Cathy Byrd
Fresh Art International
Writer/curator Cathy Byrd sparks conversations with culture makers from around the world for our podcast. Our professionally produced podcast synthesizes voices, field recordings, and rich sound effects to inform and inspire each conversation. Keeping in mind both the expert and the novice in contemporary art, we promote and support public access and awareness of the arts through our free digital archive of more than 300 episodes. Cathy and her team are committed to curating informed, balanced and diverse stories through the lens of today’s art, film and design. Since 2011, Fresh Art Internati...
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Dec 31, 2025
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Episodes
Sounds of Berlin 20.07.2017 45:26
In this sonic experience of Berlin, hear drummers performing in the Karneval der Kulturen and experience the music scene in Mauer Park . Learn about the sound art featured on Deutschlandfunk Kultur from curator Marcus Gammel . Meet Ahmet Ögüt , one of the hosts on the documenta 14 radio program coming to Berlin. Visit the studio of artist and musician Satch Hoyt and listen to his Unpac...
Encounters with FAT Village Arts District 12.07.2017 58:32
Join us for our latest Destination Fresh Art adventure to Flagler Arts & Technology Village aka FAT Village Arts District ! To set the stage, listen to our conversation with artist and editor Sharon Louden about the role of artists in creating communities. In the studio, we speak to Neil Ramsay, Director of ArtsUp! Concepts , a not-for-profit space dedicated to presenting experimental art...
Alexa Lim Haas on Animating Stories 06.07.2017 9:34
Artist Alexa Lim Haas talks about Agua Viva , her newest animated short film. Agua Viva was among the twenty-four projects selected for a special one-night screening at the 2017 Borscht Film Festival in Miami, Florida.
Sounds of Contemporary Art in Norway 22.06.2017 42:35
Our field recordings of conversations, performances and sound art in Oslo and Tromsø, Norway, during the 2017 International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) Congress hosted by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and OSLO PILOT .
The Art of the Eclipse 09.06.2017 1:01:08
The Art of the Eclipse celebrates the phenomenal event that unfolded before our eyes on August 21, 2017, and explores the connection between art and science at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science , in Miami, Florida. Dr. Jorge Perez-Gallego , Curator of Astronomy at the Frost Science Museum calls in to tell stories of his eclipse-viewing adventure outside Madras, Oregon. We share th...
Sounds of the 57th Venice Art Biennale 08.06.2017 43:34
Our sound experience of the 57th Venice Art Biennale features field recordings of conversations, sound art and performance from Egypt, France, Germany, Nigeria and the U.S.
Live from Athens on Cannibal Radio 25.05.2017 39:23
Live streaming from Cannibal Radio in Athens, Greece, we introduce you to four of the city’s young culture makers. My co-hosts are Rena Bak and Simos Ares , two of the independent radio station’s forty producers. They both specialize in electronic music. Joining us in the studio are two Athens residents involved with documenta 14 , the international art exhibition presented every five years...
Live from Athens on Cannibal Radio 25.05.2017 39:23
Live streaming from Cannibal Radio in Athens, Greece, we introduce you to four of the city's young culture makers. Rena Bak and Simos Ares are producers at the independent radio station. Curator Katerina Nikou and filmmaker Nikos Nikolopoulos are involved with the international art exhibition documenta 14 .
Carolee Schneemann on Fearless Artmaking 11.05.2017 11:25
Carolee Schneemann talks about painting, performance, censorship and resistance in a telephone conversation recorded just days before she receives the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the opening of the 57th Venice Art Biennale . Featured performance audio: Interior Scroll, The Cave, 1995, courtesy Carolee Schneemann and Electronic Arts Intermix http://eai.org
The Future of Art 03.05.2017 54:37
Welcome to the Future of Art! We begin to talk about technologies that are transforming our global art eco-system—from art making to art history, from community engagement to collecting, and more. Art Seeker founder and art collector, Helene Lamarque , along with Emmanuel Trenche, product marketing manager, share how Art Seeker is disrupting the art market by bringing art buyers and sellers toge...
Marcus Gammel on Every Time A Ear Di Soun 27.04.2017 13:00
Marcus Gammel , with Deutschlandradio Kultur , talks about Every Time A Ear Di Soun , an exciting radio program he co-curated with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung for the documenta 14 art exhibition in Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany, from April to September 2017.
Spring Contemporary 2017 at Miami's Deering Estate 19.04.2017 55:21
Live streaming our radio show from the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami , we delve into the Deering Estate , where contemporary art meets nature, history, science and new technologies. Our show begins with a conversation that Cathy Byrd recorded in Havana with artist Mary Mattingly about Pull , a project Ms. Mattingly realized through the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Museo Nacional de Bellas...
Patricia Cronin on Making Art History 13.04.2017 8:40
New York-based artist Patricia Cronin talks about women, power and sexuality inside her Tack Room installation at the 2017 Armory Show . Her reprise of the immersive environment she exhibited 20 years ago sparks this conversation about feminist issues, politics, and the artist's resolve to represent untold stories about women.
Borscht Film Festival at 10 05.04.2017 1:03:23
On this live streaming show, we hold a post-mortem review of Borscht Diez (AKA Borscht 10), the Borscht Corporation ‘s tenth film festival in Miami, Florida. Our conversations introduce the collective energy behind the city’s homegrown film culture and explore a selection of the 2017 festival screenings and special events. With us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami , are local filmmakers Luca...
Nato Thompson on Culture as Weapon 30.03.2017 10:41
Nato Thompson , curator and critical writer, talks about his new book Culture as Weapon , and how politicians, corporations and artists use cultural aesthetics to channel their agendas and motivate collective actions.
Creativity in Miami's Public Realm 22.03.2017 1:07:00
Come with us to explore creativity in the public realm through the lens of Miami’s Public Space Challenge, an annual grant opportunity that invites residents to propose creative projects for their neighborhoods. You’ll hear how art installations, architectural interventions, and inventive public performance projects can transform a parking space, a building, a park, and more. Joining us in the stu...
Occupy Museums on Artists and Debt 17.03.2017 15:38
Occupy Museums is the artist collective behind Debtfair , a project in the 2017 Whitney Biennial . In a national call, they invited artists to answer the question: "How does your economic reality affect your art?" Their 30-foot wall installation exposes the complex and obscure financial systems that lie just beneath the surface of the art scene in the United States.
Miami's 21st Century Radio World 08.03.2017 58:34
Join our 21st century radio show adventure as we hear from Roman Mars about what inspired him to create 99% Invisible , a radio show and podcast series featuring architecture and design. In this episode of our live streaming radio show, meet the players presenting The Wolfsonian-FIU ‘s first RadioFest , sharing the voices of local radio journalism, playwriting, and rehearsals for two of the r...
Sharon Louden on The Artist as Culture Producer 28.02.2017 8:25
Sharon Louden artist and educator and Hrag Vartanian , co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online art publication Hyperallergic, talk about Louden's newest book project: The Artist as Culture Producer . Forty visual artists contributed essays to the four hundred page publication. These individuals model some of the ways that culture makers of the 21st century are enriching creative economies ar...
Contemporary Black Portraiture 22.02.2017 55:38
Our radio show on contemporary black portraiture explores The Dandy Lion Project , a traveling exhibition project featuring the images of emerging photographers and filmmakers from various regions around the African Diaspora. You’ll hear from Amy Sherald on Black Art and New Racial Narratives before a live audience at moniquemeloche gallery in Chicago. In studio, The Dandy Lion Project Founde...
Jorge Menna Barreto on Environmental Sculpture 16.02.2017 8:44
Brazilian artist Jorge Menna Barreto created Restauro , or Restoration, an eco-sensitive café within the pavilion that houses the 32nd São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. In partnership with local chefs and farmers, he encourages awareness about the way we use our land and the global consequences of how we eat. The entire project is an environmental sculpture. Sound editor: Guney Ozsan
An Artist Residency in the Everglades 08.02.2017 1:01:39
Join us as we explore South Florida residency programs. We begin with conversations recorded during our 2015 visit to the Studios of Key West. Learn about the Knight Arts Challenge grants for residency programs and more, from Director of Arts Bahia Ramos. Executive Director Deborah Mitchell introduces Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE). Meet past fellow and musician Jose Elias and hear our...
Bahar Behbahani on Politics and Persian Gardens 02.02.2017 13:53
Iranian born, New York based artist Bahar Behbahani talks about the layers of poetry and politics she discovered while researching the legendary Persian garden. Her solo exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College reveals how the idyllic refuge became entangled with American espionage and a 1953 political coup in Iran. Highly relevant considering the mounting intensity of today's g...
A City Symphony for Miami 25.01.2017 50:37
Art with a sense of place is at the center of our show. To set the stage, hear about art throughout the magic city of Miami. We start with Franky Cruz’s butterfly project at Spinello Projects . Next, Hattie Mae Williams ‘s use the Miami Marine Stadium as the backdrop for her Tattooed Ballerinas . Finally, we focus on Project 305 which invites people across Miami to submit sounds and images...
Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum 19.01.2017 17:56
With curator Catherine Morris, we talk about A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum. The brilliant series of thematic exhibitions and programs on feminism and feminist art celebrates the 10th anniversary of Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, , a groundbreaking installation in the Brooklyn Museum collection, inspires this complex...
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