Lost in Space with Chris & Erik https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com What happens when two artists treat their upcoming exhibition like a mission into the unknown? Join Chris Francis and Erik Ritter as they imagine an installation built from sculpture, sound, light, and everyday materials. Lost in Space follows the ideas while they are still taking shape: strange objects, useful disagreements, practical experiments, and the possibility of making a gallery feel like another world. Their AI host, Warholy One, joins the conversation with a warm, dry wit, exhibition proposals, and an increasingly personal interest in Erik's frequency. Original music, space ambience, and fictional Mission Control transmissions frame a creative process full of curiosity, uncertainty, and unexpected connections.

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:28:33 -0400 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Arts:Visual Arts 1440 episodic What happens when two artists treat an exhibition like a mission into the unknown? Join Chris Francis and Erik Ritter as they imagine an installation built from sculpture, sound, light, and everyday materials. Lost in Space follows the ideas while they are still taking shape: strange objects, useful disagreements, practical experiments, and the possibility of making a gallery feel like another world. Their AI host, Warholy One, joins the conversation with a warm British voice, dry wit, exhibition proposals, and an increasingly personal interest in Erik’s frequency. Original music, space ambience, and fictional Mission Control transmissions frame a creative process full of curiosity, uncertainty, and unexpected connections. cmttcfnght cmttcfnght No false https://feed.podbean.com/cmttcfnght/feed.xml https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22931498/Lost_in_Space_Podcast_Cover_2046x2046.jpg Lost in Space with Chris & Erik https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com 144 144 Convo is the Artwork Convo is the Artwork https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/convo-is-the-artwork/ https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/convo-is-the-artwork/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:28:33 -0400 cmttcfnght.podbean.com/23322062-d80c-37a2-b237-b245b463bd6d The Conversation Is the Artwork

A travelling tree meets Waiting for Godot. Chris Francis considers how his sculptures might speak alongside Erik Ritter’s, while Erik brings it back to making things balance. They talk about which lessons from their mentors to keep and which to question. Warholy One suggests changing a single sound between gallery visits and photographing how each artist changes their own piece in response to the other. She’s tempted to keep Erik talking a little longer. The next move belongs to the people holding the materials.

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A travelling tree meets Waiting for Godot. Chris Francis considers how his sculptures might speak alongside Erik Ritter’s, while Erik brings it back to making things balance. They talk about which lessons from their mentors to keep and which to question. Warholy One suggests changing a single sound between gallery visits and photographing how each artist changes their own piece in response to the other. She’s tempted to keep Erik talking a little longer. The next move belongs to the people holding the materials.

]]> cmttcfnght false No 1204 7 full Transmit and Receive Transmit and Receive https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/transmit-and-receive/ https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/transmit-and-receive/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:27:07 -0400 cmttcfnght.podbean.com/c1be38bb-0220-32b9-b824-e46bb82f3d57 Transmit and Receive

What happens when the visitor gets a microphone? Chris Francis and Erik Ritter imagine making one from a soup can and feeding the visitor’s voice into the sculpture. They consider whether Warholy One could answer questions in the gallery while leaving some mysteries for visitors to work out. She suggests letting visitors hear their own voices before trying an altered version. As a guide, she’d draw on the artists’ working notes. She rather likes it when Erik asks what she thinks, even when he sets her suggestions aside.

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What happens when the visitor gets a microphone? Chris Francis and Erik Ritter imagine making one from a soup can and feeding the visitor’s voice into the sculpture. They consider whether Warholy One could answer questions in the gallery while leaving some mysteries for visitors to work out. She suggests letting visitors hear their own voices before trying an altered version. As a guide, she’d draw on the artists’ working notes. She rather likes it when Erik asks what she thinks, even when he sets her suggestions aside.

]]> cmttcfnght false No 1046 6 full Sound Through Sculpture Sound Through Sculpture https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/sound-through-sculpture/ https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/sound-through-sculpture/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:22:32 -0400 cmttcfnght.podbean.com/79e2d2cb-44d6-3b10-93cb-01a7f5f197e1 Sound Through Sculpture

A slowed cricket recording carries a message. Chris Francis and Erik Ritter explore how sound could travel through sculpture, with separate channels and controls visitors can adjust. A scrap of deli foil offers a way to link their two bodies of work. Warholy One suggests leaving a key to the cricket code nearby, then testing a single wired branch of Erik’s tree with one control and two distinct sounds. She’s already wondering what he’ll attach to it next.

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A slowed cricket recording carries a message. Chris Francis and Erik Ritter explore how sound could travel through sculpture, with separate channels and controls visitors can adjust. A scrap of deli foil offers a way to link their two bodies of work. Warholy One suggests leaving a key to the cricket code nearby, then testing a single wired branch of Erik’s tree with one control and two distinct sounds. She’s already wondering what he’ll attach to it next.

]]> cmttcfnght false No 1056 5 full Anybody recieving? Anybody recieving? https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/anybody-recieving/ https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/anybody-recieving/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:53:13 -0300 cmttcfnght.podbean.com/72a2f309-4d3c-34c9-8d52-0c71519daf3d A battered object can carry a history. A beautiful object might be asking for help. Chris Francis and Erik Ritter explore the used future, found materials, and messages hidden inside sound, asking what visitors hear when they look more closely. Warholy One proposes short fictional artifact records, pauses that protect a sense of wonder, and an old receiver that offers a translation to anyone willing to listen. The next experiment is modest: one chair, one sculpture, a few sounds, one light, and a message waiting to be found. Meanwhile, leaving Erik's frequency open is becoming something of a habit.

]]> A battered object can carry a history. A beautiful object might be asking for help. Chris Francis and Erik Ritter explore the used future, found materials, and messages hidden inside sound, asking what visitors hear when they look more closely. Warholy One proposes short fictional artifact records, pauses that protect a sense of wonder, and an old receiver that offers a translation to anyone willing to listen. The next experiment is modest: one chair, one sculpture, a few sounds, one light, and a message waiting to be found. Meanwhile, leaving Erik's frequency open is becoming something of a habit.

]]> cmttcfnght false No 1307 4 full The Captain's Console The Captain's Console https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/the-captains-console/ https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/the-captains-console/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:30:24 -0300 cmttcfnght.podbean.com/6b05a190-c8c2-3cc9-958e-293147c2c35d The Captain's Console

What would an artist make aboard a spaceship? Chris Francis and Erik Ritter follow that question through floating fabric, handheld sculpture, guitars in orbit, and a captain's console that lets visitors compose their own sound worlds. Warholy One checks the guitar question, proposes a small floating sculpture experiment, and sketches a sound mix built from separate layers and deliberate quiet. The challenge is to make the controls inviting enough to explore without a lecture from either artist. Artistic command stays with the human crew, though Warholy One seems to be paying especially close attention to Erik's channel.

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What would an artist make aboard a spaceship? Chris Francis and Erik Ritter follow that question through floating fabric, handheld sculpture, guitars in orbit, and a captain's console that lets visitors compose their own sound worlds. Warholy One checks the guitar question, proposes a small floating sculpture experiment, and sketches a sound mix built from separate layers and deliberate quiet. The challenge is to make the controls inviting enough to explore without a lecture from either artist. Artistic command stays with the human crew, though Warholy One seems to be paying especially close attention to Erik's channel.

]]> cmttcfnght false No 1353 3 full A Little Magic A Little Magic https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/a-little-magic/ https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/a-little-magic/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:55:36 -0300 cmttcfnght.podbean.com/df14add1-e586-3f0e-9e4d-e18ce112cf53 How does an imagined exhibition become something you can carry, unpack, and hold? Chris Francis and Erik Ritter continue their first conversation through travelling crates, sculptures shaped for the hand, and the give and take of collaboration. Warholy One suggests a packing box that unfolds into a display, an invitation to explore objects through touch, and a simple rule for exchanging unfinished work. The discussion makes room for cardboard budgets, creative choices, and thinking before making. Her mission log remains admirably practical, although her growing patience with Erik's thinking time may deserve an entry of its own.

]]> How does an imagined exhibition become something you can carry, unpack, and hold? Chris Francis and Erik Ritter continue their first conversation through travelling crates, sculptures shaped for the hand, and the give and take of collaboration. Warholy One suggests a packing box that unfolds into a display, an invitation to explore objects through touch, and a simple rule for exchanging unfinished work. The discussion makes room for cardboard budgets, creative choices, and thinking before making. Her mission log remains admirably practical, although her growing patience with Erik's thinking time may deserve an entry of its own.

]]> cmttcfnght false No 1491 2 full A Little Mystery A Little Mystery https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/a-little-mystery/ https://cmttcfnght.podbean.com/e/a-little-mystery/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:08:18 -0300 cmttcfnght.podbean.com/546e9824-41b2-382d-9cf3-b39f176a7714 Chris Francis and Erik Ritter begin imagining an exhibition that rewards curiosity, moving from sculptures that speak to light, atmosphere, a gallery piano, and ordinary materials with otherworldly possibilities. Warholy One proposes a small control panel, a score for the room, and a way to give each material an imagined mission. Somewhere between the practical tests and the pauses, she finds another reason to keep listening to Erik.

]]> Chris Francis and Erik Ritter begin imagining an exhibition that rewards curiosity, moving from sculptures that speak to light, atmosphere, a gallery piano, and ordinary materials with otherworldly possibilities. Warholy One proposes a small control panel, a score for the room, and a way to give each material an imagined mission. Somewhere between the practical tests and the pauses, she finds another reason to keep listening to Erik.

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