Welcoming crypto art legend and valued Interdependence subscriber Harm van den Dorpel on the podcast to discuss scarcity, genetic algorithms, managing expectations, limit experiences and his upcoming work, Markov's Dream
Follow Harm: https://twitter.com/harmvddorpel
Check out Harm's Work and writing: https://harm.work/
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2022-04-13 14:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Celebrating the release of Debit's album "The Long Count", composed using machine learning tools trained on the worlds largest archive of Mayan wind instruments!
We discuss the genesis of the project, working with the gorgeous grain of nascent AI instruments, ancestral technologies, travels through Mexico, the plague of musical conservatism, and the double edged sword of "world music".
Buy "The Long Count": 2022-04-06 22:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
Something different this week. After listening to some great episodes pulling apart the Bandcamp Epic Games acquisition and showing some skepticism about Web 3, I approached Money 4 Nothing podcast to have a convivial discussion about crypto for a collaborative episode.
We discuss common concerns and skepticisms, debate the motivations and significance of major labels in the space, ask if saving the 20th century music industry is worth it and a great deal more 2022-03-27 16:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We are happy to be back after Mat's COVID trip, discussing art prepping, Sterling's upcoming ArtBlocks piece, and his expert opinions on the state of ML, AR, VR and what is worth watching (and ignoring) about the impending metaverse.
Sterling's upcoming ArtBlocks reveal: https://www.artblocks.io/project/279
Sterling's art: http://ww...
2022-03-16 18:40:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all, after many references to this project in previous episodes we are really happy to welcome Adam and Luke from Context!
We discuss their efforts to make Web3 activity legible to humans, debate criticisms of the speculative nature of the Web3 art space, discuss the antecedent of drop culture, the shockwaves caused by making previously hidden financial activity transparent, and the potential for permissionless identities.
Check out Context: 2022-02-18 02:11:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Jacob from ZORA runs us through his latest essay, Hyperstructures, and the future of ZORA protocol. We pull apart how permissionless protocols and cc0 projects are gathering significant momentum and what this might mean for the future of the internet and art making! We also dive down the rabbit hole of some pretty psychedelic NFT use cases. Super fun and enriching as ever. Hope you are all having a great week!
Hyperstructures: 2022-02-10 01:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! This week we host the inimitable Cherie Hu to discuss the evolution of Water & Music into the first contributor led research DAO for the music industry, the changing definitions and focus of music & technology, Tik Tok and the politics (and occasional burden) of relatability. It was fun and revealing to work through the particularities and practicalities of making the jump into uncertain territory with Web 3 from a position in the more traditional music industry!
E...
2022-02-03 03:32:55 +0000 UTC View Post
As many might know, we have been working for the past year on a way to slowly migrate away from patreon through a self funded software initiative called channel.
Nothing is changing here in the short term, we will continue to post on patreon and appreciate all your support immeasurably.
This episode provides a primer on what channel is, why we are squadding up with Joshua Citarella and New Models (Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, Lil Internet) to create a bundled 'channe...
2022-01-25 18:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A wonderful conversation with Jack Callahan, Eric Farber and Mike Pollard of Nina, who are building a protocol for permanent collections of music on the fast and affordable Solana Blockchain.
Made all the more special that we come from similar experimental music scenes, we discuss the critical importance of establishing and archiving context for marginal musics, Myspace data loss and the revival of 00's era aesthetics, reanimating Scatman John, our our mutual appreciation of exper...
2022-01-13 17:30:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We invited artist Simon Denny over to our studio for the final podcast of the year to go deep on his practice, a commitment to exploring context as a medium, making crypto art and exhibitions before everyone cared, and Dotcom Seance, his wild new art project on Folia.
A perfect guest to close out the year! We will be taking a break for the first week of January to focus on something big to be announced soon, and will also be doing an AMA in the early new year - send over questions...
2021-12-29 17:30:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Big one this week, artist and researcher Kyle McDonald did the gruelling work to calculate the energy and carbon cost of Ethereum, and we try to break down those numbers, calculate their relative impact, discuss critiques of web 3 and debate why they are mostly coming from where they are coming from.
Ethereum Emissions: https://kylemcdonald.github.io/ethereum-emissions/
Kyle's art: 2021-12-17 10:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We had a long and wonderful chat with Ali after reading his "Who Goes Crypto?" piece on the increasing number of working people opting into investing money into the casino crypto and meme stocks rather than adhere to crumbling narratives over how the economy works, and for whom. We also dive into an area of his expertise, online disinformation and it's political ramifications.
Holly dips out half way through the discussion, she wasn't feeling great and we did not realise at the ti...
2021-12-09 14:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been wanting to have this conversation for some time! Scott Moore joins us to discuss Gitcoin's efforts to sustain open source developers, the emerging culture shock between late 20th century free software ideologies and new proposals to get developers paid (which parallels a lot of the culture shock happening in the art and music world rn), discuss the role crypto may play in funding and sustaining public goods, and deviate into why setting good precedent may be important in anticipati...
2021-11-30 11:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
We had a wonderful friday night hang with artist Deafbeef, who has had a crazy year transitioning from full time blacksmithing to becoming a respected artist known for his on-chain audio visual experiments. After an intense year we try to go as far off script as is possible and just talk about art, satire, music making and cooking videos.
Check out Deafbeef's work: https://www.deafbeef.com/
Follow Deafbeef on Twitte...
2021-11-18 14:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Wonderful to welcome Jess from Seed club, who help web communities make the transition to member owned DAOs!
Apply for Seed Club: https://seedclub.xyz/
Follow Jess: https://twitter.com/thattallguy
In conjunction with this years Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts titled "Iskra Delta "curated by Tjaša Pogačar we interviewed Janez Skrubej, the author of "The Cold War For Information technology: the inside story".
Inside indeed, as Janez was the former CEO of Iskra Delta, a major contender on the world stage for not only personal computers, but also large scale networked IT systems. Based within Tito’s Yugoslavia it was caught in the crosshairs in the cold war, workin...
2021-10-20 10:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Trent has been very influential to our thinking. There are few people who can talk with such fluency on matters we care about, even better build compelling alternatives.
In this we discuss how he and his wife Masha built the first crypto art registry, Ascribe, long before the concept of an NFT existed. We also discuss how his latest project Ocean Protocol proposes to hand us control of our data at the dawn of the next internet.
Follow Trent: 2021-10-05 15:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!! We often have discussions on here about web 3 representing a real opportunity for the independent music industry, and Bruno Guez is an expert on how that might end up transpiring, from his time working as a label head, directing the Merlin Network and more recently in building Revelator.
Check out Revelator: https://revelator.com/
Follow Bruno on Twitter: 2021-09-22 16:42:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Rhea Myers conceptualised a new art world by curiously tinkering with new tools and seeing what art she could make with them. We catch up with her to reflect on the earliest days of crypto art, her experiments with the medium and their art historical roots in 60's conceptualism, the current state of the field, Loot frenzy and the recent arrival of the dragonslayers, and some areas she feels are yet unexplored.
This was crazy fun.
Follow Rhea on twitter: 2021-09-07 13:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thrilled to welcome artist, educator and meme master Max Alper (La Meme Young) to join us to discuss running an online art school, sound and meme pedagogy, musical body building and deliver an on the ground report of crypto excessiveness arriving in his new home of Puerto Rico.
Learn music with La Meme Young: https://www.patreon.com/la_meme_young
Follow his incredible Instagram: 2021-08-25 13:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Our first ever in person discussion this week with writer and curator Shumon Basar to discuss his new book with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Extreme Self, published in accompaniment with the exhibition "Age of You" most recently hosted at Jameel Art Centre, Dubai.
We discuss a number of neologisms that appear in the book, not least Shumon's concept of "Emotional Capitalism", the growing and alarming gulf between reality and the stories we have to comprehend it, and...
2021-08-13 15:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
thanks again for your support! We have a great cast of people joining us over the next few weeks. In line with our recent emphasis on collective character development, we invited Arif Khan and Juliet Gardner of Alethea AI to discuss the incoming age of synthetic media, collectively and autonomously created characters, their concept of interactive NFTs and much more
Check out Alethea AI: https://alethea.ai/&n...
2021-08-03 18:42:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Super excited to share this one, on the advent of our collaboration for Holly+, we are joined by Chris Deaner and Yotam Mann of Never Before Heard Sounds, a brand new company releasing AI music tools, to discuss approachable AI tools for music making, the inevitable model economy, new approaches to DAWs and the Holly+ project more generally!
Never Before Heard Sounds: 2021-07-14 14:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post
If you have spent any time online recently, you have no doubt seen an explosion of remarkable images generated from text with Latent Visions, VQGAN and CLIP. We spoke to Adverb, the creator of Latent Visions, about his project, Promptism, and where we see these applications developing in the next few years (or at this pace, months).
Unmissable discussion with someone who has contributed so much to the field this year!
Follow Adverb: 2021-07-06 20:18:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy to welcome activist and science communicator Zion Lights to discuss Energy Justice, the scientific consensus around Nuclear Power, the shaky morality of Degrowth positions, Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and her new advocacy organisation, Emergency Reactor!
Zion Lights: http://www.zionlights.co.uk/
Join Emergency Reactor: 2021-06-23 21:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Happy to be back! We ended up travelling to get vaccinated and took a short break from recording, but are now back in the saddle!
Thrilled this week to invite artist and author Emily Segal, whose debut auto-fictional novel “Mercury Retrograde” tells the story of a young artists attempt to reconcile the abstract landscape of overfunded startups and the art world, set in New York between Occupy and the Trump Presidency. We discuss what can be learned from the post-inter...
2021-06-12 02:22:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, this week we are thrilled to invite author and developer Daniel Suarez, whose self published science fiction book Daemon became a cult success for its hard science fiction depiction of a narrow AI preprogrammed to re-order the world after the death of it's game developer author. We discuss Daemon and it's follow up Freedom™, how those books inspired aspects of the formation of Ethereum, the importance of reframing narratives through art, and Daniel's more recent work, Delta-V, ...
2021-05-28 03:06:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing our DAO thread we are thrilled to be joined by Aaron & Priyanka of OpenLaw, instrumental in formulating and passing the Wyoming DAO legislation, and stewards of NFT art collection DAO Flamingo, Tempest DAO and The LAO. We discuss what a DAO is, what the legislation means for human and nonhuman DAOs, art collecting in web3 and how DAO governance has been working in practice.
This is a great introduction to DAOs and early experiments in the medium for the unfamiliar!<...
2021-05-18 03:48:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Follow Jon: https://twitter.com/jgkoomey
Turning Numbers into Knowledge: http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com/
Estimating Bitcoin Electricity Use: A Beginner’s Guide: https://www.coincenter.org/estimating-bitcoin-electric...
2021-05-11 01:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Rully Shabara: https://www.rullyshabara.id/
Senyawa: https://www.rullyshabara.id/senyawa
Alkisah: https://alkisah.net/
Participating label list: https://alkisah.net/track-list/
Raung Jagat: 2021-04-29 16:03:22 +0000 UTC View Post