Creative Disturbance

Adam Zaretsky is an artist and professor in Media Arts at Marist College (NY, USA) who develops a practice that integrates the fields of Ecology, Biotechnology, Performance and Gastronomy. Drawing upon the questions raised by one of his texts on transgenic art, the podcast addresses several issues such as the bioethics of new technology, that of genetic modification, the public understanding of science or even the appeal for biology in contemporary art. Is science making better performance than art? How far ranging human gene editing can get us to? What is so sexy with the biological today?

H. Cenk Dereli, Boğaçhan Dündaralp ile bir iletişim aracı olarak konumlandırdığı mimarlık pratiği ve

İstanbul Kuzguncuk Bostanı'na dair sürece bu bağlamda nasıl dahil olduğu üzerine konuşuyor.

Julia Schade, a PhD candidate from Frankfurt, discusses her research project that deals with the notion of time as applied to middle east - especially lebanese - theater and performance. How to re-present history and what is the role of digital media in the representation of time? How to deconstruct a thinking of history as archeo-teleological? These are some of the questions she addresses in this podcast.

In this podcast Azadeh Abrishami discusses design, innovation, and research with Roger Malina. Azadeh Abrishami talks about her new start-up company and the effective design work that it is creating. She also discusses her past with academia where she studied under Bob Fee in both industrial engineering, industrial design, and design management.

In this podcast James David Hart and Roger Malina discuss SMU's method of teaching/training students. By including an entrepreneurship aspect into the curriculum a student gains more knowledge and a wider view point about their art/product. When building the business model students are encouraged to build for a singular individual in mind. This will give the student a chance to see from the consumers point of view and allow for precise feedback.

Dr. Matt Brown and Dr. Fatemeh Hassanipour talk about engineering in a new perspective.

The first Other Planes podcast features Chicago-based author, filmmaker and innovator Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and director of the black science fiction film Bar Star City.

Lucy HG Solomon of the art collective, The League of Imaginary Scientists, probes future outcomes of Earth through human physicality. The results range from prosthetic tree limbs to human glaciers and posit human sensory organs for perceiving environmental data. She will present multidisciplinary art that combines digital media, dance, chemistry and geology.

Striving to become the “Hollywood of South Sudan”, Kapital Movie Industry is a network of visionary young artists, documentarists, Graphic Designers, Filmmakers, Web Designers, Film Directors and Visual Effect Artists who are interested in telling the story of their new country and helping to build its future. With the PeaceHackCamp they organize each year, the aim to engage with youth using graphic technology, cinema and video to promote peace in South Sudan. In this podcast, Bakahika Bruno, KMIC’s operational manger, talks about his visions for the future of African cinema and the technical (and economical) difficulties they encounter in order for new talents to emerge.

In this podcast Roger Malina discusses lying machines with Judge John Marshall and Ken Murphy. Judge John Marshall explains the theory of cyber ethics and talks about the expansion of machines and the overlap that is growing into the legal systems. Judge John Marshall also discusses with Ken Murphy the creation and advancement of space law.