Artist Decoded by Yoshino

Derek DelGaudio is a writer, performance artist, and two-time Academy of Magical Arts Award winning magician. He wrote and starred in the show, Nothing To Hide. He was selected to be the Artist in Residence for Walt Disney Imagineering. Derek co-founded, along with Glenn Kaino, the performance-art collective, A.BANDIT. He has staged works at LA>

Glenn Kaino is a conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. In 2012 he was selected by the U.S. Department of State to represent the country in the 13th International Cairo Biennale, and he has had additional solo exhibitions at The Andy Warhol Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Grand Arts, The Modern Ft. Worth, The Whitney Museum, MOCA San Diego, and REDCAT among others. He has also been included in numerous group exhibitions such as the 12th Lyon Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Performa 09, and Prospect.3.

IN & OF ITSELF is a show constructed as a metaphoric labyrinth, filled with allegorical illusions, and centered around a single paradoxical truth.

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Matt Skiba is an American musician, singer and songwriter known for his role as the co-lead vocalist and guitarist of the bands Alkaline Trio and Blink-182. Skiba began performing with Blink-182 in March 2015. He appears of the band's seventh album, California, released on July 1st, 2016.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• He talks about his experience with joining Blink-182
• Practicing meditiation
• Being happy / enjoying the present moment
• Creativity coming from a place of contentment as opposed to being inspired by dramatic experiences in one's life
• Using the past as a well of inspiration
• His love for writers Cormac McCarthy, Erik Larson, and Charles Bukowski
• Getting out of writer's block
• The process of creating the newest Blink-182 album, California

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Artist filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied Fine Art and Animation at the University of Southern California, graduating in 2007.

Huang's film and video work have been exhibited at the MoMA, NYC; MoMA PS1; The Barbican Centre, London; Potmasters Gallery, NYC; and the MoCA, Los Angeles.

As an experimental filmmaker whose work bridges the gap between video art and film, he has developed a strong reputation for his collaborative practice, having worked extensively with Icelandic artist Bjork, as well as Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the Icelandic band Sigur Ros among others.

Topics discussed on this episode:

• How learning how to figure draw changed the way he generated ideas
• His thesis project in college, entitled "Doll Face", was the first video he posted on Youtube. He released it in 2006 and it was received very well. This video marked the first realization of the viability of online video content to him.
• His journey into the world of filmmaking after college
• How the creation of his short film in 2012, Solipsist, made a huge impact on the current trajectory of his career
• Collaborating with Atoms For Peace, Bjork and Sigur Ros
• The importance of storyboarding
• The ebb and flows of creating art
• The importance of promoting your work

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Tim Barber (b. Feb. 5th 1979) grew up in Amherst Massachusetts, lived for a few years in the mountains of Northern Vermont, studied photography in Vancouver B.C. and now lives in New York City. A photographer, curator and designer, Barber worked as the photo editor for Vice Magazine (2003-2005) and founded the online gallery and image archive tinyvices.com (2005-2012), which was released as a free App (2010) and evolved into time-and-space.tv (2013-2016), a curated community platform for artists. Barber co-curated the inaugural New York Photo Festival (2008), curated / edited a series of five monographs published by the Aperture Foundation (2008) and launched the independent publishing house TV Books (2008-2010).

Ideas expressed in this episode:

• Art being able to communicate messages that words can't describe
• Creating, manifesting, capturing, hunting for... "IT"
• The podcast highlighting todays "unsung heroes". These artists have the potential to eventually become "cult classics".
• Our job as an artist is to translate experiences and to share them with the world
• Different levels of dimensions and consciousness
• Virtual reality becoming a part of reality
• Living with love and fear in our lives. Creating a no fear zone
• Becoming Photo Editor for Vice
• Conversations becoming artworks within themselves
• Trying to live within a non-consumerist way of life
• The art world being a vast sea of hits and misses. Being both deep and shallow.
• Our relationship with our own truths and universal truths

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Yuna is a Malaysian pop vocalist and guitarist. Yuna talks about her newest album "Chapters".

Topics covered in this episode:

• Southeast Asian ghost stories
• Scary movies
• On her desire to act
• Growing up watching Bollywood and Hollywood films
• Explaining her identity as a Malaysian born singer / songwriter
• Discovering nuances of her identity
• Clearing the air on certain Muslim stereotypes
• The importance of not losing yourself in the entertainment industry
• Her desire to make people aware of human rights issues
• Being in touch with your own personal journey and organic growth as an artist
• Everything one does as an artist being a preparation for the next step
• Learning to enjoy every moment and to embrace people for who they are
• The connection she has with her fans
• Transitioning from law school to a full-time music career, encouraged by her parents
• Her new album "Chapters"

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Isamaya Ffrench is a makeup interdisciplinary artist whose clients included Junya Wantanabe, YSL Beauty, Chanel, Selfridges, Nike, and Camper. She works with magazines / publications such as Vogue, Love, Dazed and Novembre. She is the UK Brand Ambassador of YSL Beaute. She splits her time between London and Paris.

Topics covered:

• Self discovery through artistry
• The importance of collaboration
• Creating a creative dialogue with collaborative partners
• Trusting those who you collaborate with
• Having ideas and executing them
• Self-development
• Personal approaches to beauty
• Mental wellness
• Psychotherapy
• Being comfortable in one's own skin
• Life being a constant flow of change
• Letting go

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A special episode featuring Artist Decoded's host, Yoshino, interviewed by Noah Lampert.

Topics discussed: confidence, breaking down limiting beliefs and mental barriers, being of service and creating value, the intersection of art and consciousness, starting Artist Decoded, his work as a photographer... Etc.

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After many years in front of the camera acting for the likes of Brian DePalma, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Craven, Robert Rodriguez, among many others, Rose McGowan has turned her eye to directing. She premiered her directorial debut, the short film, Dawn at the Sundance Film Festival. It garnered not only critical praise, but a Grand Jury Prize nomination and qualified for the Academy Awards. McGowan is now preparing for her feature length debut.

Rose continues to evolve with explorations into music, she released her first single in the Fall after many years recording under different names, and virtual reality which she is currently creating several projects around this medium.

Today is a new era for McGowan - who seeks to create meaningful, artful work that inspires.

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Born in Germany in 1979, Daniel Sannwald is emerging as one of the true original voices in contemporary photography. In a landscape dominated by referential and repetitive imagery, Daniel is establishing a strong and recognizable signature that is already catching the attention of some of the most influential trendsetters in the fashion and photography industries. His surrealistic and hauntingly beautiful images speak of a world where Fashion and Art meet to reveal a unique narrative. Daniel studied at the Royal Academy in Antwerp (MA Honours) and is now based in London.

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Timothy Wilson is a painter based in Maine. He works from direct painting on location and expounds upon his studies in larger studio paintings. Both a meditative ritual and obsessive dedication, his daily outings in stormy, serene, and inclement weather to coastal Atlantic locations help inform an experiential vocabulary and expressionist mark making. After years of portrait and figurative work, Timothy merged his holistic concepts of the ocean, landscape, and figure; aiming to find a more abstract and resonate image through the natural deconstruction of imagery.

Timothy keeps a permanent studio on the coast of Maine. He teaches (occasionally) at the Maine College of Art. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008.

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