technology

Johannes Birringer: from Literature to Dance, Choreography, Digital Architectures and then Deep Underground

Recorded on 2020-10-20

We discussed ideas around embodiment, re-embodiment, kimospheres, atmospheres, technology and issues related to the practice of Johannes Birringer as a choreographer, director and professor of performance technologies. His publications have taken up important issues surrounding the body and technologies, theatre, dance, and choreography. Birringer underlines the pivotal moment when he attended a Pina Bausch performance, […]

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Medical Technology makes it possible. Should we choose it?

Recorded on 2020-08-19

Elizabeth Escalante is a Stone Fellow at the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at the UT Dallas who studies ethics issues involved in medical technology. In this episode, Eun Ah Lee and Elizabeth talk about Elizabeth’s current study of uterus transplantation as an ethical alternative to commercial gestational surrogacy.

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NTU: The State of the Internet

Recorded on 2016-10-16

Jepchumba in conversation with the NTU. NTU is an agency concerned with the spiritual futures of the Internet. Founded by tech healers Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Nolan Oswald Dennis and Tabita Rezaire, NTU seeks to enhance intersubjective virtual user possibilities. NTU provides decolonial therapies for the digital age.

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Just a Band

Recorded on 2016-10-05

In this episode we speak to long time friends and musicians, Just A Band from Kenya. The group was formed when their members were studying at Kenyatta University. They went on to release the song “IWINYO PINY” accompained by a self-made animated music video. Initially the song received little airplay to to its unconventional musical style, […]

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ExPuCu Roundtable

Recorded on 2016-06-29

Students from the Experimental Publishing and Curation graduate seminar discuss their current projects in publishing, which include an alternative to traditional academic publishing, an mobile app that encourages users to read in green spaces, a podcast focused on contemporary African art, and online publications about feminism and the environment. The issues covered in the discussion […]

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MAP Radio Hour [ENG]

Recorded on 2016-06-06

In this podcast Janeil Engelstad and Yvan Tina discuss their projects “Make Art with Purpose” and “Virtual Africa”. They talk about the common threads and possible collaboration between these incredible projects. Also discussed is art, technology, and the advancements these have created in educational options.

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Scales of Life – in Art

Recorded on 2016-04-11

Extending our discussion on biolabor to the field of synthetic biology, Ionat Zurr addresses the application of engineering principles to life. She also reflects upon her role as both an artist and researcher that makes use of technology to create symbolic gestures. The episode ends with comments on the scalability of the living and the […]

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Mechanisms and Abstractions of Life

Recorded on 2016-03-28

Drawing upon two of their most recent works, The Mechanism of Life – after Stephane Leduc (2013) and Futile Labor (2015), artist Ionat Zurr discusses our perceptions of life and talks about the processes that lead her with the Tissue Culture & Art Project to create semi-living art and our evolving relationship to labor. http://lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/tca/

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From Eugenics to Synbio Design

Recorded on 2016-01-11

By looking at the history of Eugenics and Design, Christina Cogdell questions the cultural values we affect to biologically designed artifacts and how humans, through that process, may become mere products. She also takes into consideration the evolution of technology in relation to the history of energy and the horizontal gene transfers that occur between […]

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