Creative Disturbance

Chris Chafe talks about his years of experiences in the field of sonification with Scot Gresham-Lancaster. Chris is the Director of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Listeners who want to hear some of Chris’s excellent sonification work can go here: http://chrischafe.net/portfolio/sonification-2/. His bio is at: http://chrischafe.net/about-2-2/

Deepa Ganesh has been a student of music, a journalist and has been writing about music since a long time. She speaks about her initial experiences on writing about music and how writing on music theory were emphasized more than music appreciation. According to her, writing from and on the experience of music is more important than the geometries of it.  She has met renowned musicians like Kishori Amonkar, Gangubai Hangal and studied both the families of music , Carnatic and Hindustani Classical music. She feels music can be divided through their temporal qualities rather than rigidities of external systems.  Bumpers by Hamid Hassan. Edited by Ritwik Kaikini.

Reynaldo habla con el artista de instalaciones eléctricas híbridas Gilberto Esparza sobre el tema de su trabajo y las artes digitales latinoamericanas. Translation: Reynaldo speaks with hybrid electric installation artist Gilberto Esparza on the subject of his work and Latin American digital arts. 

Join Roger Malina for a conversation with AoSL founder Harvey Seifter as the two discuss the impact of artistic skills and experiences on the processes of learning and innovation. 

Luciano Queiroz (@lucianocupim) e João Silveira (@johngaucho) recebem Anunciata Sawada para entender como a Arte e Ciência ou Ciência e Arte estão presentes na Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz). Nosso objetivo é abordar assuntos relacionados a arte-ciência através de entrevistas com pesquisadores brasileiros nesse campo de estudo e entender o que é arte-ciência e como ela está inserida em nossas vidas. How does the relationship between science and art take place in one of the main research institutions in Brazil, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)?  Anunciata Sawada is the guest of Luciano Queiroz, @lucianocupim , and João Silveira, @johngaucho, in this second episode of Papo ArteCiência, and will talk about this interaction!

Ben Lima speaks with Yve-Alain Bois on the topics of modernist painting, art history, and his current work.  Recorded and edited by Oskar Olsson. 

PhDc student Rae Pleasant speaks with Roger Malina about her work in the field of oral histories that seek to preserve the ideas and life experiences of multiple generations. 

Cleomar Rocha is the guest of Luciano Queirozand João Silveira in this talk about smart cities and Media Labs in Brazil. 

Zhang, Peili is considered the father of Chinese video art for his three-hour video 30X30 (1988). He is also as an influential educator who started the New Media Department at China Academy of Art in 2002 where young artists such as Hu, Weiyi, Lin, ke, Lu, yang among many others graduated from. This episode starts with a re-discovery of his 30X30. The work depicts the artist breaks a mirror and glues the pieces together. Although being labeled as the first Chinese video art piece in China, the artist’s intention behind the work has been ironically covered by its fame. Firstly, in today’s talk, it is actually called a “failure” by Zhang as he actually planned to lock the audience in the room, forcing them to stay with the monotonous or “meaningless” time of mirror gluing, and thus making obvious the consciousness of time passing. However, it was him ended up being forced to hold the video controller and keeping fast forward under the press of the audience. What made this work pivotal in contemporary Chinese ar

A continuation of Ben's conversation with John Mraz on photography in Mexico. The music used for the intro and outro bumpers is Cello Suite no. 1 in G, BMW 1007, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Recorded and edited by Oskar Olsson.

A conversation with John Mraz about photography in Mexico. The music used for the intro and outro bumpers is  Cell Suite no. 1 in G, BMW 1007, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.  Find the full piece here.   Recorded and edited by Oskar Olsson.  

Janeil Engelstad talks with Shannon Stratton about her work as the 
Mildred and William Lasdon Chief Curator at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, as well as Stratton’s own background as an artist and MAD’s recent exhibition Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound.

Jieming Hu is one of the pioneering artists of digital media and video installation art in today's China and is currently the chair of the academic board at the School of Fine Arts at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. This episode covers topics including early Chinese media art practices in the background of social changes, his thinking about media culture as reflected in his artworks, artistic exploration into time and life, manipulation of installation spaces via smell, sound and light, etc. 1980s and 90s witnessed a transition in the living condition of Chinese people which was reflected in the media condition. In contrast with the information exploration in the Internet Age, TV used to be the only information resource for Chinese people with only 12 channels. Being sensitive to the social change of the times, the first period of Hu’s art creation focused on questioning the relationship between media, popular culture and people, such as taking snapshots from the 12 TV channels and making them into a s

Eun Ah Lee talks to Dr. Mijung Kim (University of Alberta in Canada) and Dr Hye-eun Chu (Macquarie University in Australia) about how teachers can encourage and guide young girls toward the STEM world.

Maryam Veysmoradi is a young Iranian filmmaker and director who has produced several short films. My dialogue with her revolves around issues such as the nature of the short film versus the feature film, the relationship between short films and ethical dilemmas, political realities, and the human being’s existential predicaments. Instead of dealing with subjects rooted in the minutiae of everyday life, in some of her works, she has tried to touch upon issues which are concerned with war and universal peace. Primarily, in this podcast, Maryam Veysmoradi elaborates on the nature of short film as an autonomous artistic medium which is aesthetically and ontologically distinguishable from its counterpart feature film. Although “brevity” is the principal characteristic of the short film, but Maryam emphasizes that this characteristic does not detract the strong influence of the short film in terms of engaging and evoking the emotional and mental state of its audiences. In her works, she wishes to achieve a universa

Hello everyone, I am the channel host Siying Duan, currently conducting my doctoral research in new media instillation and comparative aesthetics at Shanghai University. In this episode, I introduce the main contents of this podcast channel with a particular focus on the idea of “象(Xiang)” which has both the connotation of “elephant” and “image”. In Chinese aesthetics, “象(Xiang)” is an important concept which basically means an aesthetic object that both present and absent, which creates an effect transcends the barrier between viewer and artwork. This kind of aesthetic thinking is not exclusive to traditional Chinese art practice; on the contrary, its dynamic, relational and non-dualistic features resonate with characteristics of contemporary media art practices. In order to make these art practices more visible and accessible, in this podcast, Chinese artists who are experimenting with all kinds of interesting media will be invited to the conversion in this channel, to share about their artworks, their feel

Knowledge Link through Art and Science (KLAS) is an Artist in Residence program of the Max Planck Society. KLAS fosters ArtSci exchange and transdisciplinary innovation and education whilst also establishing a link between Synthetic Biology research groups of two research institutions – Rijksuniversiteit Groningen [RuG] and two Max Planck Institutes [MPI]. In addition to awarding two Artist Residencies in 2017, KLAS will present a series of events and conversations around specific thematic topics. KLAS is funded by the Max Planck Society and the Schering Foundation and organized by Polyhedra.  Wolfgang Knapp focuses on interdisciplinary projects, art and the media, curatorial activities and international project cooperation. Knapp is professor h.c. at the Department of Fine Arts and Design at Zhejiang Commercial Technical College in Hangzhou/China and has been chairperson of the Commission for artistic and scientific projects at the University for the Arts in Berlin. He created the  UdK-Preis für interdisz