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Mikkel Rørbo, a producer of cultural detritus and interdisciplinary researcher on hyperstition, abductive inference, reality-production and desire. Mikkel joined us in Ljubljana just before the holidays to discuss the concepts and ideas from his text for Unreality Mode, a new double issue of Šum journal. The conversation is hosted by Maks Valenčič 
Find out more about Mikkel’s work:
https://www.sum.si/journal-articles/operative-fiction
https://www.instagram.com/nonstalgianonsense
https://www.are.na/mikkel-rorbo/channels
https://medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at/en/project/sen-sc-ma-mikkel-rorbo/

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Brandon Rosenbluth speaks with Italian artist duo Invernomuto about networked creation, sound as a medium for tracing history, challenging the art institution with expanded formats, cybernetic animism and the emergence of Triton – a creature, a community, a multi-sensorial object and affect engine of new relations. Begin your exchange with Triton⁠ here.
Triton is commissioned by Haus der Kunst München, curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer, and supported by the Italian Council (2024), promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, with the support of PAN and partners including the Singapore Art Museum, TheCube Project Space (Taipei), EPFL (Lausanne), MAO (Turin), Museion (Bolzano) and La Becque (La Tour-de-Peilz).

Joel Anselm Dietz and Edwin Klint Bywater submitted a response article to Anna K. Winters’s “Hegelian e-girl manifesto” in ŠUM #22 Angel Mode. We invited them to Šum Pod to unpack their reply, clarify the core ideas behind the metaphysical Männerbund—literally “bonded men,” often interpreted as a “band of brothers”—and discuss what corrections or updates they propose to the project. We’ll also ask how the metaphysical Männerbund can provide both a means for survival (for projects like the Hegelian e-girl manifesto) and the foundational principles of a new order—philosophy as a lived and embodied social phenomenon.
Check the link to access their response article: “Metaphysical Männerbund’s Hegelian E-girl Apocalypse Fallout Kit.”

This episode is hosted by Maks Valenčič, sound logo is by Oliver Torr, and cover visual by Jaka Neon. This podcast is supported by the City of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia.

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Theo Triantafyllidis, the artist behind multiplayer video game Feral Metaverse joins us on the pod to discuss the ideas, mechanics and the experience of the game, how he translates it to exhibition settings and how combining physical and digital media can address questions of embodiment, identity and collaboration in hybrid realities. We talk also about his wider art practice in which he uses various technologies ranging from game engines, VR, to live action role-play in order to create immersive, interactive environments often shaped by absurd, yet also poetic situations. 
This episode is hosted by Tjaša Pogačar and Ondřej Trhoň, sound logo by Oliver Torr, cover visual by Jaka Neon. The episode features sounds and music from Feral Metaverse. 

More about Theo’s practice:
https://slimetech.org/
https://slimetech.org/works/feralmetaverse
Play Feral Metaverse on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3447150/Feral_Metaverse/
Mentioned:
Mikhail Bakhtin's carnivalesque

Celia Pearce on migration between virtual worlds (e.g. “The Diasporic Game Community: Trans-Ludic Cultures and Latitudinal Research Across Multiple Games and Virtual Worlds”)

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This podcast is supported by the City of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia.
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Curator and writer Nadim Samman talks about his research and curatorial approach, the notion of the Technocene, the esoteric imaginary surrounding contemporary tech, the book and exhibition Poetics of Encryption and, among other things, how their three chapters – Black Site, Black Box, and Black Hole – function as models for where we see ourselves in relation to technology’s encrypted core. 
This episode is hosted by Ondřej Trhoň, edited by Tjaša Pogačar, sound design by Oliver Torr, visual by Jaka Neon. The cover image is based on the work Panorama Cat by Eva & Franco Mattes.

For more:
http://nadimsamman.com
https://www.galerierudolfinum.cz/en/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/poetics-of-encryption/
https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/60035-nadim-samman?srsltid=AfmBOooVJbaIaqfzGE9J7qwQSZ5SOYhDGPLceYVaykyO_WEJik_HstTP
https://tba21.org/rare_earth_en

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This podcast is supported by the City of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia.

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