In our final episode of the first season of Wordlende, we speak to Simon Kirby: an artist and professor of 'language evolution' at the University of Edinburgh. His work parallels scientific and artistic investigations of cultural evolution and the origins of human uniqueness, particularly the evolution of language. We talk about his numerous artistic projects such as Cybraphon, which won a BAFTA in 2009, and investigate deeply into the thought behind the album artwork Simon kindly created for us. Its a super-long-jam-packed-multidisciplinary-season-finale of an episode with many interesting points of inquiry throughout.

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