Art Is Not a Thing
Art Is Not a Thing is a podcast series about art as a practice of critical inquiry, knowledge production and world-building. From media art, bio-art, sound art to digital activism, speculative design, or data storytelling, the series delves into artistic work that reflects on, questions, and reimagines our practices in and of the world.
The series is developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1.
Host: Hannah Balber
Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marlene Grinner
Editing: Hannah Balber, Ana-Maria Carabelea
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger
Design: Jelena Mönch
Podcasting since 2023 • 16 episodes
Art Is Not a Thing
Latest Episodes
Outsourcing Ethics: A Robot Speaks Our Violence
In the podcast episode, Hannah talks to artists Thomas Kvam and Frode Oldereid about their installation Requiem for an Exit - a piece featuring a towering robot delivering a haunting monologue about the darker side of humanity. The piece confro...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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18:51
Web of AI: Linking Homes and Battlefields
In today's episode, we talk to Sarah Ciston about their award-winning project, AI War Cloud Database. The project visualises the links between everyday life technologies and military infrastructure, and reflects on the increasing automation of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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18:57
Making Kin: Cells, Software, Synthetic Selves
In today’s episode, we are joined by artists Charlotte Jarvis and Zoran Srdić Janežič, and writer, educator, and curator Rick Dolphijn to discuss entities at the intersection of wetware, software, and hardware, and how they challenge our defini...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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36:01
Touching Memories
In this episode, host Ana Carabelea talks to Yulia Sion, Nuno Correia, and Michael Banissy about the power of haptics and sound in recreating and conveying memories, as a way to build empathy and bridge generational gaps in the digital age.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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32:50
Virtually Real: Writing Transmedia Spaces
In this episode we talk to Lara Lesmes + Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular, Pierre Christophe Gam, and Brooklyn J. Pakathi about spaces - private, public, real, virtual, but most importantly transmedia spaces that confuse these definitions a...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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41:13
