complexity that the boundaries of what’s possible with the technology feel almost limitless. We can create entirely new shapes, geometries and materials that would be otherwise impossible to manufacture and in many industries, it’s helping to make processes more efficient and more sustainable. Julia Koerner is an innovator in the use of 3D printing in the fashion space and that’s why we took the time to sit down with her to better understand how these processes and her work are co...
2022-04-1132 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastCommerce and CultureHow do we relate to a global market that is increasingly impersonal?
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside is the most recent book from artist and technologist Xiaowei Wang. We sat down with Xiaowei to discuss innovations in China’s countryside, agency in the tech community and how reading tarot gave them a sense of connection during a disconnected pandemic.
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Xiaowei Wang is a technologist, a filmmaker, an artist and a writer. As creative director at Logic magazine their work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, tech...
2022-02-1331 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastHijacking the SystemWhat can early Internet art teach us about the paradigms of digital technology?
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Cornelia Sollfrank is an artist, researcher and university lecturer who is based in Berlin. Cornelia was one of the early pioneers of Net Art and Cyberfemism and recurring themes within her work include infrastructures, aesthetics of the commons and techno-feminist practice and theory.
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Severin Matusek is an editor, producer and strategist who has spent the last decade researching how technology transforms culture, communities and society.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Rhizome is a not-for-profit...
2021-11-1038 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastHumans & MachinesCan technology make us better humans instead of replacing humans?
Greg Lynn has been at the forefront of architecture and design since the early 2000s but his current focus is around technology that encourages us to move and enables people the opportunity to be more active.
In this episode, we talk about just that as well as the ethics of technology, sustainability in architecture and the ins and outs of robot etiquette.
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Greg Lynn is an architect, designer, and professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. He is CEO...
2021-10-1435 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastWhat is Data?We take a look beyond the hype and explore data's relationship with culture
There’s a lot of hype around the word data these days. But what’s less clear is its exact meaning – and its relationship with culture.
For Episode 5 of the podcast, media theorist Paul Feigelfeld is joined by technologist and entrepreneur Dr. Sabine Seymour, who recently joined the Polypoly Cooperative to give people more control over their personal data. The two debunk the many myths swirling around this hot topic, from the history of computer science to AI’s black box and the future of equit...
2021-03-1932 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastTheatre in a PandemicWhere do we go from here?
When we’re unable to gather in person, unable to experience the magic of encounters and exchange in physical proximity, what is lost?
For the bonus Episode 4 of the Culture and Technology Podcast – recorded in German – two friends and doyennes of theatre, actor Mavie Hörbiger and costume designer Aino Laberenz pick up the phone to consider how the pandemic’s restrictions have cast new light on their metier. By calling into question the relevance of art in times of crisis, they find its role to be of existential importance.
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2021-03-1934 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastThe Relationship Between Culture and TechnologyWhat feelings does technology evoke?
What feelings does technology evoke? Thanks to pop culture, Hollywood, and the media, technological narratives tend to swing between the utopic or dystopic – the glorious or the terrifying.
For Episode 1 of The Culture and Technology Podcast, we invite Professor of Anthropology Shannon Mattern and media theorist and curator Paul Feigelfeld to deconstruct the concept and explore its intersections with culture.
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Shannon Mattern is Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research in New York City. She teaches and writes about the infrastructure, spaces and architecture of...
2021-03-1830 min
Apollo 13 Minute PodcastMinute 135: The EndJim Lovell is surrounded by the applauding Iwo Jima crew.
TITLE: THE END
MUSIC: “Apollo 13 End Credit, Featuring Annie Lennox”
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Jim Lovell – TOM HANKS
Fred Haise – BILL PAXTON
Jack Swigert – KEVIN BACON
Ken Mattingly – GARY SINISE
Gene Kranz – ED HARRIS
Marilyn Lovell – KATHLEEN QUINLAN
Barbara Lovell – MARY KATE SCHELLHARDT
Susan Lovell – EMILY ANN LLOYD
Jeffrey Lovell – MIKO HUGHES
Jay Lovell – MAX ELLIOTT SLADE
Blanch Lovell – JEAN SPEEGLE HOWARD
Mary Haise –...
2020-08-1400 min