New Models

Dec 07 2024 107 ep. 52 mins 291

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Public RSS | Art, tech, politics, pop culture, climate | Hosts: Caroline Busta, Lil Internet | Est. 2018. ( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ°)ʖ ͡°) | https://newmodels.io This is the public RSS. | To access weekly content and the NM Discord, subscribe via https://patreon.com/newmodels or https://newmodels.substack.com

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Preview | NM Greenroom: filmmakers/actors Betsey Brown & Peter Vack (2024)

Dec 07 2024 42 mins

Full Ep released to subscribers: 30 Nov 2024 | 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

Preview | NM Talkcore: writer Gideon Jacobs on Trump as image

Nov 15 2024 20 mins

Full Ep released to subscribers: 11 Nov 2024 | newmodels.io // Writer Gideon Jacobs joins NM the day after the US election to discuss his essay “Trump l’Oeil,” which ran in the LA Review of Books, November 3. Opening with the images of Trump working at McDonalds, the piece explores what happens when images start conveying a realness that is untethered from reality; images tha

Preview | Remilia Quarterly editor, L. B. Dobis (NM84)

Oct 17 2024 29 mins

Full Ep released to subscribers: 17 Sep 2024 | newmodels.io // Remilia Corporation, founded in 2021 by Charlotte Fang, describes itself as an institution, a lifestyle brand, and an artist’s colony, among other things. As the group behind the influential and infamous Milady NFT project, Remilia also exemplifies a particularly contemporary artistic practice—one in which an onlin

Preview | NM Dispatch: TheJacket - Lil Internet (Sept 2024)

Sep 30 2024 14 mins

Full Ep released to subscribers: 1 Oct 2024 | newmodels.io // This NM Dispatch monologue by @lilinternet is not about a physical place but a region of the internet—the increasingly adversarial realm of online shopping. _ Somewhat relatedly, we put together this product shortlist of baby items that we hope those new to (or curious about) early parenthood might find useful. https

Preview | NM Talkcore: author Alex Kazemi

Sep 10 2024 19 mins

Full Ep released to subscribers: 9 Sep 2024 | To join New Models, find us via newmodels.io // With this first episode of NM Talkcore we speak with Alex Kazemi, author of New Millennium Boyz (2023). In doing so, we bring back the format of NM TopSoil, a freeform conversation about things that are mutually top-of-mind. For this ep, that includes, among other items: personal branding

Preview | Paz de la Huerta & Bjarne Melgaard in conversation (NM83)

Jul 31 2024 8 mins

Full Ep released to subscribers: 1 Aug 2024 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com // A few weeks ago, artist and friend of New Models, Bjarne Melgaard reached out with an episode proposal. He'd become close with actor and artist Paz de la Huerta, whose debut solo show had just closed at Rutkowski;68 Gallery in Paris. Bjarne had been paint

Preview | Journalist James Pogue on American Futures (NM82)

Jul 19 2024 20 mins

Full Ep released to subscribers: 21 July 2024 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com // From AI to global power alignments to domestic political sentiments in the US and EU, 2024 is shaping up to be a frontier zone year of an era to come. Joining us on this episode is journalist James Pogue who is no stranger to the edges of the political

Preview | Psyberspace w/ Trevor Paglen (NM68)

Jun 02 2024 23 mins

Full ep released to subscribers: 10 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com _ Artist Trevor Paglen speaks with New Models about systems of “influence” past and present – pointing to a transition from a world of surveillance capitalism that is potentially becoming one of PSYOPS capitalism. This conversation follows Paglen’s p

Unlocked | NM x Heavy Traffic: Seth Price "Machine Time" (Part 1)

May 09 2024 50 mins

This reading was first released to subscribers: 05 Feb 2024 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com“ For millennia one had measured oneself against the cycles of the seasons and the heavens, or against changing social mores and geopolitical configurations. To now be compelled to measure one’s life against the pace of machine time invite

Preview | NM Special Report: Ye and the Future of Content w/ Dean Kissick

Mar 12 2024 24 mins

Full Ep released to subscribers: 08 Mar 2024 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com // One of the most compelling examples, so far, of media made using AI content generation is the video that artist Jon Rafman created for Kanye West’s new album with Ty Dolla $ign, "Vultures." Rather than aiming for maximum realism in thes