Artists and Hackers https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com A podcast dedicated to the community that is building and using new digital tools for creation. We’re looking at the current palette of artmaking tools online, and taking a critical eye to the history of technology and the internet. We’re interested in where we’ve been and speculative ideas on the future. Tue, 30 Apr 2024 02:55:23 -0300 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2022 All rights reserved. Arts 1440 episodic Artists and Hackers is a podcast dedicated to the community that is building and using new digital tools for creation. We're looking at the current palette of artists and hackers, and taking a critical eye to the history of technology and the internet. We're interested in where we've been and speculative ideas on the future. artistsandhackers artistsandhackers No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/9310899/Instagram_Post_-_1acjqs.png Artists and Hackers https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com 144 144 From Monkey Selfies to Machine Learning: Generative Art and the Public Domain From Monkey Selfies to Machine Learning: Generative Art and the Public Domain https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/from-monkey-selfies-to-machine-learning-generative-art-and-the-public-domain/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/from-monkey-selfies-to-machine-learning-generative-art-and-the-public-domain/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2024 02:55:23 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/992f0f19-ddf2-3d49-8588-e7d7bbb2def4 In our final episode of the season we reconnect with Michael Weinberg, Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, for the recent legal cases revolving around generative AI models and the continuing impact of the monkey selfie legal case.

Episode page with notes and transcript

This season of the podcast was produced with the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy at NYU.

Our host is Lee Tusman. Our audio production is by Max Ludlow.

All of the music on today’s episode are by our audio engineer Max Ludlow. The tracks are Body Memory, Poole and Relic, CC BY.

This episode is licensed under CC BY 4.0

]]> In our final episode of the season we reconnect with Michael Weinberg, Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, for the recent legal cases revolving around generative AI models and the continuing impact of the monkey selfie legal case.

Episode page with notes and transcript

This season of the podcast was produced with the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy at NYU.

Our host is Lee Tusman. Our audio production is by Max Ludlow.

All of the music on today’s episode are by our audio engineer Max Ludlow. The tracks are Body Memory, Poole and Relic, CC BY.

This episode is licensed under CC BY 4.0

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1052 25 full Intellectual Property and Indigenous Heritage Intellectual Property and Indigenous Heritage https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/intellectual-property-and-indigenous-heritage/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/intellectual-property-and-indigenous-heritage/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2024 01:15:40 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/4f114aed-59a0-3f05-b58f-69690570fb95 In today’s episode, we’re looking at issues that come up in Indigenous communities, and one initiative to respond to the limitations of the law and to reassert cultural authority in one’s own heritage, culture and data.

Episode notes

In this season of the podcast we’re working with the Engelberg Center for Innovation Policy at NYU Law.

In this episode, Dr. Jane Anderson talks about how she found “the law doesn’t do a very good job in protecting collective knowledge.”

One of the big challenges in the area that I work in is the language of ownership to start with, and the framework of property itself conditions what’s possible to think about and what’s possible to talk about.

Jane co-founded Local Contexts, “a global initiative that supports Indigenous communities with tools that can reassert cultural authority in heritage collections and data. By focusing on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Local Contexts helps Indigenous communities repatriate knowledge and gain control over how data is collected, managed, displayed, accessed, and used in the future.”

We also speak with Courtney Papuni of Te Whakatohea iwi in Opotiki. Courtney speaks on her community’s work with Local Contexts labels and the limitations of western notions of copyright on cultural heritage and knowledge.

Full transcript, notes, links and contact can be found on the episode website.

]]> In today’s episode, we’re looking at issues that come up in Indigenous communities, and one initiative to respond to the limitations of the law and to reassert cultural authority in one’s own heritage, culture and data.

Episode notes

In this season of the podcast we’re working with the Engelberg Center for Innovation Policy at NYU Law.

In this episode, Dr. Jane Anderson talks about how she found “the law doesn’t do a very good job in protecting collective knowledge.”

One of the big challenges in the area that I work in is the language of ownership to start with, and the framework of property itself conditions what’s possible to think about and what’s possible to talk about.

Jane co-founded Local Contexts, “a global initiative that supports Indigenous communities with tools that can reassert cultural authority in heritage collections and data. By focusing on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Local Contexts helps Indigenous communities repatriate knowledge and gain control over how data is collected, managed, displayed, accessed, and used in the future.”

We also speak with Courtney Papuni of Te Whakatohea iwi in Opotiki. Courtney speaks on her community’s work with Local Contexts labels and the limitations of western notions of copyright on cultural heritage and knowledge.

Full transcript, notes, links and contact can be found on the episode website.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 2679 24 full Fair Use, the Internet Archive and the Public Domain Fair Use, the Internet Archive and the Public Domain https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/fair-use-the-internet-archive-and-the-public-domain/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/fair-use-the-internet-archive-and-the-public-domain/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2024 01:55:02 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/ebd12b95-9ec5-3816-a0ac-e3d03e90e36a In this episode we speak to Brewster Kahle, the Founder and Chief Librarian of the Internet Archive on the occasion of Public Domain Day. We also speak to Amanda Levendowski, Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic on the concept of fair use, its history and application for artists.

Full episode notes, transcription, links and bios can be found on the episode notes page.

Episode notes

This episode is licensed under CC BY 4.0

 

]]> In this episode we speak to Brewster Kahle, the Founder and Chief Librarian of the Internet Archive on the occasion of Public Domain Day. We also speak to Amanda Levendowski, Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic on the concept of fair use, its history and application for artists.

Full episode notes, transcription, links and bios can be found on the episode notes page.

Episode notes

This episode is licensed under CC BY 4.0

 

]]> artistsandhackers false No 2032 23 full Creating in a Commons: Conversations with Creative Commons and Disquiet Junto Creating in a Commons: Conversations with Creative Commons and Disquiet Junto https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/creating-in-a-commons-conversations-with-creative-commons-and-disquiet-junto/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/creating-in-a-commons-conversations-with-creative-commons-and-disquiet-junto/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2024 02:34:22 -0400 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/919e5323-a5bb-3ba2-81ed-2f17321b94d7 Kat Walsh from Creative Commons joins us to talk about the history of Creative Commons as a 'hack on copyright.' Marc Weidenbaum speaks on the history of the Disquiet Junto, a long-running online distributed community creating new music in response to a weekly online composition challenge.

Episode notes, credits and transcript

In this season of the podcast we’re working in collaboration with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU Law. In addition to our usual crop of artists and programmers we’re adding in legal scholars to help us unpack some of the thorny issues for those working in art and code as they unleash their work into the world.

In this episode we dive into the world of Creative Commons, which is now over 20 years old. It is both an organization as well as a collection of copyright licenses used by artists, musicians, writers, directors and creators worldwide to communicate to the world how they want their work shared and potentially to be used as a source to build upon.

We also speak to Marc Weidenbaum, founder and steward of the Disquiet Junto, an online “community of practice.” Each week Marc sends out an email newsletter with a creative prompt, consisting of a title, and instructions. These instructions may read like a Fluxus event score, a recipe in sound, a concept or technical description. Those who choose to participate create a single piece of music, then post it online, to be shared, listened to and potentially discussed by the online community. Marc has been leading Disquiet Junto since 2012, and from the beginning has encouraged participants to share their work with Creative Commons licenses. In fact the creative re-use of Creative Commons licensed sound and music has often been an integral part of Disquiet Junto creative prompts.

Guests

Kat Walsh is the General Counsel at Creative Commons. She has a nearly 20-year history in the free and open culture movements, including many years on the boards of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Free Software Foundation, and has previously worked in library policy, technology startups, and online community management. As General Counsel, she oversees the legal support for all aspects of CC’s activities, provides strategic input, leads the stewardship of CC’s legal tools, and advises the organization on new programmatic initiatives.

image description: a black and white image of Marc looking to the right. He has dark hair and a close cropped beard, wearing a high collared knit sweater and black frame glasses.

Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com in 1996 at the intersection of sound, art, and technology, and since 2012 has moderated the Disquiet Junto, an active online community of weekly music/sonic projects that explore constraints as a springboard for creativity and productivity.

Links

Creative Commons Licenses and Tools

Creative Commons talks with Marc Weidenbaum

Email announcement list for the Disquiet Junto

Marc’s website Disquiet, on the intersection of sound, art and technology

Credits

Our audio production is by Max Ludlow. Design by Caleb Stone.

Our music on today’s episode is all taken from Creative Commons licensed music created as part of the Disquiet Junto.

all at fives, sixes and sevens by wasabicube, CC BY NC SA. three euclidean rhythms, CC BY NC SA, by Lee Evans/Hippies Wearing Muzzles, both from disquiet0567 Three Meters.

Ways, CC BY NC SA, by the artist analoc for disquiet0482 Exactly That Gap.

Little Green Aura, CC BY NC SA, by he_nu_ri and lako by Ohm Research, for disquiet0566 Outdoor Furniture Music

four voice folly by caustic_gates, CC BY NC SA, part of disquiet0565 Musical Folly

much too young to…, CC BY, by NolanVerde for disquiet0066 Communing with Nofi, a posthumous collaboration with the artist Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed in 2013.

This episode is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

]]> Kat Walsh from Creative Commons joins us to talk about the history of Creative Commons as a 'hack on copyright.' Marc Weidenbaum speaks on the history of the Disquiet Junto, a long-running online distributed community creating new music in response to a weekly online composition challenge.

Episode notes, credits and transcript

In this season of the podcast we’re working in collaboration with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU Law. In addition to our usual crop of artists and programmers we’re adding in legal scholars to help us unpack some of the thorny issues for those working in art and code as they unleash their work into the world.

In this episode we dive into the world of Creative Commons, which is now over 20 years old. It is both an organization as well as a collection of copyright licenses used by artists, musicians, writers, directors and creators worldwide to communicate to the world how they want their work shared and potentially to be used as a source to build upon.

We also speak to Marc Weidenbaum, founder and steward of the Disquiet Junto, an online “community of practice.” Each week Marc sends out an email newsletter with a creative prompt, consisting of a title, and instructions. These instructions may read like a Fluxus event score, a recipe in sound, a concept or technical description. Those who choose to participate create a single piece of music, then post it online, to be shared, listened to and potentially discussed by the online community. Marc has been leading Disquiet Junto since 2012, and from the beginning has encouraged participants to share their work with Creative Commons licenses. In fact the creative re-use of Creative Commons licensed sound and music has often been an integral part of Disquiet Junto creative prompts.

Guests

Kat Walsh is the General Counsel at Creative Commons. She has a nearly 20-year history in the free and open culture movements, including many years on the boards of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Free Software Foundation, and has previously worked in library policy, technology startups, and online community management. As General Counsel, she oversees the legal support for all aspects of CC’s activities, provides strategic input, leads the stewardship of CC’s legal tools, and advises the organization on new programmatic initiatives.


image description: a black and white image of Marc looking to the right. He has dark hair and a close cropped beard, wearing a high collared knit sweater and black frame glasses.

Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com in 1996 at the intersection of sound, art, and technology, and since 2012 has moderated the Disquiet Junto, an active online community of weekly music/sonic projects that explore constraints as a springboard for creativity and productivity.

Links

Creative Commons Licenses and Tools

Creative Commons talks with Marc Weidenbaum

Email announcement list for the Disquiet Junto

Marc’s website Disquiet, on the intersection of sound, art and technology

Credits

Our audio production is by Max Ludlow. Design by Caleb Stone.

Our music on today’s episode is all taken from Creative Commons licensed music created as part of the Disquiet Junto.

all at fives, sixes and sevens by wasabicube, CC BY NC SA. three euclidean rhythms, CC BY NC SA, by Lee Evans/Hippies Wearing Muzzles, both from disquiet0567 Three Meters.

Ways, CC BY NC SA, by the artist analoc for disquiet0482 Exactly That Gap.

Little Green Aura, CC BY NC SA, by he_nu_ri and lako by Ohm Research, for disquiet0566 Outdoor Furniture Music

four voice folly by caustic_gates, CC BY NC SA, part of disquiet0565 Musical Folly

much too young to…, CC BY, by NolanVerde for disquiet0066 Communing with Nofi, a posthumous collaboration with the artist Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed in 2013.

This episode is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1744 22 full Lawyers and Hackers Lawyers and Hackers https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/lawyers-and-hackers/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/lawyers-and-hackers/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:17:11 -0400 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/292b0158-f040-3938-ae21-73a9a52b1ab2 This episode kicks off our season working with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. We talk about copyright and its limits; licenses and ethical open source; and the infamous monkey selfie legal case.

This episode features conversations with Michael Weinberg, the Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU School of Law. We also speak with computer scientist, game designer and media artist Ramsey Nasser on the Anti-Capitalist Software License. Finally, we join some of the organizers from the ml5.js programming library, which aims to make “machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students.”

Episode notes and transcript

]]> This episode kicks off our season working with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. We talk about copyright and its limits; licenses and ethical open source; and the infamous monkey selfie legal case.

This episode features conversations with Michael Weinberg, the Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU School of Law. We also speak with computer scientist, game designer and media artist Ramsey Nasser on the Anti-Capitalist Software License. Finally, we join some of the organizers from the ml5.js programming library, which aims to make “machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students.”

Episode notes and transcript

]]> artistsandhackers false No 2187 21 full New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists - Live Episode New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists - Live Episode https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/new-rules-conversations-with-new-media-artists-live-episode/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/new-rules-conversations-with-new-media-artists-live-episode/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2023 01:57:30 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/36ee8548-65fd-3352-868d-38abda512b94 This episode features our special live podcast recording event we held February 2023 in New York City. Four of the artists from this season engage in a roundtable discussion on their art practice, teaching, pedagogy and more.

Episode notes, transcript and links

This season we’ve partnered with the New Media Caucus, an international non-profit formed to promote the development and understanding of new media art. This season of the podcast is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts grants for arts projects.

 

]]> This episode features our special live podcast recording event we held February 2023 in New York City. Four of the artists from this season engage in a roundtable discussion on their art practice, teaching, pedagogy and more.

Episode notes, transcript and links

This season we’ve partnered with the New Media Caucus, an international non-profit formed to promote the development and understanding of new media art. This season of the podcast is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts grants for arts projects.

 

]]> artistsandhackers false No 2760 20 full Immersive Media and Co-creation with Formerly Incarcerated Fathers Immersive Media and Co-creation with Formerly Incarcerated Fathers https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/immersive-media-and-co-creation-with-formerly-incarcerated-fathers/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/immersive-media-and-co-creation-with-formerly-incarcerated-fathers/#comments Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:56:27 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/6d564818-d29f-3880-919b-c25e386f9c03 A Father's Lullaby is the name of an expansive ongoing research and storytelling project established by the new media artist Rashin Fahandej. Working with the formerly incarcerated, as well as her undergraduate students, the project highlights the role of fathers in raising children, and creates a space for paradigm shifting and social equity through a process of community co-creation.

Program notes, transcript and credit

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting www.newmediacaucus.org. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

]]> A Father's Lullaby is the name of an expansive ongoing research and storytelling project established by the new media artist Rashin Fahandej. Working with the formerly incarcerated, as well as her undergraduate students, the project highlights the role of fathers in raising children, and creates a space for paradigm shifting and social equity through a process of community co-creation.

Program notes, transcript and credit

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting www.newmediacaucus.org. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1649 19 full Erotic Ecologies and the Fluid Relationships Between Humans and A.I. Erotic Ecologies and the Fluid Relationships Between Humans and A.I. https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/erotic-ecologies-and-the-fluid-relationships-between-humans-and-ai/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/erotic-ecologies-and-the-fluid-relationships-between-humans-and-ai/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:08:16 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/4d96aab9-c277-336e-82f8-94c0ce22cdb7 Speculative Design is an area of artistic and creative exploration and future-casting. Practitioners dream future possibilities to address societal challenges through design and create experimental projects in new territories. New media artist Sue Huang creates artworks addressing collective experience. Her projects probe ecological intimacies and explore the fluid borders between humans and A.I.

Episode notes, credits and transcript

Speculative Design is an area of artistic and creative exploration and future-casting. Practitioners dream future possibilities to address societal challenges through design and create experimental projects in new territories. New media artist Sue Huang creates artworks addressing collective experience. Her projects probe ecological intimacies and explore the fluid borders between humans and A.I.

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting www.newmediacaucus.org. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

]]> Speculative Design is an area of artistic and creative exploration and future-casting. Practitioners dream future possibilities to address societal challenges through design and create experimental projects in new territories. New media artist Sue Huang creates artworks addressing collective experience. Her projects probe ecological intimacies and explore the fluid borders between humans and A.I.

Episode notes, credits and transcript

Speculative Design is an area of artistic and creative exploration and future-casting. Practitioners dream future possibilities to address societal challenges through design and create experimental projects in new territories. New media artist Sue Huang creates artworks addressing collective experience. Her projects probe ecological intimacies and explore the fluid borders between humans and A.I.

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting www.newmediacaucus.org. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1447 18 full A Meditation on Power on all Levels A Meditation on Power on all Levels https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/a-meditation-on-power-on-all-levels/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/a-meditation-on-power-on-all-levels/#comments Thu, 31 Aug 2023 01:01:16 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/d0b01288-204e-3284-9d50-1ed63ec3c64b Shawné Michaelain Holloway is a new media artist with a "noisy, experimental practice." Her performances and practice make use of constraints, pain and pleasure, speaking to issues of power, both in private, intimate space as well as in the public sphere.

Full episode notes, transcript and credits

Her projects often feature animal training, algorithmic scores or controls, and a reference to or use of robotics - speaking to the time we live in now, anxiety and pleasure, as we embrace, and are repulsed by the latest technologies.

 

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting www.newmediacaucus.org. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

]]> Shawné Michaelain Holloway is a new media artist with a "noisy, experimental practice." Her performances and practice make use of constraints, pain and pleasure, speaking to issues of power, both in private, intimate space as well as in the public sphere.

Full episode notes, transcript and credits

Her projects often feature animal training, algorithmic scores or controls, and a reference to or use of robotics - speaking to the time we live in now, anxiety and pleasure, as we embrace, and are repulsed by the latest technologies.

 

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting www.newmediacaucus.org. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1783 17 full Duct Tape Hacking and Joyful Resistance Duct Tape Hacking and Joyful Resistance https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/duct-tape-hacking-and-joyful-resistance/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/duct-tape-hacking-and-joyful-resistance/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:34:45 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/7317dc28-125b-3473-9e34-798c7ea21489 KT Duffy likes to say they conjure entities into existence via code-based processes and digital fabrication. They consider themselves a 'duct tape programmer' and have a background in DIY community, which is evident in their many collaborations and their fondness for projects using 1990s green slime.

Episode notes, transcript and credits

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting newmediacaucus.org.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit arts.gov

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artistsandhackers/

Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/home

Website: https://artistsandhackers.org

]]> KT Duffy likes to say they conjure entities into existence via code-based processes and digital fabrication. They consider themselves a 'duct tape programmer' and have a background in DIY community, which is evident in their many collaborations and their fondness for projects using 1990s green slime.

Episode notes, transcript and credits

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting newmediacaucus.org.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit arts.gov

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artistsandhackers/

Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/home

Website: https://artistsandhackers.org

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1297 16 full Liberatory Coding and the Transcode Manifesto Liberatory Coding and the Transcode Manifesto https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/liberatory-coding-and-the-transcode-manifesto/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/liberatory-coding-and-the-transcode-manifesto/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:12:38 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/9d5297cd-31aa-3b25-b1c0-b8cc93700145 Chelsea Thompto is a transdisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersections of art, trans studies, and technology. We talk about the Transcode Manifesto, digital preservation, and how software is not like sculpture.

Episode notes, transcript and credits

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting newmediacaucus.org.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit arts.gov

]]> Chelsea Thompto is a transdisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersections of art, trans studies, and technology. We talk about the Transcode Manifesto, digital preservation, and how software is not like sculpture.

Episode notes, transcript and credits

This season of the podcast is produced with the New Media Caucus for New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists. You can find out more by visiting newmediacaucus.org.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit arts.gov

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1940 15 full LIVE EVENT New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists - February 17 LIVE EVENT New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists - February 17 https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/live-event-new-rules-new-media-artists-in-conversation-february-17/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/live-event-new-rules-new-media-artists-in-conversation-february-17/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:03:39 -0400 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/827153e7-11e2-354f-a06a-8279f1c3ca1a We’ve teamed up with the New Media Caucus, an international non-profit association that supports the development and understanding of new media art. They work with artists, designers, practitioners, historians, theorists, educators, students, and scholars - so a perfect partnership with our show.

New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists Friday, February 17, 2023  7:30pm - 9pm  FREE  RSVP

The event we’re hosting is called New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists, and it’s happening in New York City on Friday February 17th from 7:30pm - 9pm. I’ll be speaking live and recording a special episode with the New Media Artists KT Duffy, Rashin Fahandej, Sue Huang, and Chelsea Thompto about their work as new media artists.

The event is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by an informal dinner. You can RSVP to attend on our website, via a link from our Instagram artistsandhackers, through our newsletter if you’re one of our email newsletter subscribers, or from the New Media Caucus website. We’re asking you to please RSVP by Saturday the 11th (extended, please RSVP by the 14th) and we’ll send you the exact location just over the river into Queens, and it’s being held in an accessible art space. We hope to see you there.

New Rules is made possible with funding from the National Endowment for Arts.

Thanks

Notes

]]> We’ve teamed up with the New Media Caucus, an international non-profit association that supports the development and understanding of new media art. They work with artists, designers, practitioners, historians, theorists, educators, students, and scholars - so a perfect partnership with our show.

New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists
Friday, February 17, 2023 
7:30pm - 9pm 
FREE 
RSVP

The event we’re hosting is called New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists, and it’s happening in New York City on Friday February 17th from 7:30pm - 9pm. I’ll be speaking live and recording a special episode with the New Media Artists KT Duffy, Rashin Fahandej, Sue Huang, and Chelsea Thompto about their work as new media artists.

The event is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by an informal dinner. You can RSVP to attend on our website, via a link from our Instagram artistsandhackers, through our newsletter if you’re one of our email newsletter subscribers, or from the New Media Caucus website. We’re asking you to please RSVP by Saturday the 11th (extended, please RSVP by the 14th) and we’ll send you the exact location just over the river into Queens, and it’s being held in an accessible art space. We hope to see you there.

New Rules is made possible with funding from the National Endowment for Arts.

Thanks

Notes

]]> artistsandhackers false No 82 14 full Art Tools: Designing Interactive Fiction with Twine Art Tools: Designing Interactive Fiction with Twine https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/art-tools-designing-interactive-fiction-with-twine/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/art-tools-designing-interactive-fiction-with-twine/#comments Thu, 05 May 2022 03:53:16 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/199de706-7280-318b-92c2-3673af62e036 Chris Klimas is the original creator of Twine, a popular open source expanded toolset for creating branching narratives and interactive experimental stories and game. He talks about its creation, community and where it's going next.

episodes notes

Art Tools are our series of mini episodes with the creators of innovative and experimental software and hardware tools for creative expression.

Twine is a tool for creating branching narratives or what some people call "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style games. Originally created in 2009, Twine allows creators to make interactive stories, poems, text games or experimental prose. Twine is free and open source software that runs in a web browser or downloaded as an application, and while most Twine projects are text-only, some feature sound and images. At this point, there are tens of thousands of games, artworks and projects made with Twine, and these works are presented on websites, shared on the game distribution platform Itch.io or even shown in museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Over its 13 years of existence Twine’s been extended in many different directions, with themes and example code. And it’s really easy to get started. Where other interactive fiction software is created solely with text and code, Twine features a visual design tool that feels as easy as creating an email. We talked to Twine’s creator Chris Klimas to find out more about its history and current development and community.

]]> Chris Klimas is the original creator of Twine, a popular open source expanded toolset for creating branching narratives and interactive experimental stories and game. He talks about its creation, community and where it's going next.

episodes notes

Art Tools are our series of mini episodes with the creators of innovative and experimental software and hardware tools for creative expression.

Twine is a tool for creating branching narratives or what some people call "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style games. Originally created in 2009, Twine allows creators to make interactive stories, poems, text games or experimental prose. Twine is free and open source software that runs in a web browser or downloaded as an application, and while most Twine projects are text-only, some feature sound and images. At this point, there are tens of thousands of games, artworks and projects made with Twine, and these works are presented on websites, shared on the game distribution platform Itch.io or even shown in museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Over its 13 years of existence Twine’s been extended in many different directions, with themes and example code. And it’s really easy to get started. Where other interactive fiction software is created solely with text and code, Twine features a visual design tool that feels as easy as creating an email. We talked to Twine’s creator Chris Klimas to find out more about its history and current development and community.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 917 13 full Art Tools: Winterbloom’s Open Source Synthesizer Modules Art Tools: Winterbloom’s Open Source Synthesizer Modules https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/art-tools-winterbloom-s-open-source-synthesizer-modules/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/art-tools-winterbloom-s-open-source-synthesizer-modules/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2022 03:24:14 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/ae57a3b6-5147-3075-8433-75d0a615b45e In this Art Tools episode we interview Thea Flowers of Winterbloom, an open source music hardware company producing hackable music modules and kits for synthesizers. And we try out the Big Honking Button.

Episode notes

Art Tools are our series of mini episodes with the creators of innovative and experimental software and hardware tools for creative expression.

Our guest today is Thea Flowers of Winterbloom. Winterbloom produces new, open source modular synth hardware modules for making music. These are devices that can do things like make far-out space synth sounds, act as a mixer, or an audio sampler. The world of synthesizers has a huge number of companies. Thea’s Winterbloom stands out for its beautiful designs, but perhaps even more notably, its commitment to creating beginner-friendly tutorials and using a hackable CircuitPython codebase, a friendly language for easily writing software for hardware projects.

In research for this episode we purchased a Big Honking Button, one of the first modules produced by Winterbloom. It is available as a kit of parts or complete. You plug it into a Eurorack modular synthesizer to make sounds with it. Eurorack is the name for an ecosystem of cross-compatible music hardware produced by hundreds of manufacturers, from large companies like Moog and Behringer to much smaller companies. Winterbloom’s unique open source hackable stance means that it publishes code and instructions on how to modify their hardware in order to tweak the music hardware to your own particular needs.

By default the Big Honking Button features a large arcade button that emits a punishing goose honk each time you press the button. We started by changing this sound. Following Winterbloom’s instructions we plugged our Big Honking Button into a laptop, where it showed up as if it was an external drive. The first step we took was replacing the honk sound file with a bell sound we had. Immediately the module restarted, and when we pressed the Big Honking Button our new sound could be heard. Next we added in more sound samples. We opened the code.py file, and using example code from Winterbloom’s website we modified the code to play a different sound sample depending on receiving different input voltage such as using a slider or a dial. At first, our module didn’t seem to work the way we had expected. We asked some questions on the Winterbloom discord, where friendly folks chatted with us and Thea pointed us in the right direction. We needed to update our Big Honking Button’s libraries to the current release in order to use the latest code features. This was simple, basically copying files over and restarting, and in short order our modified code and sound samples on the Big Honking Button were producing both cacophonous and blissed-out drones to our delight.

This experience of in essence changing the very nature of how the hardware works felt really incredible and unique. Doubly so as we started to jam with our customized music hardware. The fact that it’s possible to do this in the simplified Python-based CircuitPython, using easy-to-follow example code made this a straightforward and gratifying experience, and would be accessible even to those with a minimum of programming experience, especially with the helpful online community.

]]> In this Art Tools episode we interview Thea Flowers of Winterbloom, an open source music hardware company producing hackable music modules and kits for synthesizers. And we try out the Big Honking Button.

Episode notes

Art Tools are our series of mini episodes with the creators of innovative and experimental software and hardware tools for creative expression.

Our guest today is Thea Flowers of Winterbloom. Winterbloom produces new, open source modular synth hardware modules for making music. These are devices that can do things like make far-out space synth sounds, act as a mixer, or an audio sampler. The world of synthesizers has a huge number of companies. Thea’s Winterbloom stands out for its beautiful designs, but perhaps even more notably, its commitment to creating beginner-friendly tutorials and using a hackable CircuitPython codebase, a friendly language for easily writing software for hardware projects.

In research for this episode we purchased a Big Honking Button, one of the first modules produced by Winterbloom. It is available as a kit of parts or complete. You plug it into a Eurorack modular synthesizer to make sounds with it. Eurorack is the name for an ecosystem of cross-compatible music hardware produced by hundreds of manufacturers, from large companies like Moog and Behringer to much smaller companies. Winterbloom’s unique open source hackable stance means that it publishes code and instructions on how to modify their hardware in order to tweak the music hardware to your own particular needs.

By default the Big Honking Button features a large arcade button that emits a punishing goose honk each time you press the button. We started by changing this sound. Following Winterbloom’s instructions we plugged our Big Honking Button into a laptop, where it showed up as if it was an external drive. The first step we took was replacing the honk sound file with a bell sound we had. Immediately the module restarted, and when we pressed the Big Honking Button our new sound could be heard. Next we added in more sound samples. We opened the code.py file, and using example code from Winterbloom’s website we modified the code to play a different sound sample depending on receiving different input voltage such as using a slider or a dial. At first, our module didn’t seem to work the way we had expected. We asked some questions on the Winterbloom discord, where friendly folks chatted with us and Thea pointed us in the right direction. We needed to update our Big Honking Button’s libraries to the current release in order to use the latest code features. This was simple, basically copying files over and restarting, and in short order our modified code and sound samples on the Big Honking Button were producing both cacophonous and blissed-out drones to our delight.

This experience of in essence changing the very nature of how the hardware works felt really incredible and unique. Doubly so as we started to jam with our customized music hardware. The fact that it’s possible to do this in the simplified Python-based CircuitPython, using easy-to-follow example code made this a straightforward and gratifying experience, and would be accessible even to those with a minimum of programming experience, especially with the helpful online community.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 806 12 full Intimate Bots and QueerAI Intimate Bots and QueerAI https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/intimate-bots-and-queerai/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/intimate-bots-and-queerai/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2022 01:44:56 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/058eb912-e75d-37dd-8b0c-86d8b58b9a5c The final in a trio of episodes we’re doing on artists working with bots and conversational agents. We speak to Emily Martinez of QueerAI on their work in bots and their collaborative AI chatbot experiment trained on erotic literature, feminist and queer theory, and an ethics of embodiment. We also talk with Jessica Garson, a Senior Developer Advocate at Twitter.

Episode notes

Note: This episode acknowledges the existence of sex and includes intimate text written via machine learning.

]]> The final in a trio of episodes we’re doing on artists working with bots and conversational agents. We speak to Emily Martinez of QueerAI on their work in bots and their collaborative AI chatbot experiment trained on erotic literature, feminist and queer theory, and an ethics of embodiment. We also talk with Jessica Garson, a Senior Developer Advocate at Twitter.

Episode notes

Note: This episode acknowledges the existence of sex and includes intimate text written via machine learning.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1637 11 full Art Tools: Live coding with Hydra Art Tools: Live coding with Hydra https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/art-tools-live-coding-with-hydra/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/art-tools-live-coding-with-hydra/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2022 03:28:16 -0400 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/d74fe3cd-fb02-36d2-a521-c9ad75015e5a Episode notes

Today we’re kicking off a new segment called Art Tools, a series of mini episodes with the creators of innovative and experimental software for making art, music and other creative expression.

In our very first episode Critical Code we spoke with the artist Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, who created her own library and language La Habra for making live visual artwork with code. Today we’re speaking with the artist and programmer Olivia Jack on her browser-based visual livecoding software Hydra.

Hydra is a web-based video synthesizer. Olivia describes live coding as writing code in real time to make visuals and/or music as part of a performance. Originally begun as a series of explorations in the browser, Hydra is now used by a large community of live coding performers who perform in clubs and other venues, as well as in online streamed performances throughout the pandemic. There are many resources for getting started with Hydra, and a number of spin-off projects including PIXELJAM, also by Olivia, which allows multiple performers to do live coding together. There are also periodic online meetups where live coders worldwide meet up to talk and show off their works created with Hydra.

In this episode Olivia speaks on her background, the experiments that led to the creation of Hydra, and the choices she’s made in its design that has led to adoption by a large community of live coders creating visual works in the browser with Hydra.

]]> Episode notes

Today we’re kicking off a new segment called Art Tools, a series of mini episodes with the creators of innovative and experimental software for making art, music and other creative expression.

In our very first episode Critical Code we spoke with the artist Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, who created her own library and language La Habra for making live visual artwork with code. Today we’re speaking with the artist and programmer Olivia Jack on her browser-based visual livecoding software Hydra.

Hydra is a web-based video synthesizer. Olivia describes live coding as writing code in real time to make visuals and/or music as part of a performance. Originally begun as a series of explorations in the browser, Hydra is now used by a large community of live coding performers who perform in clubs and other venues, as well as in online streamed performances throughout the pandemic. There are many resources for getting started with Hydra, and a number of spin-off projects including PIXELJAM, also by Olivia, which allows multiple performers to do live coding together. There are also periodic online meetups where live coders worldwide meet up to talk and show off their works created with Hydra.

In this episode Olivia speaks on her background, the experiments that led to the creation of Hydra, and the choices she’s made in its design that has led to adoption by a large community of live coders creating visual works in the browser with Hydra.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 595 10 full Triggering the Troll Bots Triggering the Troll Bots https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/triggering-the-troll-bots/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/triggering-the-troll-bots/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:54:30 -0400 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/35dec013-4649-3d0c-83cd-7006431df00c Episode notes

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]]> artistsandhackers false No 1571 9 full Feeding Oral History to Technology Feeding Oral History to Technology https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/feeding-oral-history-to-technology/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/feeding-oral-history-to-technology/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2021 04:43:32 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/0ecb67d8-82e7-337f-815a-77c5987e1239 Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist creating platforms for dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. In this episode we speak about her conversations with the advanced AI Bina48 and her work building conversational agents based on oral history.

 

Show notes

]]> Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist creating platforms for dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. In this episode we speak about her conversations with the advanced AI Bina48 and her work building conversational agents based on oral history.

 

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]]> artistsandhackers false No 1505 8 full Yes No Wave and Indonesia Net Audio Yes No Wave and Indonesia Net Audio https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/yes-no-wave-and-indonesia-net-audio/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/yes-no-wave-and-indonesia-net-audio/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:10:05 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/ad7fa7ae-3420-3efb-bb41-417c6b970212 Episode page

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]]> artistsandhackers false No 1174 7 full Reclamation and Worldbuilding in the Iyapo Repository Reclamation and Worldbuilding in the Iyapo Repository https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/reclamation-and-worldbuilding-in-the-iyapo-repository/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/reclamation-and-worldbuilding-in-the-iyapo-repository/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2021 01:29:48 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/45b39a70-cd96-39d4-87e7-8ca25318615d Episode page

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]]> artistsandhackers false No 1736 6 full El Paquete Semanal: An Offline Internet in Cuba El Paquete Semanal: An Offline Internet in Cuba https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/el-paquete-semanal-an-offline-internet-in-cuba/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/el-paquete-semanal-an-offline-internet-in-cuba/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2021 02:59:43 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/74993c73-4f57-3338-a3fb-d15835a1e340 In this episode we talk about the phenomenon of the offline internet in Cuba known as El Paquete Semanal or The Weekly Package. Our guests are Cuban artist Nestor Siré and American artist Julia Weist who research, intervene and make art about El Paquete.

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]]> In this episode we talk about the phenomenon of the offline internet in Cuba known as El Paquete Semanal or The Weekly Package. Our guests are Cuban artist Nestor Siré and American artist Julia Weist who research, intervene and make art about El Paquete.

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]]> artistsandhackers false No 1674 5 full Community Memory and the Computing Counterculture Community Memory and the Computing Counterculture https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/community-memory-and-the-computing-counterculture/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/community-memory-and-the-computing-counterculture/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:47:43 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/8e5af7e0-e0b5-35cb-9ca0-02984a35c6a0 In this episode we're digging deep into the past of a radical history of personal computers, community networks and the rise of people's technology. Our guest is engineer Lee Felsenstein, who relates a story of activism and engineering.

Episode information

]]> In this episode we're digging deep into the past of a radical history of personal computers, community networks and the rise of people's technology. Our guest is engineer Lee Felsenstein, who relates a story of activism and engineering.

Episode information

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1850 4 full Can a Programming Language be a Radical Community? Can a Programming Language be a Radical Community? https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/can-a-programming-language-be-a-radical-community/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/can-a-programming-language-be-a-radical-community/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:26:06 -0400 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/1a8733a7-c5dc-36ce-ac0b-80efb3b52074 p5.js is the name of a creative coding library and platform that aims to make coding inclusive and accessible for a wide range of people. We speak to the team that supports the language on how they make space for contributors within its nurturing, intentional community.

]]> p5.js is the name of a creative coding library and platform that aims to make coding inclusive and accessible for a wide range of people. We speak to the team that supports the language on how they make space for contributors within its nurturing, intentional community.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 1807 3 full Art, Tools, and Activism Art, Tools, and Activism https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/art-tools-and-activism/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/art-tools-and-activism/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:46:13 -0400 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/8d989729-9c61-3d4b-8502-32cd28c37eb0 In 2021 what it means to be an artist working with technology is wide open, and we're here to explore it in detail, especially looking at issues of creativity and equity. In today's episode we're talking about art and activism, toolbuilding and technology.

]]> In 2021 what it means to be an artist working with technology is wide open, and we're here to explore it in detail, especially looking at issues of creativity and equity. In today's episode we're talking about art and activism, toolbuilding and technology.

]]> artistsandhackers false No 2126 2 full Critical Code Critical Code https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/episode-1-critical-code/ https://artistsandhackers.podbean.com/e/episode-1-critical-code/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:32:46 -0300 artistsandhackers.podbean.com/1aca4d48-584e-3b32-bc53-fc68e9c1866f In this episode, we meet artists and hackers that aren't satisfied with the limitations of programming languages. Our guests are Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Ramsey Nasser, Daniel Temkin, and Anuoluwapo Karounwi.

]]> In this episode, we meet artists and hackers that aren't satisfied with the limitations of programming languages. Our guests are Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Ramsey Nasser, Daniel Temkin, and Anuoluwapo Karounwi.

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