In this Episode gold extra's Reinhold Bidner and Tobias Hammerle discuss about the mystical creature Artificial Intelligence. Will it suck all life out of human artists, before it takes over the petty remains of what we used to call our home planet? Special guests: Hal2023, Skynet, a Kangaroo and a (pretty decent) vampire.

In this sixth episode on the micro publishing series Briefs Damien Crawford tells us how capitalism became the blight of the land in his creation Have-Nots Unforgiving, why gambling is at the center of this creation and why no one else in the world wants to create this kind of games.

In this fifth episode on the micro publishing series Briefs Joshua Hollendonner tells us all about the unholy platformer kerfufle titled Mosa Lina, the art of teaching and the not too trivial task to generate randomized levels that aren't not really random.

In this fourth episode on the micro publishing series Briefs Marta Fijak tells us all about Buildingo, her sinister take on the city building genre: Grab a hammer and ... follow instructions? Yes. You are not in charge. Someone else is. Go and build as you are commanded!

In this third episode on the micro publishing series Briefs Max & Alex Robbins give us an insight into their painful typing game Mondays and how they went about creating this wildly successful corporate email sim.

In this second episode on the micro publishing series Briefs (ETA 6th of July 2022) the game developer and artist in exile Evgeni Puzankov explains us why he made a game about dating a duck assassin with a steel beak that refuses the use of vowels for political reasons.

In this first episode on the micro publishing series Briefs (ETA 6th of July 2022) the narrative designer and translator Eva Jucci talks about her creation, the art of text based labyrinths and, of course, how to pronounce a black Parallelpipedon that one randomly encounters in a yellow field.

gold extra's Charlie Zechenter talks to Aleksandra Jarosz about game development and -psychology.

Aleksandra Jarosz is a Polish game designer and researcher. She speaks about her personal gaming history and how it influenced her game development ideas. Her background in psychology Aleksandra influenced her works Fantastic Fetus (a sarcastic pregnacy Tamagotchi) and Indygo (a game in depression). She shares insights in her projects on psychology in games and the game development of Indygo.

Aleksandra Jarosz is a psychologist and game designer at Purple Lamp Studio, Vienna. Her best known games are Fantastic Fetus and Indygo. Her PhD project at the Academy of Arts, Katowice, explored personality measurement in games.

Reinhold Bidner talks to creative director Kris Hofmann about virtual worlds, animated augmented reality documentaries, unreal fish fingers and insect decline.

"The Art Wire" podcast is created and produced by gold extra.

Charlie talks to Bernard Gwiggner about Sculptures, Monuments and their performative context.

Bernhard Gwiggner speaks about the roles of monuments today and gves his perspective on counter monuments as temporary interventions. He explains contexts of three of his works which deal with Nazi sculptures in public space (Contra Position), prisons (Cell 2014) and a memorial on the resistance movement against Nazis in Neumarkt/Salzburg (Austria), which is currently in production. All his works deal with playful participatory interactions as a main component of the sculptural work.

Bernhard Gwiggner is a sculptor (Salzburg Mozarteum; Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) and a professor at the Department of Fine Arts in Innsbruck and Salzburg. He created numerous artworks, often as temporary sculptural projects in public space blending political contexts and performative aspects.

Visit Bernhards website at: www.gwiggner.com

"The Art Wire" podcast is created and produced by gold extra.