UFO – Unidentified Fluid Other cuts loose from physical life’s gravity and explores who we are becoming in virtual worlds. How will the future evolve? Will we be more active in the digital world or will there always be some sort of hybrid between digital and physical world? Is this hybrid art? Featuring Bogomir Doringer and Audrey Large Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Though the digital world consists of a binary system of zeroes and ones, the outcome is not as binary when it comes to gender. Fluidity is key when it comes to the digital self and this is apparent in many forms of contemporary new media art. How can artists reflect on the gender binary by working in WEB 3 or using digital technologies? Featuring Amber Jae Slooten, Harriet Davey and Jacolby Satterwhite Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Online, we create an alter ego, not bound by any of the physical constraints that exist in our everyday physical life. The question is who will you choose to be in this new iteration of yourself? Will your personality remain true to your IRL self or will elements of it enhance in this digital realm? This digital self can interact with others - or with artificial intelligence - and can become a social being with its own complete identity and character. Artists are exploring the possibilities...

The fascination with mythological, the larger-than-life, often surreal characters is apparent in classic works of art. How do artists use new media art to tell mythological stories? How can these technologies bring the myths closer to us? Featuring Julius Horsthuis, Lu Yang, Jacolby Satterwhite and Marie Alexandre Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is a video-game art? How do artists invite the audience to play? And what do they want the audience to experience or learn when doing so? Featuring Oseanworld, Ksawery Kirklewski and Lu Yang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode explores one of the main motors of change in creating the bridge between digital and physical in the art world: WEB 3, NFTs and the blockchain. Featuring Merel van Helsdingen, Founder & Managing Director of Nxt Museum Oseanworld, Visual artist, musician and the creator of OseanWorld Amber Jae Slooten Digital Artist, Designer and Founder of The Fabricant Jesse Damiani Web 3 expert & Director of Simulation Literacies at Nxt Museum Links for further reading:...

What happens when humans and machines start to feel each other’s language?⁠ Is the computer the modern day performance artist? What is VJing and can it be seen as art? In this episode Viktor Vandervelde enters the world of QR codes. Spoken by machines and integrated by humans, the QR code is an artefact of a new language. In conversation with by artist and coder Yuxi Cao (James) and sound artist Lau Hiu Kong (Lawrence), the creators of , explore how they visualised a language that can only be...

Who is looking at who in a world of facial recognition? What happens when public decision making is outsourced to Artificial Intelligence? In this episode podcast host Viktor Vandervelde is diving into a conversation surrounding the executive control going hand in hand with the rise of surveillance technology in public spaces. He is looking closely at the work Zoom Pavillion by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko, at the fact that surveillance systems are indeed...

Can nature teach us to communicate with the machine living in our pocket? When technology tunes in on nature's communication - what does it hear? Can listening to nature improve our technological and social intelligence? In this episode podcast host Viktor Vandervelde visits artist Thijs Biersteker to discuss the wonders hidden right beneath our feet - and their implications for a better future.  Together, they interrogate the role of the artist and the scientist and how bridges can be built...

Can a higher level of immersion enable a better understanding of complex matter? What does it feel like to witness space? How does Art meeting science expand our realities? In episode three we leave earth behind for a moment and move to space where we dive into the mathematical magic of a black hole. In conversation with Barney Steel, creative director of London based studio Marshmallow Laser Feast, Viktor explores the science behind their work ‘Distortions in Spacetime’ and dives into the...

In the [not so far] future: Will we experience nature digitally? How deep is the 21st century-modern-digital-human relationship with physical nature and can technology bring us closer together with it?  In this episode we dive into the worlds of Habitat, created by Heleen Blanken with sound by Stijn van Beek. Podcast-host Viktor Vandervelde discusses with Heleen Blanken how digital art can be used to conserve and represent nature ~ but also to reflect on humanity’s role in the natural...

How can light be used to reconstruct our perception of space? What happens when we fuse art, mathematical equations and human experience? This second episode of ‘But is I.T. Art?’ explores the role of light in new media art and how it can be used as in creating the illusion of a physical material to reconstruct our surroundings.  Podcast Host Viktor Vandervelde dives into conversation with Matt Clark, the Founder of London-based practice ‘United Visual Artists’ (creators of Topologies #1’...

What does the art of the future look like? What began with moving-image and has since exploded in popularity with the rise of NFTs, only reflects a fraction of digital art can be… In this first episode, we’ll explore new media art; how we can try to define it and how it can be exhibited in a physical space, with help of Merel Van Helsdingen, Founder of Nxt Museum and Bogomir Doringer, Curator of Shifting Proximites the museum’s inaugural exhibition. We dive into the work Connected by Roelof...

Hello world! Enter the realm of new media art. In 7 episodes, But is I.T. art? takes you on a journey to discover art and tech through the works of Shifting Proximities, on show 08/2020 'til 05/2022 at Nxt Museum in Amsterdam. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.