In 2005 I produced my own weekly interview based art program Different Bits. The station streamed live online and broadcast on the air at 104.1 in San Francisco. The following are archives of the broadcasts:
2/7/05 - Amy Franchescini of Future Farmers and Jonathan Meuser of the National Renewable Energy Lab. Discussion of art, ecology, and the possibilities of DIY hydrogen production using algae.
2/28/05 - War photographer Mark Brecke, just back from Sudan.
Mark Brecke on his experience being embedded with the Sudanese Liberation Army and documenting the genocide occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan.
3/7/05 - Installation artitst and robotics researcher Jamie Schulte.
Interview with robotics researcher/artist Jamie Schulte about his work subverting potential surveillance technologies, creating a collective mobile phone reporting system, emergence and artificial life.
3/14/05 - Political media artist Sheila Pinkel.
Renowned political artist Sheila Pinkel speaks about past and current projects, the role of the political artist in society, and the convergence of art, activism and technology.
Sheila Pinkel has been a political artist for the last thirty years. Recent works have included pieces about the aftermath of the Indochina Wars for Cambodian and Laotian Hmong refugees, lives of people living in remote tribal communities of Pakistan, museum guards, the history of the garment industry in Los Angeles and most recently, the prison-industrial complex. From 1983 to the present time she has been an international editor of Leonardo, a publication dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology.
3/21/05 - Lee Montgomery, founder of Neighborhood Public Radio.
A discussion of low power FM, community media, the FCC and indecency.
3/28/05 - Tad Hirsch, subverter of communications technology.
Straight from the labs of MIT comes the voice of Tad Hirsch, activist, inventor, artist.
A frequent collaborator with the institute for applied autonomy and grassroots advocacy groups, Tad works to subvert ubiquitous communications technologies of the corporate state. From txtmob, tech-glue of the RNC protests, to iSee, an inverse surveillance system, Tad's projects tangibly empower.
4/4/05 - Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats.
San francisco conceptual artist Jonathon Keats will discuss his work with "found processes," procedures that he discovers in the activities of everyday life, that he then appropriates for his art. Keats' latest project, "Divine Taxonomy", attempts to genetically engineer God in a laboratory, in order to determine whether God's DNA is more like that of an animal (e.g., a fruit fly) or like that of a bacterium (e.g., blue-green algae).
4/18/05 - New media artist Jon McCormack.
Acclaimed new media artist Jon McCormack joins us from Australia for a discussion of his work.
With a background in filmmaking and computer science, McCormack develops his work primarily through writing computer software. Strongly influenced by the new science of Artificial Life and the mediation of nature through technology, his work questions our nostalgic lament for a rapidly diminishing real world – a nature that is being redefined through technology.
4/25/05 - Visual artist and programmer Scott Draves.
Artist/programmer Scott Draves joins us in the studio for a conversation about his work with evolving visualization, abstract animation, cellular automata, fractals and the open source movement. Scott is best known for his project "Electric Sheep", a collaborative screensaver which produces complex visuals he calls fractal flames.
5/02/05 - Installation artist/researcher Christa Sommerer.
Internationally renowned media artist Christa Sommerer joins us remotely from Austria. Working with her collaborator Laurent Mignonneau since 1992 the duo have produced numerous installations, pioneering the use of natural interfaces to create a new language of interactivity based on artificial life and evolutionary image processes. We will discuss their most recent endeavour "Mobile Feelings II" as well as past work and the relationship between art and science.
5/16/05 - Biological computation researcher Christof Teuscher.
Artist and researcher Christof Teuscher joins us for a discussion of his work including his installation "Biowall" an exploration of electronic tissues, capable of evolving, self-repairing, self-replicating and learning. we will also discuss his research on the subjects of Alan Turing, Artificial Life, and unconventional computation.