RE/Search Conversations

William Bennett joined us at the RE/Search headquarters to talk about art, music, technology, religion, and other miscellaneous thoughts that streamed through the consciousness of Bennett, Vale, and Wallace. Part 1 of 2.

Mary Lawler and Jean Caffeine come by RE/Search office to talk about their song writing and life in the 1970s-80s in San Francisco. They acoustically perform several of their hits during the podcast.

John Shirley is a cyberpunk pioneer (along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling). He tells about how he started writing ...

Artist Carolee Schneemann's evocative performance and body art began in the early 1960s and remains iconic and relevant to this day. We visited Carolee in upstate New York at her family's "historic" digs where she lives with her cats and continues her work.

Wolf Eyes was in town and visited the RE/Search office to talk to us about their eclectic and long-standing musical collaboration.

Vale interviews Sumeet Banerji and Jerry Connolly. The three talk about Sumeet’s novel “Ice Party,” physical versus digital design processes, live music’s power, evocative odors, the insidiousness of marketing, curated everything, anathema words, and emoji conversations.

All the way from Hamburg, the experimental documentary filmmaker Peter Sempel stops in for this episode to discuss his process of filmmaking, the longevity of punk, how Jonas Mekas helped kickstart Sempel’s career, his newest project, and favorite animals. Originally recorded as a TV episode of The Counterculture Hour.

Zine-maker Marc Fischer , maker of Temporary Services zines, and Museum of Capitalism's Timothy Furstnau stopped by the RE/Search office to share ideas.

Robert Conway, who manages the trust of Bruce Conner, talks with RE/Search. The conversation includes Conway's interviews of friends and associates of Conner’s, the defining criteria of an artist and how we all might define ourselves as such, Conner’s inkblot series, and biography as art form.

Tyler Hubby's film "Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present" is now out and making the rounds. Tyler visited the RE/Search office and filled us in on that and more.