Artwrld Podcast
1) Ben Davis on What’s At Stake in Art Criticism Today
If you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak. When reading the criticism of Ben Davis, the feeling of stakes ...Show More
2) Filmmaker Bennett Miller on the Imperative of Artistic Innovation in the Age of AI
Around 2015, after finishing the acclaimed movie Foxcatcher, the filmmaker Bennett Miller began working on a documentary about AI. Though it was years before Chat GPT brought the technology to mainst...Show More
3) Christie’s Nicole Sales Giles on Making History With the First AI Art Auction
If you're in the art and tech space—or the art world writ large—you've probably been at least a little transfixed by the drama, controversy, and, ultimately, financial success attached to the Christie...Show More
4) Artist Stephanie Dinkins on How to Play the Long Ball With AI
Few things feel worse than being misunderstood. That’s especially the case when you’re persistently misunderstood—when, try as you might to convince someone of something you know to be true, it falls ...Show More
5) Metalabel's Yancey Strickler on Building a Post-Crypto Haven for Artists
A few years ago, the Kickstarter-cofounder and creative entrepreneur Yancey Strickler went down the crypto rabbit hole. In his brilliant 2019 essay “The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet,” he had ar...Show More
6) Tom Emrich on How to Prepare for an Augmented Art World
Back in 2014, after Google Glass was released, the tech journalist and entrepreneur Tom Emrich wore that notoriously before-its-time AR device for nearly a year, trying to find ways to integrate it in...Show More
7) NEW INC'S Salome Asega on Incubating Tomorrow's Art x Tech Superstars
With AI, blockchain, and augmented reality gradually but inexorably changing the nature of creative work, there has probably never been a time when planning one’s artistic career path has been more fr...Show More
8) Spawning's Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst on How to Build Humane AI for Artists
It’s a twist of history that the AI revolution first reached mainstream attention via visual art, with DALL-E, and yet artists have been among the technology’s biggest critics. Ownership of intellect...Show More
9) a16z crypto's Chris Lyons on What Comes After NFTs
Christopher Lyons is a visionary leader, entrepreneur, and President of Web3 Media at a16z crypto. Lyons joined a16z in 2013, first as chief of staff to co-founder Ben Horowitz. In 2021, he helped lau...Show More
10) Beeple on How His Art Reflects a Changing America
As a disruptive new administration arrives in Washington with pledges to hit the fast-forward button on Mars, AI, and crypto while simultaneously rolling back the clock on progressivism, it can be har...Show More