New web exhibition and announcements
Happy New Year!
As we get ready to unleash a new season of podcasts, this is a short email of announcements from Artists and Hackers.
H/F Gallery exhibition: New Rules
This year, through generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects we teamed up with the New Media Caucus on a series of episodes, a live event, and now an online exhibition.
The exhibition you are about to experience is the result of a collaboration between the New Media Caucus and the podcast Artist and Hackers. In it you will find the work of five diverse and revolutionary artists engaged in New Media Art. These works by artists KT Duffy, Sue Huang, Chelsea Thompto, Rashin Faharandej and Shawnee Michaelain Holloway, span a broad spectrum of themes, love, memory, family, gender identity, social inequality, speculative biology and even meteorology, through the lenses of learning machine algorithms, VR, animation, poetry, html, video and more. Through technology, these artists create modes of expression that would have otherwise been hard or impossible to achieve as well as reach others much more effectively than before. --Rene G. Cepeda, Curator
New Rules is made possible with funding from the National Endowment for Arts.
Public Domain 2024
The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because no one holds the exclusive rights, anyone can legally use or reference those works without permission.
We have an upcoming episode on the public domain! This year a number of new works enter the public domain, including:
The Internet Archive hosts the Public Domain Day 2024 Remix Contest. The deadline to submit a short film is January 17.
Winners will be announced and shown at the in-person Public Domain Day Celebration at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco on January 24, 2024, as well as our virtual celebration on January 25. All other participating videos will be added to a Public Domain Day Collection on archive.org and featured in a blog entry in January of 2024.
Fellow Travelers in Podcasting
While waiting for our new episodes to drop, perhaps you're interested in some of our friends and podcasts we admire?
Here's a non-exhaustive list of podcasts we are currently listening to:
Our Friend the Computer - A podcast exploring alternative computing histories and their relationship to society. Hosted by Camila Galaz and Ana Meisel. Sister project of The Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Foss and Crafts - "A podcast about free software, free culture, and making things together." They also host online meetups called Hack and Craft. Hosted by Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber and Christine Lemmer-Webber.
Wampum.codes - "Artist and Technologist Amelia Winger-Bearskin interviews native and indigenous people who make cool things with new technologies."
Tech Won't Save Us - "Taking inspiration from the Luddites, Tech Won’t Save Us isn’t simply about tearing down tech. It examines how technological development is constrained by the need to serve capitalist imperatives, which include controlling workers and commercializing everything." By Paris Marx and Eric Wickham
Thanks
We're looking forward to sharing our new season with you. In the meantime, please recommend our podcast to friends, write us reviews, and send us tips and feedback. You can find us on Mastodon.
Thanks!