Creative Disturbance

Voices From Ukraine: Artist Olia Fedorova, On the Frontline of the War

Artist Olia Fedorova lives and is sheltering in Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv, 40 kilometers from the border with Russia. She shares stories about day to day life during wartime, reflects on how the meaning of her art is changing since the invasion and her views on Russian culture and imperialism.

Voices From Ukraine: Photographers Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov. Music by Maryana Klochoko

Elena Subach and Viachelslav talk about the Russian invasion of their country and the impact of the war on their life and practice from the Western edge of Ukraine where they are volunteering to help refugees flee into neighboring Central European countries.

News From Central Asia: A Conversation with Creative Director and Curator Aida Sulova

Aida Sulova (KGZ) talks with Janeil Engelstad about her recent exhibition "News From Central Asia," organized for The Jewelry Library in NYC and her practice building communities and planting seeds for social change in Kyrgyzstan and the US.  

Orange Soda

The best drink around

Artists in Residence During the Pandemic: Conversations with Endri Dani and Judit Kis at Residency Unlimited

Islamic geometric patterns and Expended Diagrams

Steven began the session by tying it back to an earlier presentation of his Expanded Diagram Project. One of his aspirations of that still ongoing study is to transcend the overly constrained, largely western-based categories of contemporary art by illuminating specific kinds of creative processes that span a wide range of historical and contemporary world cultures and practices. From there he turned to yet another multi-media project called the Exurban Archipelago Project which focuses on t...

Extending Care through Curation, the Dynamic of Central, Eastern European Art and More: A Conversation with Curator and Art Historian Róna Kopeczky

A rising start in European Art, independent curator and art historian Róna Kopeczky talks with MAP’s Janeil Engelstad about the importance of caregiving and how that is central to her curation, feminism in the former communist bloc countries, the expanding notion of the print and more.

Episode 8: Towards Embracing Coding in Medical Practice and Beyond

How would enabling professionals with knowledge in coding transform medical practice in developing countries? Join us with Ayen Kuol and Stephen Lagu as we dive into the landscape of coding technology in practice and explore its relationship & possibilities with the people of South Sudan. We introduce the concept of the 'psychology of coding' , and some of the ways that the cultural gaps--which obstruct the propagation of new technology--can be bridged. At the core of this discussion is a vi...

Art and Renewable Energy: A Conversation with Land Art Generator

Janeil Engelstad talks with Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, founders of Land Art Generator about the social impact, politics and aesthetics of renewable energy and the role of art in providing solutions to climate change.

Art and Renewable Energy: A Conversation with Land Art Generator

Janeil Engelstad talks with Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, founders of Land Art Generator about the social impact, politics and aesthetics of renewable energy and the role of art in providing solutions to climate change.

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land with Toni Jensen

Our guest today is Toni Jensen, the author of Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and indigenous women's lives which is out now from Ballantine Books. Carry was described as “an unsettling account that creeps into your bones” in the New York Times Book Review. She’s previously the author of book, From the Hilltop, a collection of linked stories published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press, as well as es...

Johannes Birringer: from Literature to Dance, Choreography, Digital Architectures and then Deep Underground

We discussed ideas around embodiment, re-embodiment, kimospheres, atmospheres, technology and issues related to the practice of Johannes Birringer as a choreographer, director and professor of performance technologies. His publications have taken up important issues surrounding the body and technologies, theatre, dance, and choreography. Birringer underlines the pivotal moment when he attended a Pina Bausch performance, as a young student, and how it affected and redirected his career.

Jordan Wirfs-Brock - Radio Story Telling with Sonification

Jordan Wirfs-Brock is making innovative sonifications for radio. She is working on a PhD in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research explores how voice interaction, sonification, and narrative support people as they learn to listen to data, producing more meaningful and engaging experiences with information. She has studied how people consume news across various devices and transition between offline and online behaviors.

Medical Nihilism: A Conversation With Jacob Stegenga

Our guest on this podcast is Jacob Stegenga, the author of Care and Cure and Medical Nihilism. We discuss the effectiveness of medical interventions, the relationship between philosophers and practitioners, how to deal with complexity, the nature of sexual desire, and much more. In this episode:  How do doctors and other medical professionals respond to the argument for medical nihilism? (2:45) — Issues of publication bias and replication crisis: parallels between animal cognition resear...

Virtual Events in the Arts: A Conversation with Michele Hanlon

Michele Hanlon, Associate Dean for the Arts at UT Dallas, discusses how teaching and performance have moved online in spring 2020, highlighting the School of Arts & Humanities Virtual Events in the Arts. In this episode:  How to keep figure-drawing classes going under a shelter-in-place order (1:15) — Using Blackboard Collaborate to conduct a conditioning class in real time, as well as recording sessions for later (4:15) — Working remotely: from dance choreography to music ensembles (6:3...

The State of the Arts and Humanities: A Conversation with Nils Roemer

Our guest on this episode of the podcast is Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of the Arts and Humanities, director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. In this podcast:  The timing of the transition to online learning (1:00) — The importance of engagement, closeness, proximity in humanities education (2:45) — Adapting to the technology of Microsoft Teams, online classes (5:1...

Episode 7 The Quantum Provocation

Can Quantum Physics help us solve the problems of race and discrimination in our society? This provocation explores science culture and art through the medium of the Spoken Word. Hear the contemplations of a recovering Astronomer; learn of the superposition of exitons of injustice in discriminatory design; the questionings of a quantum lab observer; and the hidden consciousness in man-made systems.   A compilation of the voices of Roger Malina Kylee Hong  Arya Agrawal  Ayen K...

Episode 6 Part 3 of the class Laboratories Ways of Knowing Science and Poetry

Get insight into the, fun, wonder full, explorative, walk in the rain kind of romantic - interdisciplinary class designed and taught by Nomi stone: Ways of Knowing Science and Poetry. Learn of the various processes and experiences that science and Poets have in fusing the arts and sciences.

Episode 6 part 2 of Science Knowledge Power and Poetry

Join Nomi Stone and Ayen Kuol in discussing the relationships between Knowledge and Power, Science and culture. Contemplate on why we as a society value what we value, and what is truth. Reflect on your poetic vision of the world around you.

Episode 6 part 1 our beginnings Science Poetry with Nomi Stone

Immerse yourself into the journey of a poet and scientist in discovering the joy of Poetry, Science and Poetic science. "What would it be like to be a field worker of the Natural World and the sciences?"  Nomi Stone, Anthropologist, Poet, designer, and teacher of the undergraduate course, Ways of Knowing: Science and Poetry, challenges the beliefs of a compartmentalized and labeled world.

Episode 5 Carbon Nanotube Entangled Soundscape

Get entranced by the digital soundscape created by an entanglement of the sounds of elements, cultures, and data from carbon Nanotube Scanning Electron Images. Produced by Ian Clothier, this soundscape features the sounds: -A traditional New Zealand Putorino tane played by Darren Robert Terama Ward -Fire By Dynamicell -Carbon Nanotube SEM -Haley's comet -Comet Swan -Meteor showers. This piece is created as an artistic response to the collaborative study of carbon Nanotube ent...

Episode 3 part 2 Messiness of collaborations a scientist an artist and a poet

The very notion of a collaboration tends to get sidelined. Rarely are lessons given on 'how to collaborate'. Yet Collaborations, especially the interdisciplinary kind, remain one of the most challenging ways of working. Get insight into the collaborative process of an interdisciplinary study of Carbon Nanotubes Entanglement- with Ayen Kuol as the artist, Blake Bathman the Poet and Josef Velten the scientist.

Episode 4 Tangled across the fractals. A poetic Study of Carbon Nanotubes

Dive into a 3 part poetic landscape that both investigates and celebrates the growth and entanglement of carbon nanotubes. A result of the collaboration between Artist, Poets and scientist. Poems featured are : 'I remember'- By Blake Bathman, featuring video installation by Kylee Hong 'Entangled Dance'- By Ayen Kuol C is for Carbon - by Ayen Kuol

Episode 3 part 1 Messiness of collaborations the poet the artist the scientist

The very notion of a collaboration tends to set sidelined. Rarely are lessons given on 'how to collaborate'. Yet Collaborations, especially the interdisciplinary kind, remain one of the most challenging ways of working. Get insight into the collaborative process of an interdisciplinary study of Carbon Nanotubes Entanglement- with Ayen Kuol as the artist, Blake Bathman the Poet and Josef Velten the scientist.

Episode 2 Is culture technology

Join Ayen Kuol and Josef Velten as they reflect on examples in human history, and ponder the question, “Is Culture a Technology?” Can culture be designed? This podcast is intended to incite deeper thinking on the subject.

The Search for Dark Matter: A Conversation with Xiangdong Ji

Our guest on this podcast is Xiangdong Ji, project leader for the PandaX dark matter search collaboration in China's JinPing Deep-Underground Lab in Sichuan, China, and Distinguished University Professor of physics at the University of Maryland. We discuss the history of the search for dark matter, and the beauty and simplicity of physics.

Episode 1 Part 2 Art as a method of research

Does modern Science have room to acknowledge and incorporate other disciplines and cultures in its progression and its methods? Join Josef Velten and Ayen Kuol as they discuss the concept of using Art as a method of scientific research.

Episode 1 Part 1 Concerning the Ethics of Science

Are we as scientists understanding the bigger picture of our roles as scientist in our modern world? Are we aware of the full spectrum of our power and implications our work has on the world? Join Josef Velten and Ayen Deng as they discuss their scientific experiences.

Modernism, Classicism and the Built Environment: A Conversation with Justin Shubow Part 2

On this episode, we talk with Justin Shubow, President of the National Civic Art Society, about modernism and classicism, the profession of architecture and its role in civil society, public monuments in Washington, D.C., the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, and much more.  

CD_AR_Shubow_2

On this episode, we talk with Justin Shubow, President of the National Civic Art Society, about modernism and classicism, the profession of architecture and its role in civil society, public monuments in Washington, D.C., the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, and much more.  

Modernism, Classicism and the Built Environment: A Conversation with Justin Shubow Part 1

On this episode, we talk with Justin Shubow, President of the National Civic Art Society, about modernism and classicism, the profession of architecture and its role in civil society, public monuments in Washington, D.C., the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, and much more.

A Conversation with Chris Arnade

Chris Arnade is a writer and photographer, and the author of the book Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, which is published by Sentinel.  His work has also been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among many others.  Before that, he worked on Wall Street for 20 years as a trader, with Salomon Brothers and Citigroup, before that, he earned a PhD in Physics from Johns Hopkins, and before that, he grew up in t...

Dignity: A Conversation with Chris Arnade

Our guest today is Chris Arnade, the author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. He is a freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Guardian, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal among many others. In this podcast: What does “dignity” mean, and how do you recognize it when you see it? (1:30) — How the bureaucracy of “helping institutions” can have a bad effect on the people they are trying to serve (6:30) — ...

O que aprendemos até aqui

Luciano Queiroz (@lucianolqueiroz) e João Silveira (@johngaucho) recebem o querido Gustavo Reinecken (@g_reinecken) do podcast Trabalho de Mesa para conversar sobre a primeira temporada do Papo ArteCiência e o que estamos planejando para segunda. Nosso objetivo é abordar assuntos relacionados a arte-ciência através de entrevistas com pesquisadores brasileiros nesse campo de estudo e entender o que é arte-ciência e como ela está inserida em nossas vidas. O Papo ArteCiência é uma parceira ...

Art and Protest: A Conversation with Aram Han Sifuentes

MAP's series of podcasts produced in conjunction with MAP2020: The Further We Roll, the More We Gain that critically examines the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment continues with Artist Aram Han Sifuentes. Aram talks about her projects in support of voting and protests, Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can't and Protest Lending Library and other related topics, such as who in the U.S. can vote and who cannot and why.

Rescue and Resistance: A Conversation with Mark Roseman Part 2

Our guest on this episode is Mark Roseman, the author of Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany. We discuss the Bund, a close-knit group that worked together to save lives in Nazi Germany, the ideas of “functionary” and “perpetrator,” the Wannsee Conference, and much more.

Medical Technology makes it possible. Should we choose it?

Elizabeth Escalante is a Stone Fellow at the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at the UT Dallas who studies ethics issues involved in medical technology. In this episode, Eun Ah Lee and Elizabeth talk about Elizabeth's current study of uterus transplantation as an ethical alternative to commercial gestational surrogacy.

The Marburg Experience

In the second episode of the ArtSciLab Talk Show, host, Maisha Razzaque sits down in a remote skype session with lab member, Jacob Hunwick to discuss his study abroad experience in Marburg, Germany and the launch of the ArtSci Abroad initiative. At Phillips University Marburg, Jacob has been working to research, discover and document exemplars of art-science and well-being.   Link to project mentioned in episode: shorturl.at/nHJT8

SMRN Podcast On Genealogies of Breath (2020)_02

Juan Castrillón and Kalpana Subramanian discuss the aesthetics of breath. They ask how one might explore non-Western genealogies of breath in connection with notions of subjectivity, affectivity and ‘becoming.’ Juan sheds light on sonic perspectives of dervishes from the Anatolian peninsula drawing on his own experience of playing the Ney (a reed flute). Kalpana touches upon notions of breath arising from Yoga and Buddhist knowledge traditions. Editing: Juan Castrillón and Kalpana Subraman...

Les archives du present

"Les archives du présent" est un projet de documentation de la Fondation Zinsou qui consiste, selon sa directrice, à redonner aux africains les moyens de se réapproprier leur histoire. Avant d'y venir, Marie-Cécile Zinsou a bien voulu nous faire part de son point de vue sur les contingences locales qui affectent le développement d'une institution telle que la sienne et sur l'importance des femmes dans les structures du continent.

Revealing History: The Social, Political and Spiritual Power of Indigenous Woman

Filmmaker and Educator Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk) reflects on growing up in the Akwesasne territories of Northern New York, her new film Without a Whisper, which tells the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragettes, and her work as an artist and Indigenous educator.

Fondation Zinsou

Ouvert en 2005 sous l'impulsion de Marie-Cecile Zinsou, la Fondation Zinsou est un musee qui oeuvre a la promotion de l'art contemporain africain. Il est question dans cette premiere partie de l'entretien du statut des arts au Benin, ancien royaume du Dahomey, de leurs rapports avec les formes vivantes, et de collaborations internationales.  

Art that Engages Power and Systems of Thought: A Conversation with Cauleen Smith

Artist Cauleen Smith reflects upon her work, the value of money and putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, Alice Coltrane, the tools used by the powerful and the flag she designed for MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain. MAP2020 commemorates and critically examines the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. MAP commissioned 19 women artists and writers, including Smith, to create work for MAP2020.

Conversation with Anatur Andic and Atif Akin

Conversation with Anatur Andic and Atif Akin

Ask your own question and answer it, 6'48

Leonardo Space Art Science and Culture Workshop "All Women Crew - Celebrating Women in Art, Astronautics and Astronomy", organised by Annick Bureaud with the contribution of Ewen Chardronnet and Susmita Mohanty.   The workshop could not take place on March 20th-21st 2020 as planned, the podcasts were recorded in the different pods where the participating women are living on spaceship Earth in March & April 2020.   Each participant answered the same first question and then two other q...

We are in 2121, if we were to have a workshop on space art science and culture, what would you like to be talking about

Leonardo Space Art Science and Culture Workshop "All Women Crew - Celebrating Women in Art, Astronautics and Astronomy", organised by Annick Bureaud with the contribution of Ewen Chardronnet and Susmita Mohanty.   The workshop could not take place on March 20th-21st 2020 as planned, the podcasts were recorded in the different pods where the participating women are living on spaceship Earth in March & April 2020.   Each participant answered the same first question and then two other q...

Which woman would you put in the "Hall of Fame" in astronomy or astronautics

Leonardo Space Art Science and Culture Workshop "All Women Crew - Celebrating Women in Art, Astronautics and Astronomy", organised by Annick Bureaud with the contribution of Ewen Chardronnet and Susmita Mohanty.   The workshop could not take place on March 20th-21st 2020 as planned, the podcasts were recorded in the different pods where the participating women are living on spaceship Earth in March & April 2020.   Each participant answered the same first question and then two other q...

Weightlessness or gravity

Leonardo Space Art Science and Culture Workshop "All Women Crew - Celebrating Women in Art, Astronautics and Astronomy", organised by Annick Bureaud with the contribution of Ewen Chardronnet and Susmita Mohanty.   The workshop could not take place on March 20th-21st 2020 as planned, the podcasts were recorded in the different pods where the participating women are living on spaceship Earth in March & April 2020.   Each participant answered the same first question and then two other q...

Operational Language or Aesthetic Language, 15'52

Leonardo Space Art Science and Culture Workshop "All Women Crew - Celebrating Women in Art, Astronautics and Astronomy", organised by Annick Bureaud with the contribution of Ewen Chardronnet and Susmita Mohanty.   The workshop could not take place on March 20th-21st 2020 as planned, the podcasts were recorded in the different pods where the participating women are living on spaceship Earth in March & April 2020.   Each participant answered the same first question and then two other q...

Bio or Zoe

Leonardo Space Art Science and Culture Workshop "All Women Crew - Celebrating Women in Art, Astronautics and Astronomy", organised by Annick Bureaud with the contribution of Ewen Chardronnet and Susmita Mohanty.   The workshop could not take place on March 20th-21st 2020 as planned, the podcasts were recorded in the different pods where the participating women are living on spaceship Earth in March & April 2020.   Each participant answered the same first question and then two other q...