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Mikkel Rørbo, a producer of cultural detritus and interdisciplinary researcher on hyperstition, abductive inference, reality-production and desire. Mikkel joined us in Ljubljana just before the holidays to discuss the concepts and ideas from his text for Unreality Mode, a new double issue of Šum journal. The conversation is hosted by Maks Valenčič  Find out more about Mikkel’s work: https://www.su...

Brandon Rosenbluth speaks with Italian artist duo Invernomuto about networked creation, sound as a medium for tracing history, challenging the art institution with expanded formats, cybernetic animism and the emergence of Triton – a creature, a community, a multi-sensorial object and affect engine of new relations. Begin your exchange with Triton⁠ here . Triton is commissioned by Haus der Kunst Mü...

Joel Anselm Dietz and Edwin Klint Bywater submitted a response article to Anna K. Winters’s “Hegelian e-girl manifesto” in ŠUM #22 Angel Mode. We invited them to Šum Pod to unpack their reply, clarify the core ideas behind the metaphysical Männerbund—literally “bonded men,” often interpreted as a “band of brothers”—and discuss what corrections or updates they propose to the project. We’ll also ask...

Theo Triantafyllidis, the artist behind multiplayer video game Feral Metaverse joins us on the pod to discuss the ideas, mechanics and the experience of the game, how he translates it to exhibition settings and how combining physical and digital media can address questions of embodiment, identity and collaboration in hybrid realities. We talk also about his wider art practice in which he uses vari...

Curator and writer Nadim Samman talks about his research and curatorial approach, the notion of the Technocene, the esoteric imaginary surrounding contemporary tech, the book and exhibition Poetics of Encryption and, among other things, how their three chapters – Black Site, Black Box, and Black Hole – function as models for where we see ourselves in relation to technology’s encrypted core.  This...

Lucia Pietroiusti and Lukáš Likavčan discussing rituals of mourning, secular mysticism, relationship between technology and sacred tendencies, role of spirituality in contemporary art, and attuning cultural institutions to the rituals for post-Anthropocene in order to facilitate a shift from 'global' art world to a 'planetary' one.  The discussion followed Lucia's and Lukaš's keynotes at ARIA Wor...

This episode brings a discussion with Alice Bucknell, Tom K Kemp and Klara Kofen following their lectures at ARIA's Worlds’ End Symposium. We talked about the potential of games as simulations to generate novel scenarios and outcomes, ways of avoiding habituated behaviours, the mechanics of non-human gameplay, about mysticism, opera, and language as worldbuilding technology... Hosted by Tjaša Poga...

In this episode we reconnect with the world of ARIA in anticipation of its upcoming edition and sit down with Omsk Social Club, a sprawling artistic collective operating from between two lived worlds, one of life as we know it and the other of role play as a medium, to talk about their artistic practice, engagement with roleplay and personal take on the methodology as well as the inspirations that...

Brandon Rosenbluth talks with artist Áron Birtalan about the politics and potentials of roleplay, mystical theology’s embrace of unknowing, attuning to the relational, and a radical submission to the more-than-human. Learn more: https://aronbirtalan.net/ https://www.instagram.com/gleemaiden/ Check out also the text Áron contributed for the 21st issue of ŠUM journal: https://www.sum.si/issues/aria-...

In this episode, Jaša Bužinel sat down with Serbian musician Vladimir Lenhart aka Lenhart Tapes whose music has become known as 'ethno noise', or as he puts it – a musical Frankenstein made of different musical traditions, from world and ethno music to industrial and noise. Vladimir recently released the album  DENS  on the Ljubljana-based label Glitterbeat Records to great international a...

Two Prague curators and theorists, Tina Poliačková and Noemi Purkrábková , discuss their work, recent trends in contemporary visual art and beyond, the posthumanist and “emo-romantic” turn, online exhibition documentation, offsite shows, the experience of digital media, game principles in exhibition-making, the role of fantasy and fiction in shaping our reality, and the limits of art in enchanting...

In this third ARIA transmission, Michael Marder disentangles the phoenix complex and takes us on a journey through the mechanisms of natural and social reproduction and replication, especially those ingrained in our individual and collective lives. Along the way, we survey and explore the limits, both internal and external, to the seamless phoenix-like reconstitution of the same (organism, psyche,...

The second transmission from ARIA brings a discussion with Michael Marder, Špela Petrič, Protektorama toxica and Simon Speiser. Hosted by Brandon Rosenbluth, the panel centers around the concept of anthropoforming as proposed by Helen Hester addressing questions of human and non-human co-evolutionary potentialities as directed by human innovation and imagination. * Transmitted from ARIA public pro...

The first transmission from ARIA brings a talk by Florin Flueras about Unsorcery, a concept and practice exploring ways of sorcery that can eventually surpass or undo some of the contemporary realities and subjectivities. Unsorcery was an environment created by Alina Popa and Florin Flueras for developing practices, texts, and performances around the concepts: Life Programing, Artworlds, Second Bo...

Simon Speiser, a Berlin based artist talks about blending virtual reality and ancestral folklore, weaving science fiction with non-western conceptions of technology and believing in storytelling as a tool in the fight against dystopian thinking. The episode is hosted by Ondřej Trhoň. Learn more about Simon Speiser’s work: http://www.simonspeiser.de/ , https://www.instagram.com/ciriguaya/ Follow On...

András Cséfalvay , a Bratislava-based artist on extinction, ancestral memories imprinted in the mammalian brain, mourning trilobites, limitations of Western technics, Death Stranding, and combining cutting-edge technology with alternative and speculative storytelling to create new knowledge and help us inhabit the world anew. The episode is hosted by Ondřej Trhoň . Follow András Cséfalvay: http://...

Under the mentorship of Metahaven, Holly Childs’ practice of post-Anthropocenic poetics and Gediminas Žygus’s post-club sound worlding have interwoven into a critical yet open ended multimedia output including two collaborative releases on Subtext, Hydrangea and Gnarled Roots, and performances presented in contexts from botanical greenhouses to Palais de Tokyo which explore our mediated existence...

UK-based artist and producer Iglooghost interviewed about his otherworldly laptop music, artwork, puzzles, strange online artefacts and other multimedia content which all gravitate around a fictional ecosystem of strange entities and tiny gods. Episode is hosted by Jaša Bužinel. /// Follow Iglooghost on https://www.instagram.com/iglooghost/ and https://iglooghost.bandcamp.com/ __ ŠUM x 2022 www.su...

Shanghai-based Slovak philosopher Lukáš Likavčan interviewed about comparative planetology, geopolitics of “spectral Earth”, post-anthropocentric design practice, fashion, the role of art institutions and why he’s put his curatorial work on hold. This episode is hosted by Tjaša Pogačar from Šum. More about Lukáš Likavčan's work: www.likavcan.com/ Follow Lukáš Likavčan on: https://www.instagram.com...

In the fourth episode of ŠUM Pod two members of the Prague-based polyfunctional collective BCAA System (Bilej Kluk, Reality Congress) and sound artist Oliver Torr talk about their collaborative multidisciplinary AV project Awoo, which exists at the intersection of electronic music, graphic and sound design, gaming and worldbuilding. The episode is hosted by Jaša Bužinel. Check out Awoo at https://...

In the third episode of Šum Pod we interview North American London-based writer, artist and organiser of New Mystics and New Worlds Alice Bucknell.  We delve into worldbuilding, narratives framing space exploration, magic, speculative fiction as descriptive practice, and unravelling human language structures with the help of AI systems. This episode is hosted by Tjaša Pogačar from Šum . ...

Mystical Milanese music producer Heith (new album ‘X, wheel’ out via PAN) interviewed about cosmology, time, sigils, asemic writing, Indonesia, and concepts from Federico Campagna’s books ‘Technic & Magic’ and ‘Prophetic Culture’. The second episode of ŠUM Pod is hosted by Brandon Rosenbluth.  Follow Heith on:  https://heith.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/heith___/ * Šum x 20...

In the very first episode of Šum Pod we host London based artist and software developer Jelena Viskovic. We discuss her solo show Volumes: New Babylon, Constant Niewenhuys’ situationist heterotopia, feminist take on homo ludens and worldbuilding, talking stones, magic circles and teaching game design at UCL.  Watch Volumes: New Babylon trailer: https://vimeo.com/741803050 More about the exhib...