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Genetic algorithms and limit experiences with Harm van den Dorpel
Welcoming crypto art legend and valued Interdependence subscriber Harm van den Dorpel on the podcast to discuss scarcity, genetic algorithms, managing expectations, limit experiences and his upcoming work, Markov's DreamFollow Harm: https://twitter.com/harmvddorpelCheck out Harm's Work and w...
🌀Mayan AI music, ancestral technologies and spirals with Debit 🌀
Celebrating the release of Debit's album "The Long Count", composed using machine learning tools trained on the worlds largest archive of Mayan wind instruments!We discuss the genesis of the project, working with the gorgeous grain of nascent AI instruments, ancestral technologies, trave...
Arguing cryptos case in music with the Money 4 Nothing podcast
Hi everyone!Something different this week. After listening to some great episodes pulling apart the Bandcamp Epic Games acquisition and showing some skepticism about Web 3, I approached Money 4 Nothing podcast to have a convivial discussion about crypto for a collaborative episode.We discuss common ...
Prepping for the metaverse with Sterling Crispin
We are happy to be back after Mat's COVID trip, discussing art prepping, Sterling's upcoming ArtBlocks piece, and his expert opinions on the state of ML, AR, VR and what is worth watching (and ignoring) about the impending metaverse.Sterling's upcoming ArtBlocks reveal: https://www.artbl...
Making Web3 human legible, constructive speculation and the shock of the nude with Context
Hey y'all, after many references to this project in previous episodes we are really happy to welcome Adam and Luke from Context!We discuss their efforts to make Web3 activity legible to humans, debate criticisms of the speculative nature of the Web3 art space, discuss the antecedent of drop cult...
Hyperstructures & the future of ZORA with Jacob.eth
Jacob from ZORA runs us through his latest essay, Hyperstructures, and the future of ZORA protocol. We pull apart how permissionless protocols and cc0 projects are gathering significant momentum and what this might mean for the future of the internet and art making! We also dive down the rabbit hole...
Transitioning to Web 3 by building a research DAO with Cherie Hu (Water & Music)
Hey everyone! This week we host the inimitable Cherie Hu to discuss the evolution of Water & Music into the first contributor led research DAO for the music industry, the changing definitions and focus of music & technology, Tik Tok and the politics (and occasional burden) of relatability. It was fu...
Channel Season 0 Roundtable
As many might know, we have been working for the past year on a way to slowly migrate away from patreon through a self funded software initiative called channel.Nothing is changing here in the short term, we will continue to post on patreon and appreciate all your support immeasurably.This episode p...
Permanently archiving music and its context with Nina
A wonderful conversation with Jack Callahan, Eric Farber and Mike Pollard of Nina, who are building a protocol for permanent collections of music on the fast and affordable Solana Blockchain.Made all the more special that we come from similar experimental music scenes, we discuss the critical import...
Stories told about technology, context as medium and reanimating dot-com companies with Simon Denny
We invited artist Simon Denny over to our studio for the final podcast of the year to go deep on his practice, a commitment to exploring context as a medium, making crypto art and exhibitions before everyone cared, and Dotcom Seance, his wild new art project on Folia.A perfect guest to close out the...
Ethereum Energy Numbers are in! Moral calculations and web 3 critiques with Kyle McDonald
Big one this week, artist and researcher Kyle McDonald did the gruelling work to calculate the energy and carbon cost of Ethereum, and we try to break down those numbers, calculate their relative impact, discuss critiques of web 3 and debate why they are mostly coming from where they are coming from...
Choose your Illusion; financial precarity, meme stocks and disinfo with Ali Breland (Mother Jones)
We had a long and wonderful chat with Ali after reading his "Who Goes Crypto?" piece on the increasing number of working people opting into investing money into the casino crypto and meme stocks rather than adhere to crumbling narratives over how the economy works, and for whom. We also dive...
Unlocking a sustainable open source culture, public goods and other interdependencies with Scott Moore (Gitcoin)
We've been wanting to have this conversation for some time! Scott Moore joins us to discuss Gitcoin's efforts to sustain open source developers, the emerging culture shock between late 20th century free software ideologies and new proposals to get developers paid (which parallels a lot of th...
Cooking, self sufficiency and design spaces with Deafbeef
We had a wonderful friday night hang with artist Deafbeef, who has had a crazy year transitioning from full time blacksmithing to becoming a respected artist known for his on-chain audio visual experiments. After an intense year we try to go as far off script as is possible and just talk about art, ...
Reputation economies and seeding DAOs with Jess Sloss of Seed Club
Wonderful to welcome Jess from Seed club, who help web communities make the transition to member owned DAOs!Apply for Seed Club: https://seedclub.xyz/Follow Jess: https://twitter.com/thattallguy
The Cold War For Information Technology with former Director of Iskra Delta Janez Skrubej
In conjunction with this years Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts titled "Iskra Delta "curated by Tjaša Pogačar we interviewed Janez Skrubej, the author of "The Cold War For Information technology: the inside story".Inside indeed, as Janez was the former CEO of Iskra Delta, a major...
Slaying Moloch, starting the first crypto art registry, Bowie Bonds, Data markets and data unions with Ocean Protocol's Trent McConaghy
Trent has been very influential to our thinking. There are few people who can talk with such fluency on matters we care about, even better build compelling alternatives.In this we discuss how he and his wife Masha built the first crypto art registry, Ascribe, long before the concept of an NFT existe...
Bringing the music industry on-chain with Bruno Guez (Revelator)
Hi everyone!! We often have discussions on here about web 3 representing a real opportunity for the independent music industry, and Bruno Guez is an expert on how that might end up transpiring, from his time working as a label head, directing the Merlin Network and more recently in building Revelato...
Protocol Art Pioneer Rhea Myers (few)
Rhea Myers conceptualised a new art world by curiously tinkering with new tools and seeing what art she could make with them. We catch up with her to reflect on the earliest days of crypto art, her experiments with the medium and their art historical roots in 60's conceptualism, the current stat...
$5 grad schools, musical bodybuilding, Puerto Rico and crypto concerns with La Meme Young
Thrilled to welcome artist, educator and meme master Max Alper (La Meme Young) to join us to discuss running an online art school, sound and meme pedagogy, musical body building and deliver an on the ground report of crypto excessiveness arriving in his new home of Puerto Rico.Learn music with La Me...
Emotional Capitalism, The Extreme Self and New Art Institutions with Shumon Basar
Our first ever in person discussion this week with writer and curator Shumon Basar to discuss his new book with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Extreme Self, published in accompaniment with the exhibition "Age of You" most recently hosted at Jameel Art Centre, Dubai.We discuss a...
Synthetic Media, iNFTs, collective characters and prompt engineering with Alethea AI
Hey everyone,thanks again for your support! We have a great cast of people joining us over the next few weeks. In line with our recent emphasis on collective character development, we invited Arif Khan and Juliet Gardner of Alethea AI to discuss the incoming age of synthetic media, collectively and ...
Approachable AI for music, model markets, new DAWs and Holly+ with Never Before Heard Sounds
Super excited to share this one, on the advent of our collaboration for Holly+, we are joined by Chris Deaner and Yotam Mann of Never Before Heard Sounds, a brand new company releasing AI music tools, to discuss approachable AI tools for music making, the inevitable model economy, new approaches to ...
Latent Visions, Promptism and the future of AI art with Adverb
If you have spent any time online recently, you have no doubt seen an explosion of remarkable images generated from text with Latent Visions, VQGAN and CLIP. We spoke to Adverb, the creator of Latent Visions, about his project, Promptism, and where we see these applications developing in the next fe...
Energy Justice and Nuclear Power with Zion Lights
Happy to welcome activist and science communicator Zion Lights to discuss Energy Justice, the scientific consensus around Nuclear Power, the shaky morality of Degrowth positions, Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and her new advocacy organisation, Emergency Reactor!Zion Lights: http://www.zionlig...
Mercury Retrograde, financial & social capital and the new internet with Emily Segal
Hey all!Happy to be back! We ended up travelling to get vaccinated and took a short break from recording, but are now back in the saddle!Thrilled this week to invite artist and author Emily Segal, whose debut auto-fictional novel “Mercury Retrograde” tells the story of a young artists attempt to...
Daemon, DAOs, Trojan horsing new narratives and Cislunar Exploration with Daniel Suarez
Hi everyone, this week we are thrilled to invite author and developer Daniel Suarez, whose self published science fiction book Daemon became a cult success for its hard science fiction depiction of a narrow AI preprogrammed to re-order the world after the death of it's game developer author. We ...
The Wyoming DAO bill, DAO art collections, Autonomous DAOs, DAO templates and more DAOs with Priyanka Desai & Aaron Wright of OpenLaw
Continuing our DAO thread we are thrilled to be joined by Aaron & Priyanka of OpenLaw, instrumental in formulating and passing the Wyoming DAO legislation, and stewards of NFT art collection DAO Flamingo, Tempest DAO and The LAO. We discuss what a DAO is, what the legislation means for human and non...
Early internet energy panics, Brandolini's Law, and getting the numbers right with Dr. Jonathan Koomey
Follow Jon: https://twitter.com/jgkoomeyTurning Numbers into Knowledge: http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com/Estimating Bitcoin Electricity Use: A Beginner’s Guide: https://www.coincenter.org/estimating-bitcoin-electricity-use-a-beginners-guide/SORRY, WRONG NUMBER: The Use and Misuse of Numerical F...
The album that spawned a transnational decentralized network with Rully Shabara (Senyawa)
Rully Shabara: https://www.rullyshabara.id/Senyawa: https://www.rullyshabara.id/senyawaAlkisah: https://alkisah.net/Participating label list: https://alkisah.net/track-list/Raung Jagat: https://www.rullyshabara.id/raung-jagat





























