Media Evolution
194 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago -Media Evolution is a membership organization that help media industries to innovate and grow.
The videos in this podcast are generated at our annual conference The Conference and lectures we arrange throughout the year.
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Jordi Roca – Senses and Sensibilities
August 29, 2022 09:14 - 35 minutes - 135 MB Video“Why not create a dish from the smell of old book?” “The most beautiful idea is to be able to eat a song.” Senses can evoke memories. Jordi Roca explores the connection and interaction between senses, childhood memories, smell and taste. Inspired by Marcel Proust and his ‘In Search of Lost Time’, Jordi shares about his work evoking memories through smell, taste and texture: how he created desserts inspired by perfumes by deconstructing each perfume to create an aroma leading to him making ...
Liam Young – Senses and Sensibilities
August 29, 2022 09:14 - 40 minutes - 207 MB Video“Fiction is an extraordinary shared language.” Fiction is a product of culture but it also produces culture: it impacts how we see the world. The line between fiction and reality is a thin one, and the urban space is one where our imaginaries are often played out. Through his piece ‘The Planet City’, Liam Young takes us on a cinematic drift through imaginary worlds: one fictional, one we are currently living in. What if we stepped back, made room and let global wilderness return? How do th...
Matt Webb – How to use a computer
August 29, 2022 09:13 - 16 minutes - 64.5 MB Video“Search is not a query. It’s always a conversation. You’re not building a search engine - you’re building a tool for users to embark on a knowledge quest.” Matt Webb explores how different types of common search mechanisms online work and the type of results they return. He goes through a history of more analogue search systems to give context to the search algorithms we all use today. Matt frames search as not being a query but rather a conversation where people are using the search tool ...
Hillary Juma – How to use a computer
August 29, 2022 09:13 - 14 minutes - 42 MB Video“How will we garden the future of our abilities to speak with computers?” Hillary Juma spoke about how each of us has a different experience interacting with voice recognition systems. The challenges we face in our interactions with voice recognition software differ significantly, for example some accents aren’t understood by systems as well as others because they were not included in training data sets. Being diagnosed with dyslexia prompted Hillary to interact more with the voice-to-te...
Maya Man – How to use a computer
August 29, 2022 09:13 - 17 minutes - 69.3 MB Video“My entire life my sense of self has been mediated by a computer screen.” Growing up, Maya Man has always been fascinated with the presentation of self and the meaning of true authenticity in different contexts. Her sense of self has always been mediated by a computer screen, leading her to experiment with the possibilities this presented but also feel that everything she was doing was some form of performance for a third person audience. In her recent work, she has subverted the tone of v...
Q&A – How to use a computer
August 29, 2022 09:12 - 1 minute - 8.79 MB VideoQ&A for the session How to use a computer featuring Matt Webb, Hilary Juma and Maya Man
Carl Benedikt Frey – Work – what science says
August 29, 2022 09:10 - 15 minutes - 109 MB Video“Occupations paying less than 20 dollars per hour are most at risk to be replaced by technology.” How do you heighten your chances of making money for rent in the future? Carl Benedikt Frey suggests creativity, social intelligence and the abilities to perceive and manipulate will be central skills. These particular skills are still proving hard to automate through Artificial Intelligence. So how do we build and strengthen these skills? Does our education system and social environments supp...
Calle Rosengren – Work – what science says
August 29, 2022 09:09 - 16 minutes - 125 MB Video“Covid-19 has done more for the digitalisation of organisations than the COO and CEO.” During their online meeting, Calle Rosengren’s colleague from Lund University received four missed calls from her son. There must have been a fire in his room. She knocked on his door. Nah, no fire. He wanted to know whether he could eat the last semla. How do we find healthy digital boundaries and a chance to focus in these new hybrid working days? Rosengren’s research suggests that it’s worth looking...
Rita Fontinha – Work – what science says
August 29, 2022 09:09 - 14 minutes - 91.9 MB Video“People wish to work less, but also to have more control over their time.” How do we free humanity up to choose meaningful work? Is value actually connected to working many hours? Who defines what is ‘productive’? Who defines what is valuable? Valuable for who? Do we produce more value on our days off? What do we do to each other, when some people have control over other people’s chance to choose the most meaningful way to spend moments, hours and lives? Rita Fontinha suggests a progres...
Q&A Work – What Science Says
August 29, 2022 09:08 - 7 minutes - 50.8 MB VideoQ&A with Calle Rosengren (Lund University), Carl Benedikt Frey (Oxford University) and Rita Fontinha (Henley Business School, University of Reading) during The Conference 2022.
Alice Rawsthorn – Design Emergency
August 29, 2022 09:08 - 41 minutes - 198 MB Video“Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to our advantage. Design has done this long before word has been invented to describe it.” How can we approach an everyday challenge as a design project? How can people use design for activism? What is the potential of design as a tool for societal change? How can people working as professional designers work with all of us as co-designers of the future? In her optimistic keynote session, Alice Raw...
Grace Boyle – Spatial Computing
August 29, 2022 09:07 - 19 minutes - 77.9 MB Video“There are challenges when you’re trying to work in a multisensory medium in that the tools and the frameworks for this don’t really exist so we’ve had to create a lot of them ourselves along the way.” Grace Boyle explains the vast myriad of senses that humans possess beyond the ‘big five senses’. She speaks about the concept of embodied cognition, whereby the human body and not only the brain is involved in our perceptions and thought processes. She goes on to explore digital realities cre...
Lucia Tahan – Spatial Computing
August 29, 2022 09:06 - 18 minutes - 62.5 MB Video“There seems to be a great inspiration that's being taken by AR artists today from the world of surrealism and its symbolism and aesthetic language.” Alongside her work at Meta’s Spark AR Studio, Lucia Tahan has pursued a range of AR experiments. These include using AR to distort the world around us in interesting ways and exploring how AR may shape our future. She discusses the language of AR, “haunted realism”, and the interplay between AR filters and what is being created in real life. ...
Bas van de Poel – Spatial Computing
August 29, 2022 09:06 - 22 minutes - 85.3 MB Video“At some point we might not refer to augmented reality anymore but instead just refer to reality.” Bas van de Poel dives into the different definitions of the metaverse that exist today and why he believes the next big paradigm will be spatial computing, where the environment becomes the interface. He details the transition of AR from being used a lot for entertainment to becoming more utilitarian in its application. Bas shows examples of projects at the forefront of AR development, includ...
Q&A – Spatial Computing
August 29, 2022 09:05 - 8 minutes - 27 MB VideoQ&A for the session Spatial Computing featuring Grace Boyle, Lucia Tahan and Bas van de Poel.
Kristina Höök – Being well – body and place
August 29, 2022 09:04 - 20 minutes - 120 MB Video“The tools we have change us fundamentally. They change our feelings and our cultures.” Have you wondered why video conferencing still sucks? Because we are not just visual and auditory beings. The movements of our body are linked to our emotional processes. The tools we use impact our muscles, nervous systems, feelings, experiences and even our culture. Kristina Höök works at the Royal Institute of Technology where she studies Soma design, aesthetic and ethical wellness. Soma focuses on t...
Ewa Westermark – Being well – body and place
August 29, 2022 09:04 - 21 minutes - 126 MB Video“Spaces change people's behaviour.” Urban Misery or Urban Joy - a matter of place The context we find ourselves in influences us as human beings. It influences our choices. It influences how we feel. We are humans that are sensitive beings and social animals. Meeting other people is the essence of the city. How can the environment help us get out and meet other people rather than hinder us? And how is urban joy a matter of the everyday place? Ewa Westermark explores what it is like to...
Q&A Being well – body and place
August 29, 2022 09:04 - 11 minutes - 72.8 MB VideoQ&A with Kristina Höök and Ewa Westermark during The Conference 2022.
What is a good life?
August 29, 2022 09:03 - 43 minutes - 174 MB Video“By the age of 25 there’s no atom in your body that you were born with. It’s all food. So some of us are just pot noodles.” Carolyn Steel is of the belief that we live in a world shaped by food and everything ultimately comes back to food. She takes us on a journey back through time, looking at how humans used to interact with food in the days of hunting and gathering all the way through to our relationship with food today. Looking at industrialisation and its promises to solve the problem...
Tega Brain – The environment is not a system
August 29, 2022 09:03 - 47 minutes - 185 MB Video“It can be dangerous to assume that more data just equals more reality.” "Can AI open up new possibilities for thinking about intelligence and automation?" Could machine learning help us deal with vast amounts of data beyond human comprehension? Can these techniques produce a more robust representation of reality free of human judgement? Assistant professor at NYU, Artist and Environmental Engineer Tega Brain posed these crucial inquiries during The Conference 2022. Tega explored critical...
Victor Galaz – Systems thinking as a method
August 29, 2022 09:03 - 14 minutes - 81.9 MB Video“Connection means synergy. It’s never too late. Quantum social change is possible.” Victor Galaz explains the planetary boundaries model, and how exceeding these boundaries will affect us. He is emphasising how the effect of the changing climate will bring rising inequalities. Today for some of the world population the future is already here and they are living in the consequences of global warming, with 1,5 degrees of warming. In his talk Victor is stressing the fact that we are in great ...
Karol Gobczyński – Systems thinking as a method
August 29, 2022 09:02 - 10 minutes - 70.8 MB Video“When we all act, we are reinforcing each other to act.” “This planet is our only home - not the moon, not Mars.” It is more important than ever to guide the policymakers on how to reduce emissions. To avoid the worst, we have to halve our emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero in 2050. We need to understand our own footprint, and share where we struggle. By having a common goal we are brought together - it’s about making the switch to renewable energy, making transportation systems zero-e...
Tessa van Soest – Systems thinking as a method
August 29, 2022 09:02 - 13 minutes - 79.6 MB Video“Be the best FOR the world, not IN the world.” What can system change look like from a business perspective; the goal of transforming to a regenerative economic system? Start measuring what matters. The Executive Director of B Lab Tessa van Soest is explaining what B-corp certification is about, how it all started, while sharing examples of B-corp certified companies. The vision is to build a more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economic system for all people and the planet. Certi...
Q&A – Systems thinking as a method
August 29, 2022 09:00 - 17 minutes - 110 MB VideoQ&A with Victor Galaz, Karol Gobczynski and Tessa van Soest.
Susanne Wedlich – (Natural) Intelligence
August 29, 2022 08:58 - 27 minutes - 84.3 MB Video“Oceans - I am sorry to say this - are covered from top to bottom in slime.” Life Is Slimey. What is slime? You wonder about that often, don’t you? Susanne Wedlich, the author of the book “Slime - A Natural History” does, too. If you ever write a book that several booksellers refuse to put on the shelves in sheer disgust, you will know that you’re onto something. Inspired by love stories of snails, Susanne became an expert on slime. Have you realised how much slime is all around us? With...
Christina Agapakis – (Natural) Intelligence
August 29, 2022 08:53 - 22 minutes - 92.3 MB Video"The future is synthetic." How do you feel about synthetics? Are you thinking about a wildly sticky, static electric, polyester shirt right now? Many of us have negative connotations of synthetics as something unnatural, artificial and based on ancient fossil fueled techniques. The history of science up until now has placed nature by definition as separate and below humans, thereby creating a division between nature and technology. Christina Agapakis from Gingko Bioworks introduces in he...
Q&A – (Natural) Intelligence
August 29, 2022 08:53 - 6 minutes - 23.5 MB VideoQ&A for the session (Natural) Intelligence featuring Susanne Wedlich and Christina Agapakis.
Darja Isaksson – How to organise innovation
August 29, 2022 08:52 - 21 minutes - 135 MB Video“Uncertainty is scary but also incredibly amazing.” Nowadays, we can often feel like everyone is innovating only for the sake of innovation. In this talk, Darja Isaksson looks beyond the buzzword and explores how we might navigate uncertainty and complexity to create sustainable organisations. Sweden has for a long time been a prime example of an innovative country. The old paradigm that this innovation model is built upon leans on three pillars: culture (characterised by boldness, openn...
Vaughn Tan – How to organise innovation
August 29, 2022 08:51 - 16 minutes - 98.1 MB Video“Confusing risk and uncertainty can be very expensive and unpleasant.” “Organisations shaped by a risk mindset are naturally resistant to change.” Organisations that want to remain innovative now and in the future need an uncertainty mindset according to Vaughn Tan. Most organisations are built on the conventional model of risk-taking that has clearly defined job roles, goals and milestones. Unfortunately, this model also makes it hard for organisations to learn, change and adapt which is...
Q&A – How to organise innovation
August 29, 2022 08:51 - 13 minutes - 85.4 MB VideoQ&A with Vaughn Tan (University Colledge London's School of Management) and Darja Isaksson (Vinnova).
Simone Rebaudengo – (Artificial) Intelligence
August 29, 2022 08:50 - 17 minutes - 54.9 MB Video“Is 65% spoon-ness a spoon?” “Something truly smart might rather do something unexpected.” Simone Rebaudengo is exploring the way we are living and interacting with networked and autonomous things. In this talk he is showing us some of those experiments and explorations, challenging the mainstream perception of AI. He is humourising and democratising the understanding of, and relations to artificial (or other) intelligences. oio.studio, or “The other intelligences operation” explore dif...
Nick Seaver – (Artificial) Intelligence
August 29, 2022 08:50 - 15 minutes - 52.7 MB Video“Sticky websites are traps designed to capture people.” Artisanal traps have two faces: where hunter and prey, two entities, meet. Computers are a kind of human trap. Can we see the image of the hunter and the prey in these computer-traps in the same way as the anthropologic traps? The interface is in fact the meeting point in between worlds. Engagement is in the very structure of how our technical products work. This means that reimagining the relations between designers, coders, and use...
Maya Indira Ganesh – (Artificial) Intelligence
August 29, 2022 08:50 - 23 minutes - 71.4 MB Video“Lager networks might have a slight conscious.” Maya Indira Ganesh is a cultural scientist who explores the poetics and policies of AI and metaphors, asking the question what do we mean when we say AI? Language is metaphorical, bridging the gap between our feelings and the thing itself. Why are metaphors important in the language of AI? It allows us to understand and convey things that are complex. The person who controls the metaphors sets AI in motion, it lets us think about the future...
Q&A – (Artificial) Intelligence
August 29, 2022 08:49 - 6 minutes - 24.4 MB VideoQ&A for the session (Artificial) Intelligence featuring Simone Rebaudengo (oio.studio), Nick Seaver (Tufts University) and Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)
Joanne McNeil – Stories that shape the future
August 29, 2022 08:49 - 21 minutes - 123 MB VideoDo you want a robot president? Let’s talk about the potential power of science-fiction stories. Have you read Dune? Watched Bladerunner? How about the Parable of the Sower? The Earthsea series? Cultural references as found in science-fiction novels have a huge impact on what the tech in the coming years might look and feel like. But most of all, on our collective expectations and imagination of a possible future. To exemplify this, Joanna McNeil (author of Lurking: How a Person Became a Us...
Adrian Hon – Stories that shape the future
August 29, 2022 08:49 - 19 minutes - 107 MB VideoConsider an object near you right now. How big is it? How does it feel? Who made the object? How are people using it in unexpected ways? How does it end? Are you up for trying another experiment? Write about the object. Writing about objects forces you to be specific - it makes you think about a specific place, time, people and context of its use, thus it makes you think about the past, present and future of this object. A History of the Future in 100 Objects is a fictitious novel set in ...
Q&A Stories that shape the future
August 29, 2022 08:48 - 13 minutes - 78.4 MB VideoQ&A with Joanne McNeil (Author) and Adrian Hon (Six to Start).
Mikkel Malmberg – Get together with Web3
August 29, 2022 08:48 - 12 minutes - 34.8 MB Video“With decentralised blockchains we get this thing back that we can actually own things on the internet - and I think that’s pretty neat.” If you’re at an early stage of learning about Web3, Mikkel Malmberg’s talk provides the perfect introduction. He recounts his initial contact with Web3 and how he started off being sceptical of the space. His talk takes us on a journey of his experiences and experiments in Web3. Mikkel charts the progression from Web1, to Web2, and then discusses the dif...
Penny Rafferty – Get together with Web3
August 29, 2022 08:47 - 17 minutes - 42.7 MB Video“What are the manifestos that we want to live under?” Penny Rafferty believes that technology should be social, collaborative, and emergent, prioritising culture over structures. She has been applying DAO thinking to issues in the art world in Berlin since 2018. This led to the emergence of the Black Swan DAO which has the goal of channelling resources from established institutions to cultural practitioners. In the context of cultural labour becoming increasingly precarious, the Black Swan...
Kyle McDonald – Get together with Web3
August 29, 2022 08:47 - 29 minutes - 97.8 MB Video“When tech moves fast and breaks things, who picks up the pieces after?” Kyle McDonald is an artist working with code who has done a lot of work researching the ecological impact of the Ethereum network. He shows the findings of this research which he has also published as an in-depth report. Kyle reflects on how the amount of energy consumption will drop significantly once Ethereum transitions from proof-of-stake to proof-of-work - two different methods of validating transactions on the b...
Q&A – Get together with Web3
August 29, 2022 08:47 - 13 minutes - 37.5 MB VideoQ&A for the session Get together with Web3 featuring Mikkel Malmberg, Penny Rafferty, Kyle McDonald
Johanna Koljonen – Closing remarks 2022
August 29, 2022 08:45 - 7 minutes - 27.2 MB VideoModerator Johanna Koljonen closes The Conference 2022.
Magnus Nilsson – Endings and new beginnings
August 29, 2022 08:39 - 51 minutes - 148 MB Video“The conflict between emotions and conscious rationality is at the core of what it means to be a human in the 21st century.“ The conflict between emotional and rational thinking is perhaps the greatest dilemma of the present. Magnus Nilsson encourages us to use the gift that is a conscious mind to investigate our subconscious, our emotions. Rationalising can be the delay, making us wait until a crucial point to make a decision. Because, if you really think about it - didn't you already kno...
Solar – Future energy
September 02, 2019 15:52 - 8 minutes - 42.6 MB VideoJonas Stojiljkovic Pedersen and Magnus Borgkvist Johansson. Malmö based instrumental duo Solar is a cosmic blend of postrock and John Carpenter flavoured influences where drums and synthesizers is the driving force. The expression is wide, from vast soundscapes with hypnotic arpeggios and expressive drums to dark, doom influenced tracks that seems to reflects a place where darkness has reigned since the beginning of time. Solar produces music in a high pace and keep exploring and widen the...
Dr. James Beacham – What's outside the universe?
August 30, 2019 16:54 - 59 minutes - 248 MB VideoDr. James Beacham is a particle physicist searching for answers to the biggest open questions of physics using the largest experiment ever, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He hunts for dark matter, gravitons, quantum black holes and dark photons as a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. He ended The Conference 2019 with a science class out of this world and a reminder of that to physics – we're all the same.
Jonas Hedman – Out of cash
August 28, 2019 17:22 - 12 minutes - 47.5 MB Video“What is money? In my meaning it’s the best innovation ever. It’s a trust system, we put more trust in money than we do in religion.” Jonas Hedman is Professor at the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School. His research interest concerns the digital transformation in the finance sector and includes topics such as cashless society, fintech revolution, payment ecosystems, payment innovations, open API and central bank digital currency. Money – such as coins, banknotes and...
Claire L. Evans – The pioneering grandmothers of the internet
August 28, 2019 17:22 - 57 minutes - 219 MB VideoAnyone who’s seen AMC’s series Halt and Catch Fire knows the importance of representation. Two out of four main characters are female tech pioneers in the early 80s. Claire L. Evans’ book Broadband traces the real story of women behind the solitary geniuses of history, who tend to be men. What if unique solutions and social networks like Microcosm or Echo (both created by women) had received the same attention and capital that e.g. the WWW got in the early 90s? In her talk Evans explores the...
Alina Bliumis – Most of us are
August 28, 2019 17:22 - 17 minutes - 44 MB VideoWho is the every day person? What is your identity? And more importantly, is there such a thing? A while ago, Alina Bliumis went out on a mission to find the answer. She searched the web and after diving into big chunks of data she found out that most of us are 28 years old, have black hair and brown eyes. She also found out that most people don't believe in global warming and that most of us owns a bed and a smartphone. By analyzing the numbers, we would now believe that we have the answer ...
Meghan O'Gieblyn – God in the machine
August 28, 2019 17:22 - 48 minutes - 117 MB VideoSci-fi and religion alike, have always been concerned with dilemmas we now associate with transhumanism. What does resurrection or immortal life feel like? Will you still be ”you”? The idea of mind uploading has been a prevalent feature in wildly imaginative series like Altered Carbon, but now we seem to be on the verge of realisation of similar technologies with Elon Musk’s Neuralink project. Essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn shares her story that begin as a devout Christian, later to become fascin...
Kris De Decker - Look back, move forward
August 28, 2019 17:22 - 24 minutes - 73.3 MB VideoJournalist Kris De Decker writes about low tech solutions to high tech problems. At The Conference 2019, Kris walked us through his solar powered website Low tech magazine and the design decisions required to make it work. Internet, and with it, the digital industries consumes enormous amounts of energy and as such, has a huge impact on the climate. To create a more sustainable online magazine, Kris and his team revisited old school techniques in web design.