Artists and Hackers

In our final episode of the season we reconnect with Michael Weinberg, Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, for the recent legal cases revolving around generative AI models and the continuing impact of the monkey selfie legal case. Episode page with notes and transcript This season of the podcast was produced with the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law an

In today’s episode, we’re looking at issues that come up in Indigenous communities, and one initiative to respond to the limitations of the law and to reassert cultural authority in one’s own heritage, culture and data. Episode notes In this season of the podcast we’re working with the Engelberg Center for Innovation Policy at NYU Law. In this episode, Dr. Jane Anderson tal

In this episode we speak to Brewster Kahle, the Founder and Chief Librarian of the Internet Archive on the occasion of Public Domain Day. We also speak to Amanda Levendowski, Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic on the concept of fair use, its history and application for artists. Full episode notes, transcription, links and bios can be found

Kat Walsh from Creative Commons joins us to talk about the history of Creative Commons as a 'hack on copyright.' Marc Weidenbaum speaks on the history of the Disquiet Junto, a long-running online distributed community creating new music in response to a weekly online composition challenge. Episode notes, credits and transcript In this season of the podcast we’re working in collab

This episode kicks off our season working with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. We talk about copyright and its limits; licenses and ethical open source; and the infamous monkey selfie legal case. This episode features conversations with Michael Weinberg, the Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU School of Law. We also sp

This episode features our special live podcast recording event we held February 2023 in New York City. Four of the artists from this season engage in a roundtable discussion on their art practice, teaching, pedagogy and more. Episode notes, transcript and links This season we’ve partnered with the New Media Caucus, an international non-profit formed to promote the development and

A Father's Lullaby is the name of an expansive ongoing research and storytelling project established by the new media artist Rashin Fahandej. Working with the formerly incarcerated, as well as her undergraduate students, the project highlights the role of fathers in raising children, and creates a space for paradigm shifting and social equity through a process of community co-creat

Speculative Design is an area of artistic and creative exploration and future-casting. Practitioners dream future possibilities to address societal challenges through design and create experimental projects in new territories. New media artist Sue Huang creates artworks addressing collective experience. Her projects probe ecological intimacies and explore the fluid borders between

Shawné Michaelain Holloway is a new media artist with a "noisy, experimental practice." Her performances and practice make use of constraints, pain and pleasure, speaking to issues of power, both in private, intimate space as well as in the public sphere. Full episode notes, transcript and credits Her projects often feature animal training, algorithmic scores or controls, and a re

KT Duffy likes to say they conjure entities into existence via code-based processes and digital fabrication. They consider themselves a 'duct tape programmer' and have a background in DIY community, which is evident in their many collaborations and their fondness for projects using 1990s green slime. Episode notes, transcript and credits This season of the podcast is produced with