First released: 2 May 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

Few, if any, are more conversant in AI’s impact on creative production than HOLLY HERNDON and MAT DRYHURST. In part this is because the artist-musicians (and hosts of the Interdependence podcast) have also become, out of necessity, technologists. And perhaps it’s due to their DIY drive to not just comment on but actually build the tools and protocols artists need to more effectively navigate the 21st century that they are optimistic about it. In a conversation ranging from new baselines for Art to the future terms of IP and the horizons of identity and ownership, Mat and Holly share frameworks and neologisms unlocking a fresh framework for thinking about the AI-enhanced culture to come.

For more:

Tw: @matdryhurst & @hollyherndon

https://patreon.com/interdependence

https://spawning.ai

First released: 29 Jan 2023 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

Situated amid political communication theory, social media information economics, and the vanguard of social science methodology, Kevin Munger (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State University) visits NM to share his post-2010s framework for understanding the future of networked culture.


Kevin is the author of Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture (Columbia U. Press, 2022). And on this new ep, he discusses media technology’s role in the migration of big organizing concepts such as conservative, liberal, autonomy, and progress; as well as how technological change, which is inevitable, impacts the very foundations of literate/liberal culture.


Bonus: Excerpt from Vilém Flusser's 1986-92 Artforum column, "Curie's Children"




For more: http://www.kevinmunger.com/

“Why I am (Still) a Conservative (For Now)” (Jan 2023)

https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/why-i-am-still-a-conservative-for

“Why I am (Still) a Liberal (For Now)” (Jul 2022)

https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/why-i-am-still-a-liberal-for-now

NM46: Boomacracy w/ Kevin Munger (Jun 2022)

https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/boomocracy-w-kevin-munger-on-generational-power-in-america-nm46

The first and only feature from famed music video director Hype Williams (Missy Elliot, “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” 1997; The Notorious B.I.G., “Mo Money Mo Problems,” 1997; TLC, “No Scrubs,” 1999), Belly is a ‘90s crime drama set in NYC starring Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, Method Man, and T-Boz with cameos by Sean Paul, Method Man and others.

Upon its release, the movie was widely panned and, due to its negative, violent depictions of young black men, the Magic Johnson Theater chain even refused to screen it. But 25 years later, Belly stands as a resonant distillation of its time, both stylistically and sociologically.

New Models chose to screen Belly for the monthly NM x Trust Kino night in Berlin last week. And for this event Lil Internet, a video director himself (Beyoncé, “No Angel,” 2013; Diplo, “Express Yourself,” 2012; Iggy Azalea, “Mo Bounce,” 2017) put together some contextualizing thoughts on Belly, which he read IRL before the screening. He's adapted his notes for this NM Short.

For more:

@lilinternet https://soundcloud.com/lilinternet/dmx-prayer-monument-ambient?

First released: 11 Feb 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

Artist Cory Arcangel joins New Models to chat about his practice at large during the closing days of his Kunstverein Hamburg show, “Flying Foxes.” The conversation originally aired as live video via the Kunstverein, with an intro by the show’s curator, Nicholas Tammens.

The audio has been adapted by Lil Internet for the NM Audio Metaverse™.

For more:

https://coryarcangel.com

Cory Arcangel, “Flying Foxes,” Kunstverein Hamburg

First released: 14 Mar 2023 | To join New Models & receive full stream in real time, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

In which Carly & Julian make their first visit to Dubai and return with a new world module installed on their mental hard drives.

Many thanks to Shumon Basar and Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum 16 “Predicting the Present” for making this trip possible.

Addt'l reading: Shumon Basar, “The Magic Kingdom: How Not to Think about Dubai” (Bidoun, 2007) https://www.bidoun.org/articles/the-magic-kingdom

First released: 19 Feb 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

As DIS returns to Germany for the first time since members Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro curated 2016’s hotly contested Berlin Biennale 9, Boyle joins New Models to talk about the generation-defining project’s trajectory since its inception in the late-’00s, its recent film installation Everything But The World (on view through Feb 26 at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin), and its future vision. Along the way we discuss: subculture, pop culture, mass media, digital rot, and Gens X, Y, Z, and A.

For more: dis.art

@dis on IG & Twitter

dismagazine.com (still partially accessible!)

READ: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/dis-collective-is-back-in-berlin-with-everything-but-the-world (text: Carly / photos: Lil Internet)

First released: 14 Oct 2022 | To join New Models & receive full stream in real time, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

In Berlin with parallel shows at Galerie Sprüth Magers and Schinkel Pavillon, artist JON RAFMAN joins NM to speak about collective memory, the fractured self, embracing the cringe of new consumer tech, and post-net art’s post-lockdown resurgence.

For more:

jonrafman.com

IG: @jonrafman

First released: 22 Jan 2023 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

Creative director Katharina Korbjuhn updates NM on Paradigm Trilogy, the mobile-first editorial vehicle she launched in 2021 to address how the fashion-adjacent creative sector is changing.

As Paradigm’s second release, “Man vs. Machine” is largely set in Berlin and features contributions from several denizens of the New Models sphere, we invited Kat to come on the podcast to discuss the ideas—the state of fashion & media, machine learning, creative agency, and our neo-anthroposophic age—that underpin the issue's concept.

For more: https://paradigmtrilogy.com

Bonus: NMTV goes behind the scenes of Paradigm's "Man" shoot in Berlin, May 2022: https://youtu.be/9M1FpaAvrk4

First released: 7 Aug 2022 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

In lieu of the regular NM pods, Lil Internet & Carly reflect on their time in the USA these past 2 1/2 weeks—mostly in Maryland and Virginia—and the life/death cycles and spectrum of real/simulation that underscored it, filled out by ex-urban home ownership, mass shooters, firefly technology, air-conditioning blight, new weather, dead vultures, La Croix’s disappearance, and the twentieth-century revenge of Top Gun.

First released: 4 Aug 2022 | To join New Models, you can find us: https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

In lieu of the regular NM pods, Lil Internet & Carly reflect on their time in the USA these past 2 1/2 weeks—mostly in Maryland and Virginia—and the life/death cycles and spectrum of real/simulation that underscored it. Plus ex-urban home ownership, mass shooters, firefly technology, air-conditioning blight, new weather, dead vultures, La Croix’s disappearance, and the twentieth-century revenge of Top Gun.

Released to subscribers: 4 Aug 2022