Interdependence

Myths and Machine Learning with Marianna Simnett

In advance of the premiere of her new AI fueled gesamtkunstwerk “Gorgon”, the artist Marianna Simnett joins us to dive into mythology, mimicry and the saga of convincing

The floor is moving with Shawn Reynaldo

Over the past two decades Shawn Reynaldo has operated in every corner of electronic music. His substack "First Floor", recently anthologized into his debut book, offers a

Demystifying AI training law with TechnoLlama

Everyone and their llama is talking about AI ethics and law, so we invited the high Llama Andres Guadamuz, an eminent researcher in AI and IP, to discuss the particularit

The Permaweird with Venkatesh Rao

After some weeks of nativity bliss and medical drama we are back!  A joy to invite Venkatesh Rao to take us down a number of his bunny trails, focussing initially on his

Latent space exploration with Damien Roach aka patten

We caught up with Damien Roach, aka patten, aka 555-5555, to discuss the need for new language to navigate the abstract implications of machine learning for our understan

Mental models and next gen AI tools with Cristóbal Valenzuela (Runway)

Runway have been on an absolute tear of late offering new AI tools for their creative production suite, so we invited CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela to join us to discuss their

Air Age Blueprint, machine sentience and interspecies comms with K Allado-McDowell

Hey everyone!  We recently linked up with the inimitable K Allado McDowell as part of the "Death by Landscape" series at HKW Berlin to discuss their new book "Air Age Bl

Dadabots: Playing with fire❤️‍🔥and extreme AI music

Over the moon to welcome titans of AI music Dadabots! We debate the coming obsolescence of human artists, their new open source AI music organization HarmonAI, and discus

Synthetic 3ball and Semilla AI with Hexorcismos

We catch up with Moisés Horta Valenzuela (Hexorcismos) to discuss his remarkable experiments with music and machine learning, and his upcoming software project Semilla th

New economic kinks and Extitutional theory with Primavera De Filippi

Primavera De Filippi of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society joins us to discuss her econ

Covid space travel and AI rabbit holes with Andy Turner (Plaid) and Emma Catnip

A great joy to host Andy Turner and Emma Catnip to discuss their work in celebration of the release of Plaid's latest album Feorm Falorx. We discuss their intergalactic s

Other intelligences and prepping for utopia with James Bridle

Hi everyone! Back in the saddle after an enforced little break prompted by a peculiar cluster of medical scare, pregnancy and founding a new organization. What a wild yea

Is A.I. good or bad for art? With The Culture Journalist

Mat joined our friends Emilie & Andrea at The Culture Journalist to cover a brief history of the current wave of AI art, why artist replacement narratives can veer on the

Gamer Wagnerism and dog operas with David Kanaga

A real joy to welcome one of our favorites David Kanaga, the composer and game designer behind Soft Valkyrie, a recent opera starring Stephen Fry and Attila Csihar, the d

Post-Individualism, Metalabels and Web 3 with Yancey Strickler

A joy to welcome Yancey Stickler to discuss his idea of Post-Individualism and his new project Metalabel. We also get into his prior work founding Kickstarter, its parall

Co-creating new music economies with Tim Exile (Endlesss)

Such a joy to have on virtuosic musician and instrument builder Tim Exile to discuss his collaborative online musical ecosystem Endlesss, the uneasy state of contemporary

The state of streaming, crypto and perpetual musical nostalgia with David Turner (Penny Fractions)

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 st

Inhuman Intelligence with Anil Bawa-Cavia

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

Open Source AI and Stable Diffusion with Emad Mostaque

A real pleasure to welcome Emad Mostaque to discuss the impending launch of Stable Diffusion, his comprehensive plans for open source AI infrastructure, the impending rec

Future instruments and generative transcultural exchange with Hanoi Hantrakul

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