Thomas, BTRtoday

By Thomas, BTRtoday

Thomas grew up in Northern California where he fell in love with music and photography while going to punk shows and shooting skate photos. He photography in college, which may or may not qualify him... more

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April 26, 2016 Dark Content
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Projection, Whitechapel Gallery, London
This Week:
Artists Franco and Eva Mattes discuss their latest project, Dark Content. The project explores the world of content moderators, the invisible work force of actual human beings responsible for keeping graphic, offensive, and violent videos and images out of social media and search results. Google, Facebook, Twitter --- really almost any social platform you can think of ---- employs moderators, yet the work they do, and the workers themselves, are totally invisible to the general public. For Dark Content Franco and Eva conducted a series of anonymous interviews with moderators and turned their words into animated short videos. These videos are only visible on the Dark Net, a part of the Internet that allows for total anonymity and must be accessed through a special browser called Tor.
Playlist
00:00 BTR Today
00:46 Franco Mattes
03:23 Dark Content
05:45 Content Moderators
07:46 Working at McDonalds
09:01 Online and Offline
10:44 Video Avatars
13:53 Dark Net
16:16 Morality and Politics
20:07 Cultural Power
26:00 Finish
00:00 - BTR Today
00:46 - Franco Mattes
03:23 - Dark Content
05:45 - Content Moderators
07:46 - Working at McDonalds
09:01 - Online and Offline
10:44 - Video Avatars
13:53 - Dark Net
16:16 - Morality and Politics
20:07 - Cultural Power
26:00 - Finish
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26min
April 19, 2016 Christine Osinski
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This week:
Artist Christine Osinski has a new book of photos called Summer Days Staten Island. The project, shot in the early 1980s, documents the working class neighborhoods of Staten Island, where Christine moved after getting priced out of Manhattan. I spoke with Christine about her Staten Island book, her evolution as a photographer, and what images from 30 years in the past have to tell us about our present.
Playlist
00:00 BTR Today
00:41 Summer Days: Staten Island
03:21 Christine Osinski
05:10 An Interesting Place
07:57 Portraits
11:37 Boy With a Gun
14:08 Go Kart
16:36 Fixing Machines
19:24 Boys and a Car
22:05 Strange Trip
24:44 Then and Now
26:05 Digital
28:55 Back to Staten Island
31:06 Finish
00:00 - BTR Today
00:41 - Summer Days: Staten Island
03:21 - Christine Osinski
05:10 - An Interesting Place
07:57 - Portraits
11:37 - Boy With a Gun
14:08 - Go Kart
16:36 - Fixing Machines
19:24 - Boys and a Car
22:05 - Strange Trip
24:44 - Then and Now
26:05 - Digital
28:55 - Back to Staten Island
31:06 - Finish
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32min
April 19, 2016 Christine Osinski
This week:
Artist Christine Osinski has a new book of photos called Summer Days Staten Island. The project, shot in the early 1980s, documents the working class neighborhoods of Staten Island, where Christine moved after getting priced out of Manhattan. I spoke with Christine about her Staten Island book, her evolution as a photographer, and what images from 30 years in the past have to tell us about our present.
Playlist
00:00 - BTR Today
00:41 - Summer Days: Staten Island
03:21 - Christine Osinski
05:10 - An Interesting Place
07:57 - Portraits
11:37 - Boy With a Gun
14:08 - Go Kart
16:36 - Fixing Machines
19:24 - Boys and a Car
22:05 - Strange Trip
24:44 - Then and Now
26:05 - Digital
28:55 - Back to Staten Island
31:06 - Finish
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April 12, 2016 The Malware Museum
"This week:
Cyber-security expert Mikko Hypponen has been studying and collecting computer viruses for 25 years. His newest project, called The Malware Museum, brings together some of the most interesting, and most artistic, computer viruses from the 80s and early 90s, a time when malware was spread via floppy disks instead of the Internet. Mikko says that in the early days malware programs were as much about technical acumen as they were about creative expression.
Mars Land from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Walker from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Crash from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Skynet from The Malware Museum and archive.org
LSD from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Casino from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Marine from The Malware Museum and archive.org
ELVIRA G from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Playlist
00:00 BTR Today
00:45 Malware Museum
02:51 Mikko Hypponen
04:44 Interesting Viruses
05:53 The Casino Virus
07:51 Virus Aesthetics
10:42 Virus Writers
12:19 Viruses Then and Now
15:47 Corporate Viruses
19:45 Transportation and Cyber-security
24:43 Cyber threats today
26:44 BTR Today
28:00 Finish
00:00 - BTR Today
00:45 - Malware Museum
02:51 - Mikko Hypponen
04:44 - Interesting Viruses
05:53 - The Casino Virus
07:51 - Virus Aesthetics
10:42 - Virus Writers
12:19 - Viruses Then and Now
15:47 - Corporate Viruses
19:45 - Transportation and Cyber - security
24:43 - Cyber threats today
26:44 - BTR Today
28:00 - Finish
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28min
April 12, 2016 The Malware Museum
This week:
Cyber-security expert Mikko Hypponen has been studying and collecting computer viruses for 25 years. His newest project, called The Malware Museum, brings together some of the most interesting, and most artistic, computer viruses from the 80s and early 90s, a time when malware was spread via floppy disks instead of the Internet. Mikko says that in the early days malware programs were as much about technical acumen as they were about creative expression.
Mars Land from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Walker from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Crash from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Skynet from The Malware Museum and archive.org
LSD from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Casino from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Marine from The Malware Museum and archive.org
ELVIRA G from The Malware Museum and archive.org
Playlist
00:00 - BTR Today
00:45 - Malware Museum
02:51 - Mikko Hypponen
04:44 - Interesting Viruses
05:53 - The Casino Virus
07:51 - Virus Aesthetics
10:42 - Virus Writers
12:19 - Viruses Then and Now
15:47 - Corporate Viruses
19:45 - Transportation and Cyber - security
24:43 - Cyber threats today
26:44 - BTR Today
28:00 - Finish
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April 05, 2016 The Tea Project
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March 19, 2012 - Tea Project performance in conjunction with Enemy Kitchen by Michael Rakowitz in Chicago, IL. (Photo by Greg Broseus) via aaronhughes.org
Porcelain cups used in The Tea Project
The Tea Project gallery installation
This Week:
Artists Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg discuss The Tea Project, a project that grew out of Aaron's encounters with tea, and being offered tea, while deployed in Kuwait and Iraq as a member of the Illinois Army National Guard. The Tea Project takes a variety of forms, but it's centered around a performance in which a small audience comes together with Aaron for a discussion over tea. During the performance stories are shared and tea is served in special porcelain cups made together by Amber and Aaron. The cups are cast to resemble the styrofoam cups given to detainees at Guantanamo Bay, which the prisoners often decorated with flowers and arabesques. For The Tea Project, Amber and Aaron made over 700 of these porcelain cups, one to represent every person held at Guantanamo. The project hopes to create a space for discussion and reflection on issues ranging from detention and Islamophobia to racism and human rights.
Aaron and Amber are hosting Tea Project in Chicago over the next two weeks. For more information about those events visit LinksHall.org.
Playlist
00:00 BTR Today
00:40 The Tea Project
02:59 Origin Stories
07:20 Encounters with Tea
10:41 Return to Iraq
15:16 WW1 to Guantanamo
19:07 Tea Performance
25:03 The Domestic and Destruction
28:39 Veteran Art
30:54 Reactions
33:35 Returning the Cups
38:47 Finish
00:00 - BTR Today
00:40 - The Tea Project
02:59 - Origin Stories
07:20 - Encounters with Tea
10:41 - Return to Iraq
15:16 - WW1 to Guantanamo
19:07 - Tea Performance
25:03 - The Domestic and Destruction
28:39 - Veteran Art
30:54 - Reactions
33:35 - Returning the Cups
38:47 - Finish
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39min
April 05, 2016 The Tea Project
March 19, 2012 - Tea Project performance in conjunction with Enemy Kitchen by Michael Rakowitz in Chicago, IL. (Photo by Greg Broseus) via aaronhughes.org
Porcelain cups used in The Tea Project
The Tea Project gallery installation
This Week:
Artists Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg discuss The Tea Project, a project that grew out of Aaron's encounters with tea, and being offered tea, while deployed in Kuwait and Iraq as a member of the Illinois Army National Guard. The Tea Project takes a variety of forms, but it's centered around a performance in which a small audience comes together with Aaron for a discussion over tea. During the performance stories are shared and tea is served in special porcelain cups made together by Amber and Aaron. The cups are cast to resemble the styrofoam cups given to detainees at Guantanamo Bay, which the prisoners often decorated with flowers and arabesques. For The Tea Project, Amber and Aaron made over 700 of these porcelain cups, one to represent every person held at Guantanamo. The project hopes to create a space for discussion and reflection on issues ranging from detention and Islamophobia to racism and human rights.
Aaron and Amber are hosting Tea Project in Chicago over the next two weeks. For more information about those events visit LinksHall.org.
Playlist
00:00 - BTR Today
00:40 - The Tea Project
02:59 - Origin Stories
07:20 - Encounters with Tea
10:41 - Return to Iraq
15:16 - WW1 to Guantanamo
19:07 - Tea Performance
25:03 - The Domestic and Destruction
28:39 - Veteran Art
30:54 - Reactions
33:35 - Returning the Cups
38:47 - Finish
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April 05, 2016 Art Uncovered: The Tea Project
Artists Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg discuss TEA, a project that grew out of Aaron's encounters with tea, and being offered tea while deployed in Kuwait and Iraq as a member of the Illinois Army National Guard.
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0min
March 29, 2016 Art Under Threat
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This week:
2015 was a depressing year in terms of artistic freedom of expression around the world. According to the group Freemuse -- which documents violations of artistic freedom around the world -- killings, attacks, abductions, and imprisonments of artists were up 20% from 2014 with China, Iran and Russia leading the way as top offenders. Freemuse recently just published their annual Art Under Threat Report, and I recently got a chance to speak with the organization's Executive Director, Ole Reitov about the report. We discussed his findings, the challenges of documenting artistic censorship, and why music is targeted more than any other art form.
Playlist
00:00 BTR Today
01:42 Freemuse
03:11 Threat Report
05:11 What Drives Censorship
08:01 Censoring Music
11:24 Changes in Iran?
13:57 Hollywood Self-Censorship
16:49 Gathering Data
19:53 Violations on the Rise
22:35 The New Europe
24:24 Paris Attacks
25:38 Threats in 2016
27:18 BTR Today
28:19 Finish
00:00 - BTR Today
01:42 - Freemuse
03:11 - Threat Report
05:11 - What Drives Censorship
08:01 - Censoring Music
11:24 - Changes in Iran?
13:57 - Hollywood Self - Censorship
16:49 - Gathering Data
19:53 - Violations on the Rise
22:35 - The New Europe
24:24 - Paris Attacks
25:38 - Threats in 2016
27:18 - BTR Today
28:19 - Finish
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...more
29min
March 29, 2016 Art Under Threat
This week:
2015 was a depressing year in terms of artistic freedom of expression around the world. According to the group Freemuse -- which documents violations of artistic freedom around the world -- killings, attacks, abductions, and imprisonments of artists were up 20% from 2014 with China, Iran and Russia leading the way as top offenders. Freemuse recently just published their annual Art Under Threat Report, and I recently got a chance to speak with the organization's Executive Director, Ole Reitov about the report. We discussed his findings, the challenges of documenting artistic censorship, and why music is targeted more than any other art form.
Playlist
00:00 - BTR Today
01:42 - Freemuse
03:11 - Threat Report
05:11 - What Drives Censorship
08:01 - Censoring Music
11:24 - Changes in Iran?
13:57 - Hollywood Self - Censorship
16:49 - Gathering Data
19:53 - Violations on the Rise
22:35 - The New Europe
24:24 - Paris Attacks
25:38 - Threats in 2016
27:18 - BTR Today
28:19 - Finish
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FAQs about Thomas, BTRtoday:

How many episodes does Thomas, BTRtoday have?

The podcast currently has 125 episodes available.