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Episode 20: GUEST LIST (Natasha Stagg, Busta, Keller, LILINTERNET)

December 12, 2019 16:31 - 1 hour - 170 MB

Featuring New York-based writer NATASHA STAGG who, on the occasion of her new book "Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019" (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents), speaks to us about the myths and metadata of NYC's culture sector and the protocol for creative production in the 2010s. (w/ Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, @LILINTERNET) For more: https://natashastagg.com/ https://twitter.com/natasha_stagg https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sleeveless

Episode 20: GUEST LIST (Natasha Stagg)

December 12, 2019 16:31 - 1 hour - 170 MB

Featuring New York-based writer NATASHA STAGG who, on the occasion of her new book "Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019" (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents), speaks to us about the myths and metadata of NYC's culture sector and the protocol for creative production in the 2010s. (w/ Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, @LILINTERNET) For more: https://natashastagg.com/ https://twitter.com/natasha_stagg https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sleeveless

UNLOCKED // NM TopSoil EP 20: COLLECTIVE PARANOIA (w/ Bjarne Melgaard)

November 19, 2019 00:00 - 52 minutes - 96.7 MB

TopSoil is New Models' informal talk-core cast, which we create specifically for our Patreon community. For all NM TopSoil episodes & to join our Discord: https://patreon.com/newmodels ----- Norwegian artist BJARNE MELGAARD speaks to New Models about CULTURAL PRODUCTION, DESIRE, and the CHANGING THRESHOLDS of VICTIMHOOD and TRANSGRESSION. Also: BJARNE's ANTIVIVISECTION '80s, CARLY as KERN MODEL, and whether CRYSTAL METH is still the number one DRUG of CHOICE. Plus: PORNHUB, CHIHUAHUAS, DRUGS,...

NM GREENROOM Ep 1: STEVEN WARWICK (w/ Busta, @LILINTERNET)

November 04, 2019 00:00 - 34 minutes - 63.9 MB

The Berlin-based British artist https://soundcloud.com/stevenwarwick (ex-Heatsick)talks to New Models about the release of his 2019 album "MOI" (https://soundcloud.com/pan_hq). For full post (incl. video by Dacio Pinheiro): https://newmodels.io/proprietary/new-models-greenroom-steven-warwick-moi Note: this is the first episode of New Models GREENROOM, a series of short interviews featuring people in the NM sphere discussing their new and forthcoming work.

NM GREENROOM Ep 1: STEVEN WARWICK discusses "MOI"

November 04, 2019 00:00 - 34 minutes - 63.9 MB

The Berlin-based British artist https://soundcloud.com/stevenwarwick (ex-Heatsick)talks to New Models about the release of his 2019 album "MOI" (https://soundcloud.com/pan_hq). For full post (incl. video by Dacio Pinheiro): https://newmodels.io/proprietary/new-models-greenroom-steven-warwick-moi Note: this is the first episode of New Models GREENROOM, a series of short interviews featuring people in the NM sphere discussing their new and forthcoming work.

EP 20: GUEST LIST (Natasha Stagg)

October 31, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 170 MB

Featuring New York-based writer NATASHA STAGG who, on the occasion of her new book "Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019" (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents), speaks to us about the myths and metadata of NYC's culture sector and the protocol for creative production in the 2010s. (w/ Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, @LILINTERNET) For more: https://natashastagg.com/ https://twitter.com/natasha_stagg https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sleeveless

Episode 19: THE FLOURISHING (How to Dress Well, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

October 27, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 185 MB

Featuring LA-based musician and scholar TOM KRELL (aka @howtodresswell) who talks with us about the aesthetics of climate activism, the roll of the critic today, music as carrier signal for identity, the threshold for authenticity, the value of negativity, extraction and power -- let's just say it's a rich and sweeping conversation that offers tools for thinking through some of the big questions of our day and insight into the mind behind one of the past year's best albums "The Anteroom" (htt...

EP 19: THE FLOURISHING (How to Dress Well aka Tom Krell)

October 27, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 185 MB

Featuring LA-based musician and scholar TOM KRELL (aka @howtodresswell) who talks with us about the aesthetics of climate activism, the roll of the critic today, music as carrier signal for identity, the threshold for authenticity, the value of negativity, extraction and power -- let's just say it's a rich and sweeping conversation that offers tools for thinking through some of the big questions of our day and insight into the mind behind one of the past year's best albums "The Anteroom" (htt...

Episode 19: THE FLOURISHING (How to Dress Well aka Tom Krell)

October 27, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 185 MB

Featuring LA-based musician and scholar TOM KRELL (aka @howtodresswell) who talks with us about the aesthetics of climate activism, the roll of the critic today, music as carrier signal for identity, the threshold for authenticity, the value of negativity, extraction and power -- let's just say it's a rich and sweeping conversation that offers tools for thinking through some of the big questions of our day and insight into the mind behind one of the past year's best albums "The Anteroom" (htt...

UNLOCKED // NM TopSoil Ep 17: KOKOPELLI'S GIRLFRIEND

October 16, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutes - 129 MB

TopSoil is New Models' talk-core cast, which we create for our Patreon community. For all NM TopSoil episodes & to join our Discord: www.patreon.com/newmodels MASS QUEERING, CONCEPTRONICA, and TALES from the REAL LASCAUX. Plus DAN revisits BILL CLINTON's CIRCA-2000 statement on CHINA & the INTERNET. CARLY reports on KITSCH & CASTLES in the FRENCH DORDOGNE, and LILNET reads from his BABYBELT POLYCULE HUMYN FANFIC. Also: EUROPEAN ANTISEMITISM as AMERICAN EXPORT, WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION through C...

EP 18: YUNG MATRIX (Trevor McFedries)

October 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 158 MB

Featuring TREVOR McFEDRIES, co-founder of Brud, the LA-based transmedia studio behind a crew of digital-native influencer-avatars, including Lil Miquela, Blawko, and Bermuda. Also known as Yung Skeeter or DJ Skeet Skeet, Trevor came up via the music world, producing, directing, and DJ-ing for Katy Perry and other A-list acts. On this episode, we talk to Trevor about the fantasy of contemporary LA and marketing's ability to shape public consciousness in a highly polarized public sphere. For m...

Episode 18: YUNG MATRIX (Trevor McFedries)

October 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 158 MB

Featuring TREVOR McFEDRIES, co-founder of Brud, the LA-based transmedia studio behind a crew of digital-native influencer-avatars, including Lil Miquela, Blawko, and Bermuda. Also known as Yung Skeeter or DJ Skeet Skeet, Trevor came up via the music world, producing, directing, and DJ-ing for Katy Perry and other A-list acts. On this episode, we talk to Trevor about the fantasy of contemporary LA and marketing's ability to shape public consciousness in a highly polarized public sphere. For m...

Episode 18: YUNG MATRIX (Trevor McFedries, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

October 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 158 MB

Featuring TREVOR McFEDRIES, co-founder of Brud, the LA-based transmedia studio behind a crew of digital-native influencer-avatars, including Lil Miquela, Blawko, and Bermuda. Also known as Yung Skeeter or DJ Skeet Skeet, Trevor came up via the music world, producing, directing, and DJ-ing for Katy Perry and other A-list acts. On this episode, we talk to Trevor about the fantasy of contemporary LA and marketing's ability to shape public consciousness in a highly polarized public sphere. For m...

Episode 17: NONFOOD (Lucy Chinen & Sean Raspet)

August 29, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 144 MB

Founders of nonfood, Lucy Chinen & Sean Raspet discuss contemporary food supply chains and sustainable food futures, including the R&D of their own algae-based nonbar. Along the way, we address: monocultures, fear, skeuomorphic flavor, cellular agriculture, and the real cost of "all-natural." (w/ Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, @LILINTERNET) Visit nonfood: https://eatnonfood.com For more: http://lucychinen.com/ & http://seanraspet.org/

Episode 17: NONFOOD (Lucy Chinen, Sean Raspet, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

August 29, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 144 MB

Founders of nonfood, Lucy Chinen & Sean Raspet discuss contemporary food supply chains and sustainable food futures, including the R&D of their own algae-based nonbar. Along the way, we address: monocultures, fear, skeuomorphic flavor, cellular agriculture, and the real cost of "all-natural." (w/ Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, @LILINTERNET) Visit nonfood: https://eatnonfood.com For more: http://lucychinen.com/ & http://seanraspet.org/

EP 17: NONFOOD (Lucy Chinen & Sean Raspet)

August 29, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 144 MB

Founders of nonfood, Lucy Chinen & Sean Raspet discuss contemporary food supply chains and sustainable food futures, including the R&D of their own algae-based nonbar. Along the way, we address: monocultures, fear, skeuomorphic flavor, cellular agriculture, and the real cost of "all-natural." (w/ Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, @LILINTERNET) Visit nonfood: https://eatnonfood.com For more: http://lucychinen.com/ & http://seanraspet.org/

NM SPECIAL REPORT: BLACK SOCIALISTS launch DUAL POWER MAP (Z from BSA)

July 28, 2019 00:00 - 30 minutes - 69.6 MB

New Models speaks with Z, founder of Black Socialists of America (BSA) about the organization's recently launched DUAL POWER MAP: a critical tool for building a new economic order in America within the existing capitalist structure, starting with black worker-owned businesses and co-ops. (w/ @LILINTERNET & Caroline Busta) For more: blacksocialists.us/dual-power-map Follow BSA: @blacksocialists

Episode 16: E PLURIBUS ZUCK (Mat Dryhurst & Kei Kreutler)

July 15, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 197 MB

New Models speaks with MAT DRYHURST & KEI KREUTLER, two figures central to Berlin's diverse crypto scene, to unpack the possible impact of Facebook's Libra coin (provided it succeeds). From the Bitcoin villages of Switzerland to Libra as an arm of US foreign policy, this episode takes the coin's tagline at face value asking, _were_ everyone to be invited the the global economy... what would that look like, how would that actually be achieved, and what would the fall out be? (w/ Caroline Busta...

Episode 16: E PLURIBUS ZUCK (Mat Dryhurst, Kei Kreutler, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

July 15, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 197 MB

New Models speaks with MAT DRYHURST & KEI KREUTLER, two figures central to Berlin's diverse crypto scene, to unpack the possible impact of Facebook's Libra coin (provided it succeeds). From the Bitcoin villages of Switzerland to Libra as an arm of US foreign policy, this episode takes the coin's tagline at face value asking, _were_ everyone to be invited the the global economy... what would that look like, how would that actually be achieved, and what would the fall out be? (w/ Caroline Busta...

EP 16: E PLURIBUS ZUCK (Mat Dryhurst & Kei Kreutler)

July 15, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 197 MB

New Models speaks with MAT DRYHURST & KEI KREUTLER, two figures central to Berlin's diverse crypto scene, to unpack the possible impact of Facebook's Libra coin (provided it succeeds). From the Bitcoin villages of Switzerland to Libra as an arm of US foreign policy, this episode takes the coin's tagline at face value asking, _were_ everyone to be invited the the global economy... what would that look like, how would that actually be achieved, and what would the fall out be? (w/ Caroline Busta...

UNLOCKED // NM TopSoil Ep 9: REAL HOUSEWIVES of ELYSIUM (w/ Dean Kissick)

July 05, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 159 MB

TopSoil is New Models' loose, talk-core cast, which we create specifically for our Patreon community. For all NM TopSoil episodes & to join our Discord: https://www.patreon.com/newmodels Featuring the New York-based writer DEAN KISSICK, this episode delivers: PISS KINGPINS, BASEMENT DWELLER KANYE, and the POST-HIPPIE lineage of BEZOS’s THATCHERITE-EXPANSION into SPACE. Plus: DEAN speaks to the ridiculous extent of ART WORLD-ADJACENT CRIMINALITY, LILINTERNET cites GABBANA’s LAW, DAN goes long...

UNLOCKED // NM TopSoil Ep 9: REAL HOUSEWIVES of ELYSIUM (w/ DEAN KISSICK)

July 05, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 159 MB

TopSoil is New Models' loose, talk-core cast, which we create specifically for our Patreon community. For all NM TopSoil episodes & to join our Discord: https://www.patreon.com/newmodels Featuring the New York-based writer DEAN KISSICK, this episode delivers: PISS KINGPINS, BASEMENT DWELLER KANYE, and the POST-HIPPIE lineage of BEZOS’s THATCHERITE-EXPANSION into SPACE. Plus: DEAN speaks to the ridiculous extent of ART WORLD-ADJACENT CRIMINALITY, LILINTERNET cites GABBANA’s LAW, DAN goes long...

UNLOCKED: NM TopSoil Ep 9: REAL HOUSEWIVES of ELYSIUM (w/ DEAN KISSICK)

July 05, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 159 MB

TopSoil is New Models' loose, talk-core cast, which we create specifically for our Patreon community. For all NM TopSoil episodes & to join our Discord: https://www.patreon.com/newmodels Featuring the New York-based writer DEAN KISSICK, this episode delivers: PISS KINGPINS, BASEMENT DWELLER KANYE, and the POST-HIPPIE lineage of BEZOS’s THATCHERITE-EXPANSION into SPACE. Plus: DEAN speaks to the ridiculous extent of ART WORLD-ADJACENT CRIMINALITY, LILINTERNET cites GABBANA’s LAW, DAN goes long...

Episode 15: REMOTE PORT (Benjamin Bratton, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

June 18, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 159 MB

Feat. theorist and philosopher BENJAMIN H. BRATTON, this episode offers a high-gear, macroscopic mapping of Earth and its systems circa 2019 — incl. how notions of “the artificial” and “intelligence” differ across cultures; hemispheric zones of citizenship and exclusion in the age of AR; and a view of human consciousness as a geological phenomenon, a layer through which Earth's planetary system is coming to know itself. Plus much, much more. Bratton, whose work spans philosophy, art, design, ...

EP 15: REMOTE PORT (Benjamin Bratton)

June 18, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 159 MB

Feat. theorist and philosopher BENJAMIN H. BRATTON, this episode offers a high-gear, macroscopic mapping of Earth and its systems circa 2019 — incl. how notions of “the artificial” and “intelligence” differ across cultures; hemispheric zones of citizenship and exclusion in the age of AR; and a view of human consciousness as a geological phenomenon, a layer through which Earth's planetary system is coming to know itself. Plus much, much more. Bratton, whose work spans philosophy, art, design, ...

Episode 15: REMOTE PORT (Benjamin Bratton)

June 18, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 159 MB

Feat. theorist and philosopher BENJAMIN H. BRATTON, this episode offers a high-gear, macroscopic mapping of Earth and its systems circa 2019 — incl. how notions of “the artificial” and “intelligence” differ across cultures; hemispheric zones of citizenship and exclusion in the age of AR; and a view of human consciousness as a geological phenomenon, a layer through which Earth's planetary system is coming to know itself. Plus much, much more. Bratton, whose work spans philosophy, art, design, ...

EP 14: SHIFT ALT RIGHT CLIQUE (Joshua Citarella)

May 24, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Feat. artist and social theorist JOSHUA CITARELLA who has been exploring how deep online spaces have evolved over the past few years, shaping popular politics in turn — especially among younger people. Last fall when we spoke to Joshua (ep. 6), he had just published a long-form piece on Politigram and the Post-Left. In this ep, we talk to him about his most recent essay, "Irony Politics & Gen Z" (published on New Models this spring), discussing the funnel of online radicalization and what tac...

Episode 14: SHIFT ALT RIGHT CLIQUE (Joshua Citarella, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

May 24, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Feat. artist and social theorist JOSHUA CITARELLA who has been exploring how deep online spaces have evolved over the past few years, shaping popular politics in turn — especially among younger people. Last fall when we spoke to Joshua (ep. 6), he had just published a long-form piece on Politigram and the Post-Left. In this ep, we talk to him about his most recent essay, "Irony Politics & Gen Z" (published on New Models this spring), discussing the funnel of online radicalization and what tac...

Episode 14: SHIFT ALT RIGHT CLIQUE (Joshua Citarella)

May 24, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Feat. artist and social theorist JOSHUA CITARELLA who has been exploring how deep online spaces have evolved over the past few years, shaping popular politics in turn — especially among younger people. Last fall when we spoke to Joshua (ep. 6), he had just published a long-form piece on Politigram and the Post-Left. In this ep, we talk to him about his most recent essay, "Irony Politics & Gen Z" (published on New Models this spring), discussing the funnel of online radicalization and what tac...

[PREVIEW] NM TopSoil Ep 7: CENTRIXXFUGE

May 20, 2019 00:00 - 3 minutes - 6.61 MB

TopSoil is New Models' loose, talk-core cast, which we share in full with our Patreon community. For complete episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nm-topsoil-ep-7-26971268 NM TopSoil™ Ep 7 (MAY 2019): MONOCULTURES & FILTRATION, HUMANITY's PLAN B, and the HBO series CHERNOBYL as climate collapse allegory. Plus: DAN taste-tests BEYOND MEAT, RAPPERS & SHELLFISH, LIL NET's refresher on BIDEN's RAVE ACT, and CARLY's take on artist Christoph BÜCHEL installing a shipwrecked migrant boat dockside ...

Episode 13: JE REFUSE (Jenny Odell, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

April 17, 2019 12:55 - 1 hour - 173 MB

Featuring artist and lecturer of Internet Art at Stanford University, JENNY ODELL who is the author of a new field book for the attention economy "How to Do Nothing" (Melville House, 2019). Odell speaks to NM about disorientation in the current online space, the value of physical context and community, and the practical tactics of refusal. Plus: bioregionalism, Silicon Valley Ayahuasca, the origins of the commodification of time, lucid dreaming -- and bird watching. For more: Jenny Odell, ...

Episode 13: JE REFUSE (Jenny Odell)

April 17, 2019 12:55 - 1 hour - 173 MB

Featuring artist and lecturer of Internet Art at Stanford University, JENNY ODELL who is the author of a new field book for the attention economy "How to Do Nothing" (Melville House, 2019). Odell speaks to NM about disorientation in the current online space, the value of physical context and community, and the practical tactics of refusal. Plus: bioregionalism, Silicon Valley Ayahuasca, the origins of the commodification of time, lucid dreaming -- and bird watching. For more: Jenny Odell, ...

EP 13: JE REFUSE (Jenny Odell)

April 17, 2019 12:55 - 1 hour - 173 MB

Featuring artist and lecturer of Internet Art at Stanford University, JENNY ODELL who is the author of a new field book for the attention economy "How to Do Nothing" (Melville House, 2019). Odell speaks to NM about disorientation in the current online space, the value of physical context and community, and the practical tactics of refusal. Plus: bioregionalism, Silicon Valley Ayahuasca, the origins of the commodification of time, lucid dreaming -- and bird watching. For more: Jenny Odell, ...

[PREVIEW] NM TopSoil™ Ep 6: THE WEIRDENING

April 06, 2019 00:00 - 5 minutes - 12.6 MB

TopSoil is New Models' loose, talk-core cast, which we share in full with our Patreon community. For complete episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nm-topsoil-tm-ep-25905484 NM TopSoil™ Ep 6 (APR 2019): NIHILISM, MORALISM, and the historical persistence of MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION. Plus: LIL NET addresses NIPSEY HUSSEL CONSPIRACIES and locates a LOST GRIMES PERFORMANCE deep on the CHINESE INTERNET; DAN talks UKRAINIAN POLITICS and that time he met KAWS; CARLY weighs the ART WORLD'S BIGG...

EP 12: BLACK SOCIALISTS (Z from BSA)

March 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 172 MB

New Models speaks with Z, founder of the BLACK SOCIALISTS of AMERICA (BSA), an online channel turned IRL organization providing a forum and voice for black American leftists as well as education around the values of socialism (per Marx). In this episode, we discuss the inherent racism of the "American Dream" (i.e., capitalism), the promise of worker co-ops, identity politics' tactical deficiencies in big stack activism, and how to leverage online traction to effect real world political change...

Episode 12: BLACK SOCIALISTS (Z from BSA)

March 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 172 MB

New Models speaks with Z, founder of the BLACK SOCIALISTS of AMERICA (BSA), an online channel turned IRL organization providing a forum and voice for black American leftists as well as education around the values of socialism (per Marx). In this episode, we discuss the inherent racism of the "American Dream" (i.e., capitalism), the promise of worker co-ops, identity politics' tactical deficiencies in big stack activism, and how to leverage online traction to effect real world political change...

Episode 12: BLACK SOCIALISTS (Z, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

March 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 172 MB

New Models speaks with Z, founder of the BLACK SOCIALISTS of AMERICA (BSA), an online channel turned IRL organization providing a forum and voice for black American leftists as well as education around the values of socialism (per Marx). In this episode, we discuss the inherent racism of the "American Dream" (i.e., capitalism), the promise of worker co-ops, identity politics' tactical deficiencies in big stack activism, and how to leverage online traction to effect real world political change...

[PREVIEW] NM TopSoil™ Ep 5: EASTERN PROMISES (w/ NIK KOSMAS)

March 21, 2019 00:00 - 6 minutes - 16.7 MB

TopSoil is New Models' loose, talk-core cast, which we share in full with our Patreon community only. For complete episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25533267 NM TopSoil™ Ep 5 (MAR 2019): BERLIN/BANGKOK with special guest NIK KOSMAS. MALLS, MANPOWER, and POST-COLLAPSE MORALITY. PLUS: DEEP ADAPTATION, BEEF SHAMING, and DAILY LIFE in PRESENT-DAY SHANGHAI. ALSO: DAN offers a narrative for CLIMATE-INDUCED SOCIETAL BREAKDOWN, LIL NET imagines 1000 of the world's greatest SCIENTISTS CRYING on...

Episode 11: DOWNSTREAM (Liz Pelly, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

March 02, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 186 MB

When Spotify was founded in 2006, it aimed to solve the problem of online music distribution, remunerating artists for plays. 13 years on, it is a massive data node that is having a profound effect on how artists and audiences connect. In this cast, New Models speaks with music journalist Liz Pelly, who has written extensively on Spotify, particularly its impact on independent music. She talks to us, here, about Spotify's structure, how it nudges artists to optimize their acts through metric...

Episode 11: DOWNSTREAM (Liz Pelly)

March 02, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 186 MB

When Spotify was founded in 2006, it aimed to solve the problem of online music distribution, remunerating artists for plays. 13 years on, it is a massive data node that is having a profound effect on how artists and audiences connect. In this cast, New Models speaks with music journalist Liz Pelly, who has written extensively on Spotify, particularly its impact on independent music. She talks to us, here, about Spotify's structure, how it nudges artists to optimize their acts through metric...

EP 11: DOWNSTREAM (Liz Pelly)

March 02, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 186 MB

When Spotify was founded in 2006, it aimed to solve the problem of online music distribution, remunerating artists for plays. 13 years on, it is a massive data node that is having a profound effect on how artists and audiences connect. In this cast, New Models speaks with music journalist Liz Pelly, who has written extensively on Spotify, particularly its impact on independent music. She talks to us, here, about Spotify's structure, how it nudges artists to optimize their acts through metric...

LIVE: Panel on Art & Blockchain, Dec 2018(BREKKE, CATLOW, KREUTLER; mod. BUSTA)

February 13, 2019 00:00 - 57 minutes - 132 MB

The discussion was recorded December 15, 2018 at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin for the closing event of "PROOF of WORK," an exhibition curated by artist Simon Denny. https://bit.ly/2M42o4T The panel features three individuals working at the intersection of art & blockchain tech: scholar and creative producer Jaya-Klara BREKKE; artist and director of @furtherfield, Ruth CATLOW; and researcher and Gnosis strategist Kei KREUTLER. This recording has been made possible by the Schinkel Pavillon...

EP 10: LOOSE CLIMATE CHANGE (Christine Lariviere)

January 11, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 196 MB

CHRISTINE LARIVIERE works at the intersection of climate change and media. In this ep., she helps us render a massive map of the anthropocene (and humanity's fate therein)while exploring why the word "systems" belies the incomprehensibly vast matrix of networks our changing climate is set to effect. If you make it past the hour mark, stay locked for some hot local foraging tips. (with Busta, Keller, & @LILINTERNET). More from Christine here: https://twitter.com/cdlariviere

Episode 10: LOOSE CLIMATE CHANGE (Christine Lariviere, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

January 11, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 196 MB

Christine Lariviere works at the intersection of climate change and media. In this ep., she helps us render a massive map of the anthropocene (and humanity's fate therein)while exploring why the word "systems" belies the incomprehensibly vast matrix of networks our changing climate is set to effect. If you make it past the hour mark, stay locked for some hot local foraging tips. (with Busta, Keller, & @LILINTERNET). More from Christine here: https://twitter.com/cdlariviere

Episode 10: LOOSE CLIMATE CHANGE (Christine Lariviere)

January 11, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 196 MB

CHRISTINE LARIVIERE works at the intersection of climate change and media. In this ep., she helps us render a massive map of the anthropocene (and humanity's fate therein)while exploring why the word "systems" belies the incomprehensibly vast matrix of networks our changing climate is set to effect. If you make it past the hour mark, stay locked for some hot local foraging tips. (with Busta, Keller, & @LILINTERNET). More from Christine here: https://twitter.com/cdlariviere

EP 9: STACK ATTACK (Cade)

December 08, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Berlin-based designer Cade, a specialist in weaponized design, discusses the collateral (human) damage platforms cause as they scale; questions big tech's G-rated ideation of the average subject; considers the functionality of personal mobile devices within precarious communities, and remarks on the actual inefficiency of the cloud. (With Busta, Keller, & @LILINTERNET) See more of Cade's work: https://shiba.computer/

Episode 9: STACK ATTACK (@helveticade, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

December 08, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Berlin-based designer Cade, a specialist in weaponized design, discusses the collateral (human) damage platforms cause as they scale; questions big tech's G-rated ideation of the average subject; considers the functionality of personal mobile devices within precarious communities, and remarks on the actual inefficiency of the cloud. (With Busta, Keller, & @LILINTERNET) See more of Cade's work: https://shiba.computer/

Episode 9: STACK ATTACK (Cade)

December 08, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Berlin-based designer Cade, a specialist in weaponized design, discusses the collateral (human) damage platforms cause as they scale; questions big tech's G-rated ideation of the average subject; considers the functionality of personal mobile devices within precarious communities, and remarks on the actual inefficiency of the cloud. (With Busta, Keller, & @LILINTERNET) See more of Cade's work: https://shiba.computer/

Episode 8: MANPLAY (Ed Fornieles, Busta, Keller, @LILINTERNET)

November 23, 2018 00:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MB

Artist ED FORNIELES discusses diving headfirst into the toxic, hierarchal fantasy of masculinity, and the present difficulties of finding an alternative. His recent work "The Cell," which is featured in the 6th Athens Biennale, documents a LARP Fornieles staged earlier this year around the narrative of an all-male, alt-right gamer group. (With Busta, Keller, and @LILINTERNET) This podcast is part of New Models' series for the "ANTI-" Athens Biennale 6.

EP 8: MANPLAY (Ed Fornieles)

November 23, 2018 00:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MB

Artist ED FORNIELES discusses diving headfirst into the toxic, hierarchal fantasy of masculinity, and the present difficulties of finding an alternative. His recent work "The Cell," which is featured in the 6th Athens Biennale, documents a LARP Fornieles staged earlier this year around the narrative of an all-male, alt-right gamer group. (With Busta, Keller, and @LILINTERNET) This podcast is part of New Models' series for the "ANTI-" Athens Biennale 6.

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