MTV is a thing of the past. Music video budgets are dwindling, and there are now so many different avenues in which to discover and experience music. Jono Brandel and Nick Shelton join us to chat about what it’s been like to create new forms of visual music experiences-- from interactive music videos to live concerts in Virtual Reality.

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Host: Natalie Sun

Website: http://nextart.tech

Pain, whether it’s losing someone or experiencing trauma, can be a lonely experience. But social media and new, interactive mediums have opened up to communities of support through moments of vulnerability. How are people using tech to deal with these traumas? Does making these projects help with the coping process?

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Host: Natalie Sun

Website: http://nextart.tech

Long gone are the days of making mixtapes and putting collages together -- they just don’t mean the same thing in the 21st century. How has new tech changed the way we express our affection? What happens when you break up? What does the ownership of that mean? Who owns the website? The file?

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Host: Natalie Sun

Website: http://nextart.tech

Ideally, we’d live in a world where we can make a living off of our personal art practice. But that takes time, and life takes...rent, food, stability. How do we juggle between commercial work (driven by clients/advertising) and artwork based on our personal practice?

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Toggl: https://toggl.com/

Host: Natalie Sun

Website: http://nextart.tech

Media perpetuates how technology makes us less human. Some see it as a way to bring us closer together. Has technology made you closer to other people? How do you use new mediums to create deeper connections and friendships? Kate Hollenbach and Nicky Case join us to chat about how they use their work to explore human connections.

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Host: Natalie Sun

Website: http://nextart.tech

“They do work with… computers... and... shapes? They have a nice apartment.” How many sentences does it take for you to explain your job? Ivaylo Getov of Dandelion + Burdock and Kawandeep Virdee join us to talk about how they navigate their careers and the titles that go with it.

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Kawan references Bridget Riley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley

Host: Natalie Sun

Website: http://nextart.tech

You’re creative. You work in tech. What does it mean to be creative with tech? Make art with tech? What’s ‘new media’, anyways? We’re diving deeper into the work of artists that we love, and how their work has influenced culture in more ways that we can see. Every episode we’ll invite two creatives to discuss various topics around what it means to be an artist using new mediums, or old mediums in new ways.

Host: Natalie Sun

Website: http://nextart.tech