tag: interviews

Interview with Australian National Radio about TikTok and China

I recently spoke with ABC (Australian National Radio) for a Real Vision show about TikTok and China, where I talked about the manipulative role of the TikTok interface, how its algorithmic feed both does and does not understand us, and …

Interview with Techtonic on WFMU Radio in NYC

I recently spoke with Mark Hurst, the host of Techtonic on WFMU Radio in NYC. We talked about Silicon Valley’s obsessions with growth, their war against sustainability and ethics, and artistic counteractions that invert big tech’s growth-obsessed capitalist logics. After …

CBC Interview as Part of Spark Retrospective

CBC Radio (Canada) featured me in the opening segment of its recent 16-year retrospective of the tech/culture show Spark, looking back at interviewees who had been “eerily predictive” about the future of social media, algorithms, etc. Other replayed guests included …

Platform Sweet Talk at Near Now in Nottingham

My work Platform Sweet Talk is currently installed at Near Now in Nottingham, England. The show is part of a series of exhibitions that make up Privacy Techtonics, a exhibition that features myself, Tara Kelton, Forensic Architecture, Yuri Pattison, Libby …

Interview with UN Today

I gave an interview with UN Today, the official magazine of the United Nations in Geneva. We spoke mostly about my new social platform Minus. Read the interview

ORDER OF MAGNITUDE at NeMe Arts Center Cyprus

My work ORDER OF MAGNITUDE will be part of Through the Mesh at NeMe Arts Center in Limassol, Cyprus. Curated by Patrick Lichty, this exhibition “features the work of artists who initially began to investigate the cultural space of the …

Interview about Minus with TV Cultura Brazil

I spoke about my social platform Minus with Renata Simões of TV Cultura (Brazil Public Television). The player should queue up at the start of our chat, but just in case it doesn’t, it’s 3 minutes in.

Interview with Karine Galland about Minus

I had a great conversation with Karine Galland about my social network Minus. Karine is an early user of the platform and a digital well being coach in Paris. She also wrote an article about her experience of Minus.

Interview with RTÉ (Ireland Public Radio)

I spoke with Luke Clancy of RTÉ (Ireland Public Radio) about making computer music in the 20th century, (resisting) Silicon Valley, my new social network Minus, NFTs and Tokenize This, and other topics that intersect with my arebyte show. The …

Podcast Interview with The Artian in Spain

I did a long form interview with Nir Hindi of The Artian podcast in Spain. The Artian focuses on how artists think, why art can influence business, and what innovators and business leaders can learn from artists. Airing over two …

Interview for COVID E-LIT: Digital Art During the Pandemic

I spoke with Anna Nacher, Scott Rettberg, and Soren Pold as part of their documentary film COVID E-LIT: Digital Art During the Pandemic. In their words: “COVID E-LIT: Digital Art During the Pandemic follows sixteen digital artists’ experiences of the …

Interview with German Public Radio about The Endless Doomscroller

I recently spoke with Deutschlandfunk Kultur about doomscrolling and The Endless Doomscroller. Listen below.

Recent Press about The Endless Doomscroller

Links to press articles and an interview with ABC News about The Endless Doomscroller

Dialogue with Geert Lovink on Media Art in the Age of Platform Capitalism

I first met Geert Lovink in 2013, while attending the Unlike Us #3 conference at the Institute for Network Cultures in Amsterdam (INC). I was there to speak about Facebook Demetricator, in what was at that time one of the …

Interview with Artribune Magazine in Rome

Last fall I did an interview with art critic and curator Valentina Tanni at Artribune Magazine in Rome. We talk about social media platforms, metrics, demetrication, the challenges of working against big tech, the wider world of net art, the …

Long-form Podcast Interview with 2343.org

Long-form interview with Simone Salis of the The Sim Show podcast (formerly called 2343). We talk at length about my film ORDER OF MAGNITUDE, Zuckerberg’s skewed sense of “community,” how ideology gets embedded in tools, the need for cross-disciplinary translators, …

“More, More, More” — Talking metrics, more, and ORDER OF MAGNITUDE on the 24/7 Podcast

My film ORDER OF MAGNITUDE is currently part of 24/7, an exhibition at Somerset House in London curated by Sarah Cook. As part of that exhibition, which closes in late February, Somerset House is producing a podcast series with artists …

Interviews with Ireland Public Radio

When I was in Dublin last month for events at The Hugh Lane, I sat down with Luke Clancy for the show Culture File on RTÉ Lyric FM (Ireland Public Radio). Culture File is “RTÉ Lyric FM’s flagship daily arts …

Interview about Social Media Demetrication on PBS

On Monday I spoke with Chicago PBS’ nightly news program Chicago Tonight, talking about social media metrics and my seven years of work on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram Demetricator. Read the story and watch the interview here.

Interview with CBC Radio about Twitter Demetricator

I had a great time talking with Nora Young of CBC Radio’s program Spark. We talk about social media metrics, what a number means (or doesn’t), and about hiding them on Twitter with Twitter Demetricator. To listen, click play above, …

Works and Interview Lead Off New Chinese/English Book on E-Performance

Arts Trends USA: An Anthology of EPerformance A discussion of my works and an interview with me leads off a new Chinese/English book on US arts trends. The volume, by professor and designer Ming Chen, is titled “Arts Trends USA: …

Interview with CBC Radio About Go Rando

I had a great time talking with Nora Young of CBC Radio about Go Rando and the effects of emotional surveillance on Facebook. The show it’s part of, called Spark “…explores how technology, innovation and design affects our lives.” To …

Interview with We Make Money Not Art

On the occasion of the Blinding Pleasures exhibition in London, I did an interview with Régine Debatty of We Make Money Not Art. We talked about Go Rando, how the Facebook News Feed shows you the world it thinks you …

Interview about ScareMail for I SPY Documentary Film

Interview clip (w/ myself and William Binney) about ScareMail from “I SPY With My 5 Eyes” Film Documentary (watch the whole film) I was very happy to be interviewed about ScareMail for a recently released online documentary film called “I …

Recent Interviews with Neural, WDCB Chicago, and More

A collection of interviews from the last six months with Neural, WDCB Chicago, the Media Arts Project, Smile Politely, and Interlochen