New Models

Feb 08 2025 114 ep. 50 mins 295

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Public RSS | Art, tech, politics, pop culture, climate --> networked tech's impact on life | 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: Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, Pt. 1 (2025)

Feb 08 2025 25 mins

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 o

Preview | James Pogue & Ellie Holbrook on Turbo America (NM87)

Jan 31 2025 30 mins

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 2

Preview | Jay Springett on 'worlds' as medium (NM85)

Jan 30 2025 27 mins

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 Ne

NM Live | Busta x Ritger on Loretta Fahrenholz @ Amant, NYC 2025

Jan 13 2025 62 mins

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 f

NM Reads: Caroline Busta, "Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content" (Document, 2024)

Dec 31 2024 30 mins

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

Preview | Artists Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst on a new paradigm of artmaking (NM86)

Dec 13 2024 20 mins

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 le

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

Dec 07 2024 42 mins

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, despera

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

Nov 15 2024 20 mins

This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 11 Nov 2024 | Subscribe -- 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 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