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Sunday Pick: Are you feeling emotionally stuck? Here’s How to get past it (w/ Yowei Shaw) | from How to Be a Better Human

What if your hardest emotional challenges could be solved by talking to a stranger? A person who has gone through the exact same situation or something very similar. That’s the premise of Proxy, a podcast that investigates your niche emotional conundrums with host Yowei Shaw. In ... Show More

42m 54s

Yesterday

How to invite creativity into your life | Rose B. Simpson, Debbie Millman

What do you hear when you sit in silence? For artist Rose B. Simpson, that question is the beginning of all art. She comes from a line of ceramic artists stretching back generations and, as part of her multidisciplinary work, she also builds custom lowrider cars. (If that sounds ... Show More

20m 5s

May 1

Why AI is unlikely to become conscious | Anil Seth

We see consciousness in AI the same way we see faces in clouds, says neuroscientist Anil Seth. He explores the all-too-human tendency to project inner life onto machines that are brilliant mimics, not sentient beings, and gives a definitive answer to the urgent question: Will AI ... Show More

17m 6s

Sep 2025

What will the future of art look like? A visual effects artist and a curator answer | Rob Bredow and Nora Atkinson

How will AI and new technology change art? Visual effects artist Rob Bredow, known for his work on Star Wars, and curator Nora Atkinson, who brought Burning Man to the Smithsonian, dive deep into the future of creativity, trading behind-the-scenes stories that show how to blend s ... Show More

26m 42s

Sep 2024

#246 AI and the Future of Art with Kent Keirsey, Founder & CEO at Invoke

AI has rapidly emerged as an incredibly transformative technology, and nowhere has its impact been felt more unexpectedly than in the creative arts. Just a decade ago, few would have predicted that AI would evolve from automating routine tasks to generating paintings, music, and ... Show More

47m 9s

Sep 2024

How to Work with New Technologies

How can curators critically engage with new technologies? What ethical considerations arise when working with AI in the art world? What role do critics and curators play in bridging the gap between technology and artistic expression? In this engaging episode of the Curating Tools ... Show More

39m 20s

Sep 2025

Keith Sawyer: Become more creative by learning to see

This is a preview of a premium episode on Design Better. To listen to the whole episode, head to our Substack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/keith-sawyer The key to creativity isn’t about having brilliant ideas in isolation, but about cultivating our ability to observe the wo ... Show More

28m 14s

Nov 2024

Refik Anadol, Director / Media Artist at Refik Anadol Studio, Visiting Researcher & Lecturer at UCLA's Design Media Arts Department.

Refik Anadol, an internationally renowned media artist and director, joins Behind the Tech to discuss his journey from a childhood fascination with computers in Istanbul to becoming a pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. In this episode, Refik shares his ea ... Show More

49m 31s

Sep 2025

Beyond the Talk: Salome Agbaroji and Samora Pinderhughes on the intersection of art and AI

In a conversation about the intersection of art and AI, spoken word poet Salome Agbaroji and musician Samora Pinderhughes sit down with Elise Hu, host of TED Talks Daily, to talk about their practices, the importance of community art programs and the impact of technology on human ... Show More

39m 33s

Jul 2024

will.i.am on AI – and the future of creativity (from ReThinking with Adam Grant)

You may know will.i.am as the 7-time Grammy-award winning singer, songwriter, producer, and frontman of The Black Eyed Peas. But his interests beyond music have also taken him down a surprising and creative path – from serving as the director of creative innovation at Intel, to b ... Show More

31m 57s

Mar 2024

ENCORE: Digital dilemma: Does AI help or harm the creative community?

It can write emails, essays and even songs. It has created award-winning pieces of art, and it can take simple text prompts and generate eerily life-like videos. That’s right—we’re talking about artificial intelligence. Generative AI programs such as ChatGPT, Sora and Midjourney ... Show More

40m 13s

Nov 2023

Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)

Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto (Yale UP, 2023) puts forward an account of contemporary art’s political ambitions and potential. Surveying such innovations as evidence-driven art, socially engaged art, and ecological art, the book explores how artists have ... Show More

58m 51s

Sep 2025

How AI can help supercharge creativity

Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process. This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.

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