Transhumanist Fantasies with Alexander Thomas
In this episode, Eleanor talks to Alexander Thomas, a filmmaker and academic who leads the BA in Media Production at the University of East London. They discuss his new book about transhumanism, a phi...
13 Mai 202536min
Data Bodies and Arab Futurisms with Laila Shereen Sakr
In this episode, we talk to digital media theorist and artist Laila Shereen Sakr, who also performs under the name VJ Um Amel. We discuss her work making data about the outer world both visible and em...
29 Apr 202525min
Managing the Body through Food Law and Policy with Kyla Wazana Tompkins
In this episode we talk to Kyla Wazana Tompkins, chair of the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality studies at the University of Buffalo. She gives incredible insight into the relationship between...
1 Apr 202538min
Re-imagining Voice Assistants with Stina Hasse Jørgensen and Frederik Juutilainen
To develop voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, companies spend years investigating what sounds like a human voice and what doesn't. But what we've ended up with is just one possibility of the kinds ...
11 Mar 202533min
Critiquing Tech through Comedy with Laura Allcorn
In this episode, we go shopping with artist and performer, Laura Allcorn. We enter into her practice, which is called the Institute for Comedic Inquiry, to learn how she pairs humour and entertainment...
11 Feb 202532min
Surfing the Web in Sync with the Sun with Anne Pasek
In this episode, we talk to Anne Pasek, the Canada Research Chair in Media Culture and the Environment, and an Associate Professor between the Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Envi...
21 Jan 202528min
Using Feminist Chatbots to Fight Trolls With Sarah Ciston
In this episode, we talk to Sarah Ciston, an artist, coder, writer, and critical AI scholar. We asked Sarah to talk about this badass chatbot they created called Ladymouth, which responds to trolls an...
7 Jan 202527min
Resisting Mental Health Ward Surveillance with Stop Oxevision
In this episode we talk to two activists, Hat and Nell, from the organisation Stop Oxevision, who are fighting against the rollout of surveillance technologies used on mental health wards in the Unite...
24 Des 202430min
