Artists and Hackers Podcast
1) From Monkey Selfies to Machine Learning: Generative Art and the Public Domain
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 a...Show More
From Monkey Selfies to Machine Learning: Generative Art and the Public Domain
17:32 | Apr 30th, 2024
2) Intellectual Property and Indigenous Heritage
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...Show More
3) Fair Use, the Internet Archive and the Public Domain
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 ...Show More
4) Creating in a Commons: Conversations with Creative Commons and Disquiet Junto
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 dist...Show More
Creating in a Commons: Conversations with Creative Commons and Disquiet Junto
29:04 | Feb 27th, 2024
5) Lawyers and Hackers
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...Show More
6) New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists - Live Episode
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, tea...Show More
7) Immersive Media and Co-creation with Formerly Incarcerated Fathers
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 und...Show More
8) Erotic Ecologies and the Fluid Relationships Between Humans and A.I.
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 pr...Show More
9) A Meditation on Power on all Levels
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 p...Show More
10) Duct Tape Hacking and Joyful Resistance
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, w...Show More