A PODCAST ABOUT HOW THE CULTURE WE PRODUCE SHAPES MEDIA, AND HOW THAT GOES BOTH WAYS
We Make Media Podcast Season 1 : Making Art in the Age of the Internet
In this first series, I talk with new media artists about the experiences making art in the age of the internet.
1. On Digital Art and Social Media, with Lorie Berberian, Keiona Broderick, Fatma Jadoon and Abigail MacBean
2. On Mashups, Media Platforms, and Live Audiences, with Mike Relm
3. On Cosplay and Performing for Cameras, with Maya Ben David
4. On GIF Making and Collaborations of all Kinds, with James Kerr
5. On Afrofuturism and Monumentalizing Black Presence, with Quentin VerCetty
6. On Kinetic Sculpture and Augmented Reality, Jenn E Norton
7. On Art Apps and Capitalism, with SpekWork Studio and Tough Guy Mountain
8. On New Media and Digital Economies, with Jeremy Bailey
We Make Media Podcast Season 2: New and Digital Literacies
In this second series of the #WeMakeMedia Podcast, I speak with authors, educators and technologists about new and digital literacies in classrooms and community-engaged arts settings.
1. Technology and New Literacies], with science and technology journalist Clive Thompson
2. Game-Based Learning, with high school teacher and game-based learning researcher Paul Darvasi, PhD
3. Co-creation, with web documentarian Katerina Cizek from MIT’s Open Documentary Lab
4. Algorithmic Literacy, with Barabara Fister from Project Information Literacy
5. Memes and Social Movements, with author An Xioa Mina
6. Deep Fakes and Social Media, with author and technology researcher Carl Miller
7. Ways of Hearing, with Milena Droumeva
8. Emoji and Linguistics, with author and lingust Vyv Evans, PhD
We Make Media Season 1 : Making Art in the Age of the Internet
#WeMakeMedia podcast (Season 1, Episode 1)
In this episode I talk with 4 teen-aged artists about changing the world with youtube, dollar store stylus pens, and their shared disdain for TikTok. Artists featured below (left to right) Lorie Berberian, Keiona Broderick, Fatma Jadoon and Abigail MacBean
Mike Relm , #WeMakeMedia podcast, season 1, episode 2
MIKE RELM is best known for his music/video mash-ups, live concerts, and broadcast work. Part director, part Hip Hop producer, Relm has introduced the world to a style that truly echoes the fever-pitched pace of modern entertainment while paying homage to classic filmmakers and musicians.
Maya Ben David, #WeMakeMedia podcast, season 1, episode 3
This episode is full of great advice for artists producing content for internet audiences (so everyone at this point). Maya shares insights into how to remix footage for different platforms, the pressure of proliferation that social media platforms demand and how that feedback loop affects her artist process and product.
James (Scorpion Dagger) Kerr, #WeMakeMedia, Season 1, Episode 4
James’ animation bring Renaissance paintings into the realm of net art by mixing pop culture references into these classical paintings in some seriously hilarious ways. In this interview James shares many great insights into how to apply to the 3 Rs to your own archives, build a community of collaborators online, and the audience(s) that follow.
Quentin VerCetty, #WeMakeMedia podcast, season 1, episode 5
In this episode, I talk with Afrofuturist Quentin VerCetty about making techno-fossils and augmented reality monuments that mark the presence of Black people across the Canadian landscape as well as space and time. We also talk about creating meaningful content, collage as a tool of education and speculation.
Jenn E Norton, Season 1, Episode 6, #WeMakeMedia podcast
In this episode, I talk with Jenn E Norton about kinetic sculpture, how the least experienced creators shape emerging technologies and how baking can help you build skills in coding.Jenn E Norton is an interdisciplinary artist whose installation work explores the blurring boundaries of virtual and physical realms.
Spekwork Studio and Tough Guy Mountain, Season 1, Episode 7 of the #WeMakeMedia podcast
In this episode, I talk with Jonathan Carroll and Cat Bluemke of SpekWork Studio along with their Tough Guy Mountain performance collective member Iain Soder. We talk about how and why to make apps for art audiences, how 30 years of war on the socials has hurt the artist’s livelihood and we laugh a lot about the absurdity of work culture in late stage capitalism.
Jeremy Bailey, #WeMakeMedia podcast, Season 1, Episode 8
In this final episode of the first podcast series, I talk with Famous New media Artist Jeremy Bailey about what CEOs and artists have in common, using SEO hacks as self fulfilling prophecy for success and why your first solo show in a big art institution will probably conflict with your values.Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based self-proclaimed “Famous New Media Artist” and Head of Experience at FreshBooks.
We Make Media Season 2: New and Digital Literacies
Clive Thompson, #WeMakeMedia podcast, season 2, episode 1
In this episode I speak with author Clive Thompson about the new literacies that technology and the internet present us with, speaking to an authentic audience and the importance of a formal K-12 education in all of it. Clive Thompson is a journalist who writes about science and technology, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a monthly columnist for Wired magazine.
Paul Darvasi, #WeMakeMedia podcast , SE2 EP2 (teaser)
In this episode, I speak with educator Paul Darvasi about game-based learning in schools, from those of his own creation to pop culture classics such as Grand Theft Auto V. We discuss how augmented can be used to animate urban spaces for learning and the role of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing metrics for evaluating student success.
Katerina Cizek, #WeMakeMedia podcast, season 2, epsiode 3
In this episode I speak with Emmy-award winning web documentarian Katerina Cizek about her research with the Co-creation Studio at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and 209 report titled Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms.
Season 2 Episode 4: Algorithmic Literacy, with Barabra Fister from Project Information Literacy
In this episode, I speak with librarian Barbara Fister from Project Information Literacy about their study Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms. We discuss the growing role of algorithms in our daily lives, why the architects of these systems matter, and how the move to online learning in expanding student awareness of surveillance culture. Naturally, Barabara named many great book names on subjects discussed.
Season 2 Episode 5: Memes and Social Justice Movements, with author An Xiao Mina
In this episode, I speak with An Xiao Mina, author of Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. We talk about the "chaos magic" created by meme wars, the need for CONTEXT creation online, and how we have been making cat-GIFs for thousands of years.
Kinetic Sculpture and Augmented Reality, with Jenn E Norton S2EP6
In this episode, I talk with Jenn E Norton about kinetic sculpture, how the least experienced creators shape emerging technologies and how the artworld feels about moms.Jenn E Norton is an interdisciplinary artist whose installation work explores the blurring boundaries of virtual and physical realms. Norton’s recent multimedia installations and augmented reality apps have drawn upon the works of inventive women whose scientific and cultural contributions were overlooked or misattributed to their male colleagues.
Season 2 Episode 8: Emoji and Linguistics, Vyv Evans, PhD and author of The Emoji Code
In this episode, I speak with Professor Vyvyan Evans, author of The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, about how emoji makes us better communicators, what literacy traditionalists are misunderstanding about its power and how emojis are jumping off the keypad into civic life & city planning. Professor Vyvyan Evans, is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication as well as a communications technologist and consultant.
Katerina Cizek, #WeMakeMedia podcast, season 2, epsiode 3
In this episode I speak with Emmy-award winning web documentarian Katerina Cizek about her research with the Co-creation Studio at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and 209 report titled Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms.
We Make Media Season 3: Femme Futures
We Make Media Podcast Season 3: Femme Futures
In this third series of the #WeMakeMedia Podcast, I speak with womxn XR creators building the future of spatial computing and immersive storytelling.
Dropping later this year, guests include:
Carla Gannis
Grace Ng
Lauren Moffatt w/ Bay Backner, Huntrezz
Annika Schultz
ReImagined VR team Julie Caviliere, , Melissa Joyner and Michaela Ternasky-Holland
Caitlin Krause
and
Adriana Vecchioli