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David Turner shares some of the most insightful and thorough analyses on the music industry through his Penny Fractions newsletter.  We link up to discuss the current state of streaming, his skepticism about much of crypto, and his positive perspective on the regular recycling of the 20th century in popular culture. Sub to Penny Fractions: https://pennyfractions.ghost.io/   Follow Penny Fractions:...

Deep internet A-listers Holly (@holyyyycow) and David Yoakum (@davidy) join NM for the only podcast about Remilia Co.’s ill-famed PFP NFT project you actually need to listen to. From 4chan to Kali/acc, Charlotte Fang to Ryder Ripps, we bring you this niche history so you can judge for yourself how the social web is re-aligning in 2022. Plus: new aesthetics, young girls, and Urbit x No Agency devir...

Cultural savants Shumon Basar (The Extreme Self & The Age of Earthquakes) and Dean Kissick (NY editor of Spike Art Magazine) join the show during Berlin Art Week for a sprawling, late-night convo on communication and creative production in year 2022. Along the way, we note the accelerating pace of decades, revisit Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 mass-media glow-up, log a veritable dictionary of neologisms...

Audio from the live event: June 6th 2022 at New Museum in NYC. Buy the book (direct link): https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/9534669/716219b59180600693f98dda95d2c5ba49427e23   Thank you to Michael Conner from Rhizome. https://www.instagram.com/rhizomedotorg/   Thank you to Lauren Boyle from Dis. https://www.instagram.com/dis/   https://dis.art/   https://www.instagram.com/everythingbutthewor...

Celebrating the release of his first book "Greenpilled: How Crypto Can Regenerate The World" we welcome Kevin Owocki to discuss regenerative crypto-economics, doomer optimism,  impact DAO's, public goods and crypto's relationship to the state . Buy Greenpilled and take the pledge: https://greenpill.party/#book Sub to The Green Pill Podcast: https://availableon.com/greenpill Follow Kevin: https://t...

Anil is one of our favorite thinkers on AI. To celebrate the advent of Anil's debut book "Logiciel: Six Seminars on Computational Reason", we try and pick apart some high level concepts on reason and computation,  and discuss why recent deep learning breakthroughs may require a break from traditional conceptions of what we consider to be intelligence. Follow Anil: https://twitter.com/cavvia   The...

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, an estimated 24 million dollars helped to fund 20 newly established art centers throughout eastern Europe. The SCCA mission was to archive “unofficial art” (works that were previously unrecognized by the authoritarian state) and to cultivate a new form of avant garde contemporary art with curious political overtones. Follow Aaron: https://www.instagram.com/a...

Wonderful to catch up with DDSP co-author Hanoi Hantrakul, whose practice considers transcultural exchange using new technologies from machine learning to 3d printing. We discuss his contribution to the 2022 AI song contest, his VST plugin developed in his new role at Tik Tok, and the fascinating challenge of fair and generative ways to interact with deep cultural traditions in the context of AI. ...

I visit NYC based artist Rachel Rossin to discuss new technologies, creative practice and keeping the light alive. follow Rachel: www.instagram.com/rachelrossin twitter.com/rachelrossin see her work: www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/…ensea-1234609589/ youtu.be/xYE-G0lB8zI

We sit down with Sound.xyz founder David Greenstein to discuss the many different experiments and approaches happening to revalue music within the Ethereum ecosystem, touching on Spotify, TikTok and the traditional music industry in contrast. Full disclosure, we contributed a small sum to Sound's seed investment round.  Follow David: https://twitter.com/dgreenstein1   Follow Sound: https://twitter...

Our favorite projects at the moment are finding ways to harness the generative potential of Discord communities to coordinate ambitious projects, and what THE FRINGE are building is remarkable. Already having created a bespoke successful Sci-Fi universe with their debut film PROSPECT, they are turning to Web 3 to build a more expansive, co-created and ultimately fair way to create movies.  Really...

Nik calls in from lock-down in Shanghai to talk art, aesthetics and nutrition. Find his work at: https://www.instagram.com/nikkosmas/ https://kosmas.systems/shop https://twitter.com/NikKosmas

NM speaks with Kevin Driscoll, author of The Modem World: A Pre-history of Social Media (Yale Univ. Press, 2022), which examines the physical — and social — technology that underpinned the DIY side of networked technology’s evolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Parallel to institutional network culture were the proto-dark-forest communities of BBS networks and other pre-www systems. From FidoNet to De D...

With our roadmap ready to drop, the Channel team sat down earlier this week to chat recent web3 developments and Channel’s position therein — a conversation that previews what’s to come this year; plus: Holly & Mat’s TED insights, the turning-toward-web3 of web2 titans, a recap of DNR’s expansive 40-artist show, the false pretenses of harm-reduction discourse, landladies-in-waiting, and “ spie...

Scholar of media studies and Chernobyl expert Svitlana Matviyenko joins us from Kamyanets Podilskyi, Ukraine to discuss critical infrastructure security and the imminence of cyberwarfare. On this episode, Svitlana, who is also the co-author of Cyberwar & Revolution: Digital Subterfuge of Global Capitalism (U. Minnesota Press, 2020) gives an expanded definition of “cybernetic warfare” and what she...

The Channel team sat down earlier this week to chat recent developments, preview whats to come this year, recap DNR’s expansive 40-artist show and the riff on the "choose your illusion" map of today's social media. We’ve been grinding hard on Season 1. Stay tuned for some big announcements. https://www.channel.xyz/ https://twitter.com/channel https://twitter.com/newmodels_io https://twitter.com/1n...

Wonderful to chat with Brett Scott in advance of his new book "Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for Our Wallets" (Penguin) about the creeping incursions of cashlessness, the naivety of crypto and why cash is maybe worth keeping around! Follow Brett: https://twitter.com/Suitpossum   Preorder "Cloudmoney": https://www.amazon.com/Cloudmoney-Cash-Cards-Crypto-Wallets-ebook/dp/B09HSBDLKG   S...

After a short enforced break we are back to chat with one of the most exciting projects in the music and crypto field, Songcamp, and the world's first headless band, Chaos. Camp Chaos: https://www.chaos.build/   Songcamp: https://songcamp.mirror.xyz/   Follow Mark: https://twitter.com/markredito   Follow Matthew: https://twitter.com/matthewchaim   Follow Songcamp: https://twitter.com/songcamp_   F...

Nick Srnicek is a lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (2016) and Inventing the Future (2015) with co-author Alex Williams. @n_srnck twitter.com/n_srnck

One of the great millennial club demons, DJ and producer Dances With White Girls (aka Frog) talks to NM about the ever evolving relationship between artists and platforms, from Hollerboard to TikTok. We also talk how AI music software is changing the game, pop-up scenes, and PLUR black tie. Plus: Frog’s 12 Rules for Club Life. Twitter: @dances New Release: Repopulate Mars presents The Arrival Subs...

The Channel creators - Joshua Citarella, Interdependence (Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst), and New Models (Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, Lil Internet) - are joined by CEO (!) Duncan Wilson to share an update, a recap of ETHDenver, a story about Beeple among trad-art power players, and a theory about the "Rorschach terms" driving Web 3 debates.

Taking the orange pill, gamer-bait, elites without institutions, the  “Declaration of Monetary Independence” (lol). Sean calls into the stream to share some reflections on the recent Bitcoin Miami. https://twitter.com/8ball_sean https://www.8ball.report/

Writer and researcher Sam Moore speaks about his new book, with Alex Roberts, THE RISE of ECOFASCISM: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FAR RIGHT (Polity, 2022), which finds, in the dissolution of pre-millennial frameworks for climate, capital, and governance, conditions that are ripe for the re-emergence of fascist formulations of power. We talk to Sam about the interface between humans and the natural worl...

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 Dream Follow Harm: https://twitter.com/harmvddorpel   Check out Harm's Work and writing: https://harm.work/   Check out Markov's Dream: https://harm.work/work/markovs-dream   Chemsex Be...