The Culture & Technology Podcast

By Vienna Business Agency

How is technology changing culture? From exhibition design to the performing arts, we invite leading curators, researchers, artists and cultural experts to explore how technology is shaping the future... more

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September 05, 2024Alice Bucknell: Ways of Worlding
The politics and poetics of building worlds
GUEST
Alice Bucknell (she, they) is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Working with game engines and speculative fiction, their practice examines interconnections of architecture, ecology, magic, and nonhuman and machine intelligence. https://alicebucknell.com/
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
E-Z Kryptobuild is a work of speculative fiction that responds to architecture’s role in producing systems of global inequity and the climate emergency. https://alicebucknell.com/projects/e-z-kryptobuild
Critical fabulation is the combining of historical and archival research with critical theory and fictional narrative to fill in the blanks left in the historical record. https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/7498724/6/AR317_Critical%20Fabulation.pdf
Swamp City imagines the Florida Everglades as a luxury eco-tourism retreat in a near-future reality of severe climate disruption. https://alicebucknell.com/projects/swamp-city
The Martian Word for World is Mother merges science-fiction strategies with a critical approach to contemporary proposals for the habitation of Mars. https://alicebucknell.com/projects/the-martian-word-for-world-is-mother-2022
The Alluvials is a video work and playable game that explores the politics of drought and water scarcity in a near-future version of Los Angeles. https://alicebucknell.com/projects/the-alluvials-the-game-2024
Unreal Engine is a series of 3D computer graphics game engines developed by Epic Games. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports new companies, projects and products that develop Vienna's creative industries further. Find out more at viennabusinessagency.at.
Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Hell Mutang.
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44min
July 10, 2024Paula Strunden: Touching, Licking and Tasting the Virtual
How does our body interact with virtual experiences?
GUEST
Paula Strunden (she, her) is a transdisciplinary artist with a background in architecture. She pursued her studies in Vienna, Paris, and London and gained professional experience at Raumlabor Berlin and Herzog & de Meuron Basel before undertaking her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as part of the European network TACK: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing. https://paulastrunden.com/
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Rhetorical Bodies is a collaborative extended reality (XR) installation by Paula Strunden that transcends the boundaries of physical and virtual reality. https://metamorf.no/2024/paula-strunden/
XR Atlas is an interdisciplinary collection of applied and research-oriented projects revolving around virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and augmented reality (AR). http://www.xr-atlas.org/about
Osmose (1995) is an immersive interactive virtual-reality environment installation with 3D computer graphics and interactive 3D sound, a head-mounted display and real-time motion tracking based on breathing and balance. https://www.immersence.com/osmose/
Unity Software is a platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content. https://unity.com/
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports new companies, projects and products that develop Vienna's creative industries further. Find out more at viennabusinessagency.at.
Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Hell Mutang.
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33min
May 28, 2024Dragan Espenschied: Archiving as Resistance
How do you preserve digital art?
GUEST
Dragan Espenschied (he/him) is a net artist, musician, and digital art conservator. He has been leading Rhizome's Digital Preservation Program since 2014. Espenschied’s activities as a conservator are mostly focused on infrastructure and field-wide action concerning web archiving, emulation, and linked open data.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarships, and digital preservation. https://rhizome.org/about/
Digital Folklore (2010) contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of the web, and the birth of its ‘pop culture’. https://digitalfolklore.org/
Emulation-as-a-Service, is a web-based platform originally developed by the bwFLA team at the University of Freiburg. https://eaasi.gitlab.io/program_docs/intro-emulation-workshop/06-eaasi/index.html
AppArt exhibitions were held at ZKM between 2011 and 2017, for the best artistic developments in the field of applications for smartphones and tablets since. https://zkm.de/en/project/appartaward
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports new companies, projects and products that develop Vienna's creative industries further. Find out more at viennabusinessagency.at.
Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Hell Mutang.
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37min
April 28, 2024Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne: Eccentric Engineering
Designing a better future through regeneration.
GUESTS
Tega Brain (she/her) is an artist and environmental engineer exploring issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure. She is an Industry Associate Professor of integrated Design and Media at New York University and co-author of ‘Code as Creative Medium’ (2021). You can find more information on Tega and her work here https://tegabrain.com/about
Sam Lavigne (he/him) is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at UT Austin. You can learn about his work here https://lav.io/about/
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
The Intergovernmental Panel on Capitalism (IPC) recognizes the problem of adequately addressing climate change as the problem of addressing deregulated capitalism. https://tegabrain.com/Intergovernmental-Panel-on-Capitalism
Smell Dating is the world’s first smell based dating service that invites people to find new connections using only their noses. https://tegabrain.com/Smell-Dating
Solar Protocol is a network of solar-powered servers that collectively host a web platform. The platform is then served from wherever there is the most sunshine in the network. http://solarprotocol.net/
Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that attempts to artificially inflate the value of climate change news. http://syntheticmessenger.labr.io/
Fragile States is a funding project and archive of interviews with former political prisoners who have been incarcerated for climate activism. https://fragilestates.labr.io/
Perfect Sleep investigates sleep and dreaming as a potential climate engineering technology. https://perfectsleep.labr.io/
Code as Creative Medium (2021) is an essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, interviews, and more than 170 illustrations of creative work. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542043/code-as-creative-medium/
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports new companies, projects and products that develop Vienna's creative industries further. Find out more at viennabusinessagency.at.
Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Hell Mutang.
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34min
March 11, 2024James Bridle: Beyond Human Intelligence
AI and agency in the more-than-human world
GUESTS
James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. They are the author of 'New Dark Age' (2018) and 'Ways of Being' (2022). Their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Ways of Being, a book about AI, non-human intelligence, ecology, biological computing, more-than-human relations, and much else.
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future was published by Verso in the UK in June 2018, and the US in July. It can be also be ordered from Amazon (UK/US/DE) and all good bookstores. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports new companies, projects and products that develop Vienna's creative industries further. Find out more at viennabusinessagency.at.
Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Hell Mutang.
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39min
January 17, 2024The End of a World
World modeling for future scenarios.
GUESTS
Patricia Reed is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Her work concerns the entanglements between epistemology, modeling and politics adapted to planetary scales of cohabitation. She is also part of the Laboria Cuboniks ‘Xenofeminist’ working group.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a writer and founder of co—matter, a research & strategy studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
The End of a World is an essay by Patricia Reed that examines the distinction between the global and the planetary. You can read it here: https://makingandbreaking.org/article/the-end-of-a-world-and-its-pedagogies/
The Dawn of Everything is a book by David Graeber & David Wengrow that provides an alternative account of human history challenging fundamental assumptions about social evolution. You can find out more here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything
Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher. His talk, “The End of the World(s)” can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxORkFUNpE8
-Denise Ferreira da Silva is Director and Professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. You can read more about her work, ‘Toward a Black Feminist Poethics: The Quest(ion) of Blackness Toward the End of the World’ here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5816/blackscholar.44.2.0081
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports businesses, the economy and the city in developing the Austrian capital’s creative industries and shaping its future trajectory. viennabusinessagency.at
Editorial Team: Mike Evans, Paul Feigelfeld, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Elisa Stockinger, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Zanshin.
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32min
October 02, 2023The Right to Breathe
What does it mean to have a right to clean air?
GUESTS
Daniela Gandorfer is Assistant Professor at University of Westminster Law School, London, with a PhD from Princeton University. Her research focuses on law and emerging modes of normativity in scientific and technological frontier spaces - such as quantum physics, digital and crypto technologies and psychedelics.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
The Logische Phantasie Lab (LoPh) is a non-profit organisation and investigative research agency. https://lo-ph.agency
Gas Exchanges & the Right to Breathe is an initiative by LoPh that investigates breathing injustices across the globe and is developing a right to breathe that can live up to the challenges and potentials of new digital technologies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_PrIf1a3-Q
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports businesses, the economy and the city in developing the Austrian capital’s creative industries and shaping its future trajectory. viennabusinessagency.at
Editorial Team: Mike Evans, Paul Feigelfeld, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Elisa Stockinger, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Zanshin.
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33min
July 11, 2023Senses
How can we design experiences beyond the screen?
GUESTS
Dan Koerner is the creative director at Sandpit, a creative digital studio based in Melbourne and Adelaide that specialises in immersive storytelling through new digital technologies.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Sandpit is a creative digital studio that creates physical, tactile projects that help people engage with the real world in different ways through technology. https://www.wearesandpit.com
“Velvet, Iron, Ashes” was the inaugural exhibition in the new Victoria Gallery showcasing treasures from the State Library of Victoria’s collection and from other major institutions and private collections. https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/via
Forced Entertainment is an experimental theatre company based in Sheffield, England, founded by Tim Etchells in 1984. https://www.forcedentertainment.com/
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports businesses, the economy and the city in developing the Austrian capital’s creative industries and shaping its future trajectory. viennabusinessagency.at
Editorial Team: Mike Evans, Paul Feigelfeld, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Elisa Stockinger, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Zanshin.
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26min
March 29, 2023Portals
A door to an alternate reality.
GUESTS
Space Popular is a research-driven architecture, design, and media studio that explores the future spirit of spatial experience through virtual reality, film, exhibitions, speculative writing, as well as buildings and objects. Space Popular is directed by Lara Lesmes & Fredrik Hellberg.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a writer, curator, strategist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
The Portal Galleries is a research project creating an archive of portals in fiction and popular culture. https://www.soane.org/exhibitions/space-popular-portal-galleries
Threaded Thresholds - The Fabric of Civic Teleporation is a proposal for a threaded portal infrastructure by Space Popular. https://designmanifestos.org/space-popular-threaded-thresholds-the-fabric-of-civic-teleportation/
TRANSCRIPT
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CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports businesses, the economy and the city in developing the Austrian capital’s creative industries and shaping its future trajectory. viennabusinessagency.at
Editorial Team: Mike Evans, Paul Feigelfeld, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Elisa Stockinger, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Zanshin.
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23min
March 08, 2023Means of Production
The changing role of cultural institutions.
GUESTS
Merel van Helsdingen founded Nxt Museum during the pandemic. It’s the first museum in the Netherlands dedicated to new media art.
Tina Lorenz is the Project Manager for Digital Development at Staatstheater Augsburg. She grew up a member of the Chaos Computer Club and is a founding member of the hackspaces metalab Vienna and Binary Kitchen Regensburg. Since 2012, she has published and spoken on the possibilities of digital theatre.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a strategist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Nxt Museum is the first museum in the Netherlands dedicated to new media art. https://nxtmuseum.com/
Chaos Computer Club is Europe’s largest association of hackers. They provide information on issues such as surveillance, privacy and freedom of information. https://www.ccc.de/en/
TRANSCRIPT
Click here to download the full transcript as PDF.
CREDITS
The Vienna Business Agency supports businesses, the economy and the city in developing the Austrian capital’s creative industries and shaping its future trajectory. viennabusinessagency.at
Editorial Team: Mike Evans, Paul Feigelfeld, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Elisa Stockinger, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Zanshin.\
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23min

FAQs about The Culture & Technology Podcast:

How many episodes does The Culture & Technology Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.