Cathy Byrd

Fresh Art International

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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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Cathy Byrd

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Dec 31, 2025

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Episodes

Sounds of Berlin 20.07.2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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