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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. Ethereum Emissions: https://kylemcdonald.github.io/ethereum-emissions/   Kyle's art: https://kylem...

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 into an area of his expertise, online disinformation and it's political ramifications.  Holly dips out half...

I visited Brad in his studio to talk about art, platforms and political speech. https://www.instagram.com/bradtroemel/?hl=en https://www.patreon.com/bst https://twitter.com/BradTroemel

Over the past year, speculation has surged beyond business media to emerge as a broad-spectrum cultural theme — think Gamestop, Robinhood, tokenized communities, the rise of NFT art. Reflecting on this phenomenon, NM speaks with the gonzo art world/ art market reporter behind @jerrygogosian, artist HILDE LYNN HELPHENSTEIN as well as MATTHEW CAPASSO, formerly of Christies and now director of Fairch...

Caleb Cain discusses radical pipelines, counter-messaging, game theory and political factions. www.youtube.com/c/FaradaySpeaks/videos twitter.com/faradayspeaks?lang=en www.patreon.com/Faradayspeaks

We are joined by the guardian angel of New Models' digital presence, designer and developer JON LUCAS. With clients ranging from PIN-UP magazine to Bjarne Melgaard to SOPHIE (†), Jon shares with us reflections on his practice at large, as well as the origins and future of https://newmodels.io For more: jon-l.com @jonlucaswebites

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 the culture shock happening in the art and music world rn), discuss the role crypto may play in funding and su...

Artist and composer ADR (Aaron David Ross) stops by NM on the occasion of his new album, Filter Failure and launch of his label with Gatekeeper partner Matthew Arkell, Legendarium. Reflecting on his past decade of cultural production—see: Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems, Grant Singer’s iconic 2012 cult short, IRL; collaborations with Dis, Kelela, Lafawndah, Mykki Blanco, Ryan Trecartin, Telfar, Korakr...

Director Hayley Garrigus joins us to discuss her documentary film. https://www.altavod.com/content/you-cant-kill-meme https://www.instagram.com/youcantkillmeme/ https://geni.us/YouCantKillMeme

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, satire, music making and cooking videos. Check out Deafbeef's work: https://www.deafbeef.com/ Follow...

One of greatest comment threads ever.

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  

Greg Guevara visits the pod to discuss radical ideologies, mental health, artistic expression and political speech. https://www.youtube.com/c/Jregory https://twitter.com/mc_swm https://www.instagram.com/greg.guevara/ https://www.patreon.com/jreg

 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 contender on the world stage for not only personal computers, but also large scale networked IT systems. Based wit...

Online public vs private spaces, web 2.5, platform capitalism, saving the children from unpaid internships, pre-crisis aesthetics, edgy teens, unironic conspiracies, shadowbanning and influence https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz?s=20 https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz/ https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/

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 existed. We also discuss how his latest project Ocean Protocol proposes to hand us control of our data a...

NY/Paris-based creative director Katharina Korbjuhn speaks to New Models about the launch of PARADIGM TRILOGY, a new publication crystalizing the gap between the legacy fashion/media sector and the post-digital — and even post-individual world — its audiences increasingly inhabit. For more: @katkorb @paradigmtrilogy http://www.paradigmtrilogy.com/ https://www.katharinakorbjuhn.com/ New Models GREE...

Nadim Samman is a curator and art historian based in Berlin. IG: @ nadim.samman https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/open-secret/ http://joshuacitarella.com/chooseyourfuture/

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 Revelator.   Check out Revelator: https://revelator.com/   Follow Bruno on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brun...

Dorian visits the stream to investigate conspiracy theory & the federal reserve.

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 state of the field, Loot frenzy and the recent arrival of the dragonslayers, and some areas she feels are ye...

Check out the HTDW Program 2021: https://www.patreon.com/howtodresswell   https://www.instagram.com/howtodresswell/ https://twitter.com/HowToDressWell https://soundcloud.com/howtodresswell https://howtodresswell.com/  

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 Meme Young: https://www.patreon.com/la_meme_young Follow his incredible Instagram: https://www.instag...

Helen Hester is the author of Xenofeminism (2018). She is a professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the London School of Film, Media and Design. @ HelenHester twitter.com/HelenHester?s=20

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 number of neologisms that appear in the book, not least Shumon's concept of  "Emotional Capitalism", the g...