Creative Disturbance
620 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCreative Disturbance is an international, multilingual platform that provides a unique virtual environment for the intellectually curious across the globe to meet, network, collaborate, create, and socialize.
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The Sun's Point of View [ENG]
May 30, 2016 07:22 - 16 minutes - 18.4 MBLucy HG Solomon of the art collective, The League of Imaginary Scientists, probes future outcomes of Earth through human physicality. The results range from prosthetic tree limbs to human glaciers and posit human sensory organs for perceiving environmental data. She will present multidisciplinary art that combines digital media, dance, chemistry and geology.
Introducing Kapital Movie Industry Corporation [EN]
May 25, 2016 04:30 - 17 minutes - 19.8 MBStriving to become the “Hollywood of South Sudan”, Kapital Movie Industry is a network of visionary young artists, documentarists, Graphic Designers, Filmmakers, Web Designers, Film Directors and Visual Effect Artists who are interested in telling the story of their new country and helping to build its future. With the PeaceHackCamp they organize each year, the aim to engage with youth using graphic technology, cinema and video to promote peace in South Sudan. In this podcast, Bakahika Bruno...
Machines Lie with Judge John Marshall [ENG]
May 23, 2016 05:30 - 16 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this podcast Roger Malina discusses lying machines with Judge John Marshall and Ken Murphy. Judge John Marshall explains the theory of cyber ethics and talks about the expansion of machines and the overlap that is growing into the legal systems. Judge John Marshall also discusses with Ken Murphy the creation and advancement of space law.
Anahtar Sözcükler: Ses ve Şehir
May 23, 2016 05:30 - 13 minutes - 30.5 MBKültür, teknoloji ve sanat âlemlerinde ufuk açıcı çalışmalara imza atan isimlerle sohbetler. Anahtarsözcüklerimiz: yaratıcılık, ihtimaller ve Türkiye.
Sound's Path to Academia [ENG]
May 20, 2016 05:30 - 16 minutes - 19.4 MBIn this podcast Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone discusses the then and now of sound. Sandy Stone describes the route that she has taken to academia "where all good people eventually do arrive". Sandy Stone also explains her obsession with technology and analog. http://sandystone.com
A Song for the Absentees [ENG]
May 19, 2016 19:06 - 16 minutes - 19.2 MB'A Song for the Absentees' is an interactive sound installation where participants' voice trigger various sounds of animals that are endangered. Three microphones and speakers are dispersed throughout the space. Microphones constantly capture sounds that participants generated, and the frequency (pitch) of generated sound is constantly analyzed in computer software, and finally corresponding sound files of endangered species are triggered. The triggering action can be done both unconsciously...
Designing the Mundane, Live Your Light, Chickens Unite! [ENG]
May 18, 2016 05:30 - 15 minutes - 17.4 MBCollin Steinmetz of the Ilumi lighting company, www.ilumi.com, discusses with Cassini Nazir of the ArtSciLab at UT Dallas the disruptive technologies in the lighting industry. Ilumi uses the motto “Live Your Light” to make the point that we underestimate the impact of lighting design on individuals. Ilumi sells a number of products for consumers and companies that allows individuals to tailor their lighting environment to their own specific biological rhythms and reactions to light. Cassini ...
"Molding the Signifier", as seen by the artist, Ivor Diosi
May 17, 2016 04:30 - 23 minutes - 53 MBEnregistré par Annick Bureaud le 20 novembre 2015 à Prague dans le cadre du projet Trust Me, I'm An Artist [http://olats.org/trustme/trustme.php] Jingles et habillage sonore Jean-Yves Leloup, musiques Carl Harms, David James Elliott "The Wire", Sergey Lopoukha "Lull" (Universal Production Music Publishing), Stefanski "Last Light Lament" (Atmos Production Music/UNIPPM) and extracts of Molding the Signifier sound track. Montage : Thibaud Marty. The artist Ivor Diosi discusses his biocybernetic...
Shipping Dirt from the Moon with Ken Murphy and Judge John Marshall [ENG]
May 15, 2016 05:30 - 15 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this podcast Roger Malina discusses space with Ken Murphy and Judge John Marshall. Ken Murphy explains cislunar space and the advancements that will come with progression inside cislunar space. Ken Murphy and Judge John Marshall also discuss the legal and beneficial aspects of shipping moon dirt to Earth for agricultural advancements.
The Lumen Life - Reexamining the Relationship Between People and Lighting [ENG]
May 13, 2016 05:30 - 16 minutes - 18.4 MBLight is a powerful force that often seems to fall into the background of our day-to-day lives. It tells us when to wake and when to sleep. It creates atmosphere and mood. It gives focus and function. It entertains and envelops. So why is control of lighting normally limited to on and off? As both the LED lighting and the connect home industries continue to see exponential growth, we find it increasingly important to examine how people interact with light, how light interacts with them, and ...
A Theater of Cruelty [ENG]
May 11, 2016 05:30 - 19 minutes - 22.4 MBConsidered as restaured behaviors or even as living reliquaries, it is suggested that bioart works can be approached from the standpoint of performance studies. Bioartist Ionat Zurr talks about her use and understanding of performance/performativity as a way to create ritual experiences and enabling symbolic connections. The podcast addresses the concept of cruelty with regards to the aesthetics of care and disappointment. http://lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/tca/
"Molding the Signifier", as seen by the curator, Ondrej Cakl
May 10, 2016 04:30 - 12 minutes - 28.1 MBEnregistré par Annick Bureaud le 20 novembre 2015 à Prague dans le cadre du projet Trust Me, I'm An Artist [http://olats.org/trustme/trustme.php] Jingles et habillage sonore Jean-Yves Leloup, musiques Carl Harms, David James Elliott "The Wire", Sergey Lopoukha "Lull" (Universal Production Music Publishing), Stefanski "Last Light Lament" (Atmos Production Music/UNIPPM). Montage : Thibaud Marty. The curator Ondrej Cakl discusses his approach to the biocybernetic installation Molding the Signif...
Crushing Conventions: Nomad Evolution [ENG]
April 25, 2016 05:30 - 16 minutes - 18.4 MBUrvi Bhandari, Partner and Chief Connections Officer for Crush Industries, discusses the new forms of professional nomadism emerging. She discusses how the JUNE project is seeking to address the professional needs of retired elders, but also ideas for floating cities and other new social organisations that will emerge over the coming century given the changing demographics, professional career paths and the needs of personal life styles. The discussion is with Roger Malina.
Scales of Life - in Art [ENG]
April 22, 2016 05:30 - 15 minutes - 17.9 MBExtending our discussion on biolabor to the field of synthetic biology, Ionat Zurr addresses the application of engineering principles to life. She also reflects upon her role as both an artist and researcher that makes use of technology to create symbolic gestures. The episode ends with comments on the scalability of the living and the links between biological and conceptual arts. http://lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/tca/
Anahtar Sözcükler'e başlarken [TR]
April 20, 2016 05:30 - 13 minutes - 15.6 MBAnahtar Sözcükler'in ilk programı, serinin genel çerçevesi ve ilerleyen yayınlarda ele alınacak konuların zeminine hakkında. Anahtar Sözcükler ekibinden Altuğ Akın, Hasan Cenk Dereli ve Sarphan Uzunoğlu seriye ve Anahtar Sözcükler'e yaklaşımlarını tartışıyorlar.
The New Afronaut
April 13, 2016 04:30 - 18 minutes - 20.6 MBIn Christina de Middel's website, one can read the following: "In 1964 a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. His plan was to use an aluminium rocket to put a woman, two cats and a missionary into Space". Unfortunately the project never came to fruition but the expression, coined by Makuka, has been adopted in space culture. This podcast is an interview of Mandla Maseko, the first black African to travel into space, by Yv...
A 9 Year Old Dreams of Space
April 13, 2016 04:30 - 15 minutes - 18.3 MBNine year old Jack T. Robertson shares his dreams of traveling into space... to the outer planets and beyond. in a video produced by Michael Ricciardi. For this Yuri's Night podcast, Michael Ricciardi recollect memories of his experiences with space, art, and how it has impacted his life in discussion with Roger Malina.
[FA]نمایشنامه ی خانه/ Theatrical Performance “Home”
April 06, 2016 18:35 - 17 minutes - 19.9 MBThis podcast is a conversation with contemporary Iranian Director Kiamoars Moradi regarding his recent theatrical performance “Home” here in Dallas, Texas. As a professional theater director, Kiomars Moradi deploys the magical realism genre in which magical elements blend with well-known contemporary issues of Iran to allow a deeper understanding of the complex realities of the Iranian society, a society caught between modernity, tradition and revolutionary values. The magical realism genre ...
When Do Scientists Get Time to Think? [ENG]
April 06, 2016 18:22 - 19 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this podcast Roger Malina talks with David McPhail about his work and research. David McPhail's work focuses on material analysis and experimentation on that material with its environment. Also discussed is difficulties and powers of the many different collaborations that occur within this field of research.
FUQ All Genders All Genres [ENG]
March 30, 2016 08:27 - 13 minutes - 15.4 MBAlex Garcia Topete announces the launch of The Feminist United Quartely (FUQ), an online publication featuring all literature and art addressing feminism and gender equality. Rolling call for contributions is open at www.the-fuq.com.
Journalism's View on Fracking [ENG]
March 30, 2016 06:56 - 18 minutes - 20.6 MBRoger Malina discusses with Amelia Jaycen and Bobby Nash fracking from a journalistic view point. This discussion views fracking from journalistic view points such as academic articles, internet based medias, and documentary styled art forms.
Mechanisms and Abstractions of Life [ENG]
March 28, 2016 07:01 - 15 minutes - 17.8 MBDrawing upon two of their most recent works, The Mechanism of Life - after Stephane Leduc (2013) and Futile Labor (2015), artist Ionat Zurr discusses our perceptions of life and talks about the processes that lead her with the Tissue Culture & Art Project to create semi-living art and our evolving relationship to labor. http://lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/tca/
Insight into the Sonification Projects at the ArtSciLab [ENG]
March 25, 2016 20:36 - 19 minutes - 22 MBAnvit Srivastav and Shruthi Ayloo, ArtSciLab alumni, talk about Sonification projects being developed in the ArtSciLab and discuss the state of sonification technologies for the web. https://www.utdallas.edu/news/2016/2/12-31902_Collaborative-Minds-Bringing-Sounds-to-Brain-Data-_story-wide.html
Aesthetics of Complexity: The Distopias of Scale [ENG]
March 18, 2016 05:30 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBRoger Malina and long time friend Meredith Tromble discuss what she calls the "aesthetics of complexity." Roger and Meredith talk about what people desire, realism in art, and collective identity in this intellectually engaging podcast. Meredith also shares her workings with Dream Vortex.
Roots of Curiosity: a Neuroscientist in a Science-Art Project [ENG]
March 17, 2016 08:26 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBWhat are the similarities of an artistic vs a scientific stage? What can scientists gain by working with artists? Neuroscientist and designer Gil Costa tell us about his experience as a participant in the science-art project "Roots of Curiosity".
STEAM: Bespoke Chicken or Curated Brisket? [ENG]
March 15, 2016 03:21 - 20 minutes - 22.9 MBRobert Fee, Paul Fishwick and Roger Malina discuss the current discussion on the need to integrate art and design into science and engineering, STEM to STEAM. In particular the different ways that design is understood , from component design to context design. They can teach design using different approaches from problem, project, object, and topic approaches, but that university curricula are often designed backwards with the integrative approaches only occurring later in the syllabus. The ...
Being a Young Designer in Cairo [ENG]
March 11, 2016 06:30 - 20 minutes - 23.2 MBNora Abushadi is a talented designer who has been developing several projects touching, for example, upon the implementation of a multi-sensorial dining experience in Cairo and a speculative design for costume and stage designers, or even the destruction of literary culture by islamic extremists. Nora is a Virtual Africa Fellowship and has been awarded the Creative Disturbance Grants intended for international students. http://creativedisturbance.org/2015/12/creative-disturbance-fellowship-...
Life is a Long Game of Chess [ENG]
March 09, 2016 06:30 - 16 minutes - 19.1 MBPaul Fishwick discusses with Zurabi Javakhadze and James Stallings the effects chess can have on life. They also discuss the differences that can occur between chess based programs and methods of playing chess. https://www.utdallas.edu/chess/
A Glance into the ArtSciLab with Anvit Srivastav [ENG]
March 08, 2016 06:30 - 11 minutes - 13.2 MBAnvit Srivastav, ArtSciLab labber alum, discusses working on projects in the ArtSciLab including Creative Disturbance and sound visualization, as well as his thoughts and plans for the future in the field of web development.
Art-Act: une écriture du désastre [FR]
March 07, 2016 06:30 - 21 minutes - 24.6 MBArt-Act est une entité binaire, constituée de Gaspard et Sandra Bébié-Valérian, qui utilise les moyens de l’art pour une «invention du quotidien», se détacher des normes, pour une politique de la récupération et du retournement. Dans ce podcast, le duo livre des clés de lecture du projet "What is Rising" qui a donné lieu à un séjour de résidence à Central Trak (Dallas) soutenu par l'Institut Culturel Français et le programme d'Art et technologie de UT Dallas. La performance-installation trai...
De l’amitié Compromettante, avec Dominique Lestel 2/2 [FR]
March 04, 2016 06:30 - 11 minutes - 13.1 MBQu’est-ce qu’un rapport amical? Quelle relation existe t-il entre l’oeuvre d’art et l’artiste? Qu’est-ce qu’être vivant? Dans cette deuxième partie d’entretien, Dominique Lestel questionne la validité des modèles biologistes et les critères qui permettent de distinguer le vivant du non-vivant. Les artistes sont ceux qui peuvent, à ses yeux, tenter des expériences particulières et ainsi mettre en oeuvre des stratégies d’élargissement de la sphère du vivant. Reste le problème du langage et des...
Disorienting Procedures: Teaching Consciousness through Art Science Practice [ENG]
March 02, 2016 06:30 - 14 minutes - 16.1 MBEllen Levy discusses her work bridging the arts and the study of consciousness with Roger Malina. Levy argues that artists are experts and developing disorienting procedures which allow them to manipulate perception and attention. Artists seem to have particular skills at simultaneously being aware of foregrounds and backgrounds. She discusses a number of artworks that illustrate embodied cognition. The ideas in this podcast are part of the work for Ellen's Course at the New School on Consci...
De l’amitié Compromettante, avec Dominique Lestel 1/2 [FR]
March 01, 2016 06:30 - 9 minutes - 10.8 MBPour Dominique Lestel, il est urgent de penser le non-humain car être humain c’est, selon lui, entretenir une certaine proximité avec celui-ci. A l’occasion de l’ouverture de “DeMonstrable” (Perth, 2015), une exposition qui interroge notre habilité à intervenir sur le vivant à travers des expériences artistiques et scientifiques réalisées notamment depuis la création de la souris Vacanti, Dominique Lestel partage avec nous sa vision des processus amicaux à l’oeuvre en art et au sein du (non)...
Fracking an Academic and Humane Look at the Pros and Cons [ENG]
February 29, 2016 16:45 - 22 minutes - 25.7 MBIn this podcast Yvan Tina discusses with Amelia Jaycen, Gaspard and Sandra Bébié-Valérian about fracking. Fracking is hydraulic fracturing where you inject liquid at high pressure into the ground to fracture/cut the rock. They discuss both the academic ends of fracking as well as the human and political ends.
Announcing an Afrofuturism Podcast Series [ENG]
February 26, 2016 06:30 - 22 minutes - 25.2 MBTobias Van Veen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montreal who wrote his dissertation on Afrofuturism and the interplay of chronopolitics, concept-techniques and myth-science. In this introductory podcast, we touch upon the history of Afrofuturism in art, performance, music and literature and its relationship with time, space, science-fiction and issues of race.
Roots of Curiosity: Neuroscientists in a Science-Art Project [ENG]
February 24, 2016 06:30 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBIs it possible to create an object that is both artistic and scientific? Neuroscientists Maria and Ana discuss their experience as participants in the science-arts project "Roots of Curiosity". They paired with artists to create a "symbiotic" piece and tell us about their challenges and motivations. http://neuro.fchampalimaud.org/en/news/162/
When the Mind is the Medium; On the New Connections between Art and Neuroscience [ENG]
February 23, 2016 06:30 - 14 minutes - 16.5 MBEllen Levy discusses the burgeoning work at the nexus between the arts and neurosciences today. There is a renewed interest in how artists can provide outlooks insights and new approaches for cognitive and neuroscientists. and recognises the inadequacies of contemporary science to understand subjective experience, qualia and consciousness . She notes that some qualia can now be measured; her discussant Roger Malina, her discussant, jokes that this is the first time he has heard an artist com...
UX Professional: Year One [ENG]
February 12, 2016 06:30 - 21 minutes - 25.1 MBJayneil Dalal and Art Sanchez discuss their transition into the user experience field and their encounters with politics, portfolios and pixels. Their panel talk at the Big Design Conference 2015 was moderated by Adam Polansky and included Adrienne Guillory and Sophia Siragusa. http://bigdesignevents.com/
Roots of Curiosity: The Neuroscientist Gil and the Artist Tiago [ENG]
February 11, 2016 13:37 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBNeuroscientist Gil and Artist Tiago discuss working together and creating a symbiotic object during the project Roots of Curiosity, and how they created their performative art-science peice
Joining Contact Improvisation and Neuroscience to Understand Social Decision-making [ENG]
February 08, 2016 15:40 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBIn this podcast, Rita Venturini describes her idea for a project inspired by her comnined experience as a contact improvisation dancer and as a neurocientist. She wants to understand how what you think about others can biase your decisions in social contexts.
Every "Femgineer" has a Story [ENG]
February 05, 2016 06:30 - 13 minutes - 15.4 MBDr. Matthew Brown, Dr. Heather Hayenga, and Eun Ah Lee talk about Femgineers.
Raízes da Curiosidade: Tempo de Ciência e Arte, à Conversa com Madalena Wallenstein, a Curadora do Projecto [PT]
February 03, 2016 06:30 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBNeste podcast, Madalena Wallenstein dá a sua visão sobre o projeto de arte e ciência “Raízes da Curiosidade: Tempo de Ciência e Arte” e fala sobre o culminar do ciclo com o lançamento de um livro onde os intervenientes (duplas cientista-artista, criadores da ideia original, diretores artísticos e curadora) refletem sobre o processo de criação. http://ccbfabricadasartes.blogspot.pt/2015/11/raizes-da-curiosidade-tempo-de-ciencia.html
Prosthetics Organs and Wearable Art [ENG]
February 01, 2016 06:30 - 18 minutes - 20.6 MBDrawing on the work of Neri Oxman with her use of biomaterials and 3d printing for the design exploration Mushtari, and considering the popular examples of Henri Damon and Oscar Pistorius, Laini Burton investigates the use of prosthetic organs as wearable art in fashion industry and biodesign. From cosmetic surgery and extreme body modification to the design of astrobiological artefacts that could host life, she questions the agentic capacity of synthetic biology in our perception of livenes...
Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis, as Seen by the Curator, meeting with Jurij Krpan [ENG]
January 29, 2016 06:30 - 19 minutes - 44.8 MBThe curator Jurij Krpan discusses his approach, thinking and activities as Director of the Kapelica Galeriaj with a focus on Špela Petrič's performance Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis that the artist created in Ljubljana on September 10th-11th 2015 as part of Trust Me, I'm An Artist, an EU funded project that is exploring ethical issues in art that engage with biotechnology and living organisms. This podcast is linked to the one with Špela Petrič discussing the same performance f...
The Willful Marionette [ENG]
January 27, 2016 06:30 - 15 minutes - 17.4 MBA talk between artists, Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault and Kazjon Grace, Assistant Research Professor at UNC Charlotte. Moderated by Stephanie Grace, an Interaction Designer at Bloomberg in NY. The discussion will relate to a recent work just completed by the artists, an interactive marionette, and how it relates to art, technology and artificial intelligence. https://vimeo.com/108598429
Starbeasts: A Bio-Fiction Tour [ENG]
January 25, 2016 17:25 - 19 minutes - 22.4 MBBio-Fiction is an art-science and film festival that explores the social, cultural and environmental ramifications of synthetic biology. Markus Schmidt, its founder, and Georg Tremmel, a Tokyo-based artist from Austria, are moving it for the first time in Japan. This edition follows a previous workshop (organized and produced by the Bioartsociety) that focused on the topic of exo/xenobiology. http://bio-fiction.com/2014/#home http://bioartsociety.fi/making_life/
Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis, as Seen by the Artist, meeting with Špela Petrič [ENG]
January 22, 2016 06:30 - 15 minutes - 34.7 MBThe artist Špela Petrič discusses her performance Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis that she created in Ljubljana on September 10th-11th 2015 as part of Trust Me, I'm An Artist, an EU funded project that is exploring ethical issues in art that engage with biotechnology. This podcast is linked to the one with Jurij Krpan who discusses the same performance from the point of view of the curator. Enregistré par Annick Bureaud le 12 septembre 2015 à Ljubljana dans le cadre du projet Tru...
L'art du Microbiome [FR]
January 19, 2016 10:30 - 23 minutes - 27 MBLe microbiome (ou microbiote) désigne l’ensemble des microorganismes qui vivent sur et à l’interieur de nos corps. Cet ensemble constitue un microfilm que l’on trouve chez tous les êtres vivants et dans tous les milieux. Qu’est-ce que cela nous apprend t-il sur l’individu et la notion d’espèce ? Est-il possible de se servir de ce matériel génétique pour créer des oeuvres ? Entre performance et recherche scientifique, l’artiste-chercheur François-Joseph Lapointe développe une pratique expérim...
A Place for Women Engineers [ENG]
January 14, 2016 06:30 - 13 minutes - 14.9 MBEun Ah Lee and Roger Malina talk about how interesting and, at the same time, how terrifying it could be to make the first step to do something new. Starting a new channel "Femgineers" is such a step to build a place for women engineers.
Operational Aliveness with Stelarc
January 13, 2016 06:30 - 10 minutes - 12.3 MBStelarc comments the various degrees of aliveness running through his work from his recent robotic choreography (Propel, 2015) which combines the automated and the improvised. In reflecting upon the NeoLife conference opening exhibition Futile Labor (I. Zurr, O. Catts, C. Salter, D. Wards) that examined shifting perceptions of life through motion and agency, Stelarc offers elements of response to the very question of what minimum vocabulary of behavior or movement is needed to generate a sen...