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Unlocked (first released to subscribers 19 March 2024) --> https://newmodels.io _ How does media actually work in 2024, which is to say in a time of omnipresent AI? And what kind of subject is this era of media producing? On this ep, we speak with K Allado-McDowell—the author, with GPT-3, of Pharmako-AI, Amor Cringe, and Air Age Blueprint, and founder of the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI—about how media is evolving. Specifically, we ask about rise of “neural media,” which K has theorized as developing out of network media in the mid-2010s amid increasing human-AI interaction. Hearing K describe neural media's mechanics, it seems inevitable that our ideas of individuality and identity formation, even what it means to communicate as a human (among other living beings) are about to be majorly recalibrated. For more: @kalladomcdowell (IG & X) “Designing Neural Media” (2023), Gropius Bau Journal https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/gropius-bau/programm/journal/2023/k-allado-mcdowell-designing-neural-media "Am I slop? Am I Agentic? Am I Earth" (2025), The Long Now https://longnow.org/ideas/identity-neural-media-ai/
This is a preview — for the full episode, subscribe. | https://newmodels.io https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com _ British artist Mark Leckey — creator of famed club culture docu-hallucination, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), winner of the 2008 Turner Prize, and longtime NTS Radio host — discusses the terms of art-making in our technological present and our increasingly medieval relationship to representation. His show “3 Songs from the Liver” was on view at Gladstone Gallery, NY, Nov 2024 - Feb 2025. “AI outputs are not “images” as we know them. And if we try to understand them in that way, then we’re really…. f*cked, you know?” Following this conversation, keep listening for “Enter Through Medieval Wounds” a radio play by Mark Leckey, which first appeared in essay form in Heavy Traffic V (Fall 2024). For more: https://markleckey.com https://www.nts.live/shows/mark-leckey https://www.gladstonegallery.com/exhibition/13694/3-songs-from-the-liver/installation-views Episode image adapted from Mark Leckey, "Carry Me into The Wilderness" (Icon), 2022
This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 13 Feb 2025 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io Part 2 of this NM Greenroom features Amnesia Scanner's Ville Haimala & French artist Freeka Tet discussing the work they do in parallel to their AS collaboration. For Ville, this includes developing scores and sound design with Anne Imhof for her monumental performance-installations; while Freeka discusses his recent music video for The Weeknd. In Part 1 (released 9 Feb 2025) AS's Ville Haimala & Martti Kalliala, together with regular collaborator Freeka Tet speak about their most recent release, AS HOAX (PAN, 2024) and the project's innovations within the post-streaming subcultural industrial complex. For more: @amensiascanner @freekatet @villehaimala (IG) https://p-a-n.org/product/amnesia-scanner-freeka-tet-hoax-pan-148/
This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 9 Feb 2025 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io _ Ville Haimala & Martti Kalliala of the experimental music duo @amnesia-scanner & regular collaborator Freeka Tet join NM to discuss AS HOAX (@pan_hq 2024) — both the making-of and the world into which the dual record project was released. This is Part 1 of 2. It focuses on the Amnesia + Freeka project and its innovations within the post-streaming subcultural industrial complex. Part 2 (coming soon) expands to Ville & Freeka’s activity outside of Amnesia Scanner, including recent work with artists Anne Imhof and The Weeknd. Recorded at the end of 2024, the conversation presciently channels the noise, distortion, and attentional overload that has quickly come to characterize the info-sphere of 2025. For more: HOAX (PAN, 2024) https://p-a-n.org/product/amnesia-scanner-freeka-tet-hoax-pan-148/ Related: Joshua Citarella, Doomscroll: Trevor Paglen: Mind Hacking, AI and Psyops Capitalism,” 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--0kYOwOoDQ Joshua Citarella, Doomscroll: Matty Healy: Pop Culture in the 21st Century, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdCdpnz0wDU&t=1732s
This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 29 Jan 2024 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io // One week after the 2025 US presidential inauguration and less than a month since fires devastated LA, American journalist James Pogue and energy specialist Ellie Holbrook talk us through the current political terrain. James has been covering the New Right since the early 2010s. His back-to-back features this month on the Republican party’s uneasy Tech/MAGA alliance (NYTimes) and the demise of the Dems (Vanity Fair) are, together, an essential primer for how power works today. With literal power (fuel) being part of this equation, Ellie shares her knowledge on the energy trade and LNG markets in particular. What follows in an orientation for our strange new real. See also: @hellholbrook (IG) @jhenseonpogue (x) Forthcoming: James Pogue, The Natural Division (Pantheon) is “a first-person journey deep into a region at the epicenter of both America’s megafires and militia politics, told through California’s far-flung northern State of Jefferson.” NM82: James Pogue on American Futures (2024) https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/prvw-nm82-james-pogue-on-american-futures NM54: Damn Nation w/ James Pogue (2022) https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/damn-nation-james-pogue-nm54
This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 27 Oct 2024 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io Jay Springett is a writer, researcher, consultant, musician, podcaster, Royal Society of Arts Fellow, New Centre instructor, and decade long admin of solarpunks.net. Currently at work on a book exploring the history of Dungeons & Dragons (the so-called metaverse), Jay joins New Models to speak about the proliferation of “worlds” (perhaps in lieu of the 20th century public sphere) and strategies for existing within them. For more: thejaymo.net Jay’s podcasts: https://thejaymo.net/permanentlymoved/ & https://experience.computer/
On the occasion of Loretta Fahrenholz’s exhibition “A Coin From Thin Air” at Amant in Brooklyn, Carly Busta and artist/writer Jak Ritger discuss art making, AI, and value in a time of infinite content. 02:45 - Intro by Amant chief curator, Tobi Maier 05:00 - Carly gives context on Fahrenholz’s practice 15:00 - Jak x Carly discuss the show’s works & themes 36:50 - Q&A feat. Joshua Citarella, Dena Yago, Gideon Jacobs, Anika Jade Levy, Brian Droitcour, Dru Ritger, and Peter Fend, among others Exhibition Guide: Loretta Fahrenholz “A Coin From Thin Air” https://dcld85wa7rf0u.cloudfront.net/api/file/5ZatFCPRhKKTUQjpYsxP Watch: Loretta Fahrenholz, Trash The Musical (2023, HD, 37 min) https://vimeo.com/1046803248 Courtesy of Reena Spaulings Fine Art This talk took place on Saturday, January 4, 2025 at Amant. https://www.amant.org/exhibitions/95-loretta-fahrenholz-a-coin-from-thin-air The exhibition remains on view through February 16, 2025. Episode image: courtesy K8 Howl
Full episode released to subscribers: 20 Jun 2024 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io _ Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content Written & read by Caroline Busta Document Journal SS24 https://www.documentjournal.com/2024/05/technical-images-film01-angelicism-art-showtime-true-detective-shein/ What if, in a time of infinity content, a meta-reading of the shape and feel of content has become a survival skill? What if we thought about generative AI more as an expression of an epochal shift in human communication than a root cause? More than transmitting specific information, “content”—whether a mukbang video or this 3600 word essay—is now foremost a conductor of “vibes.” "Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content" was written in early 2024 by Caroline Busta for Document Journal SS 2024. Editors: Drew Zeiba & Camille Sojit Pechat Audio production: Lil Internet In the training data: Vilém Flusser, Kevin Munger, K Allado McDowell, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Jon Rafman, Dean Kissick, Theo Anthony, Lola Jusidman, Film01, Bernard Stiegler, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Chris Blohm, Niklas Bildstein Zaar, Andreas Grill, Anna Uddenberg, Simon Denny, Trevor Paglen, Joshua Citarella, Jak Ritger, Hari Kunzru, Loretta Fahrenholz, Dorian Electra, Michael Franz, Kolja Reichart, Shein, Lil Internet & the NM Discord.
This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 14 Dec 2024 | Subscribe --> newmodels.io // In part due to the rise of AI-enabled systems, we are witnessing a shift in where and how the creative act takes place. It is a phenomenon that artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst have been grappling with for more than a decade through their music and their work with machine learning and its governance. With their exhibition “The Call” on view at the Serpentine in London through February 2nd and their book All Media is Training Data out this week, Holly and Mat join NM to talk about a new paradigm of artmaking and artist subject. We also discuss a new kind of collector and the tech-literate gallerists that are bridging legacy cultural systems with this particular future. For more: herndondryhurst.studio @hollyherndon & @matdryhurst Source.Plus public diffusion model Spawning.ai data governance for generative AI "The Call" Serpentine North Gallery, London All Media is Training Data (Serpentine, König, 2024)
This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 30 Nov 2024 | Subscribe --> newmodels.io NYC filmmaker-actor-sibling-duo Betsey Brown and Peter Vack join NM to reflect on the making and reception of their own and each other’s films, Actors (Brown, 2021) and www.RachelOrmont.com (Vack, 2024). Deliberately tuned to the affective frequency of the internet (desire, desperation, outrage), both works proceeded to inflame online channels to the point of being overshadowed by controversy—at least initially. With a little distance, we approach the films on their own terms: contemporary explorations of the psychoanalytic depths of self, society, and platform in a cyber-networked present. Watch: www.actors.movie & www.RachelOrmont.com Read: Peter Vack, Sillyboy https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D46C346T/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 IG: @me_betseybrown/ & @themasterofcum Episode image: adapted from Jon Rafman’s 2024 series of Peter and Betsey for Sex magazine #14
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